Blogs

Ben Turner | Oct 21, 2025 1:21 AM

Hi everyone, As I continue to get my feet well under the Community table, I'm trying to make liferay.dev a more engaging and generally more useful experience for you all. As of right now (like, a...

Olaf Kock | Sep 16, 2025 2:05 PM

Javascript EventListeners are a great tool and easily introduced in a template, a fragment or any other frontend component. It's quick to write window.addEventListener("scroll", doSomething); and...

Jeffrey Handa | Nov 11, 2024 10:11 AM

Background As the saying goes, the only constant in life is change and while I’m sure Heraclitus wasn’t thinking about software development back in 500 BC, it applies equally as well to Liferay...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2024 6:58 PM

Introduction So I've been a developer for a long time (longer than I care to admit). When I started, being a developer actually meant you had to wear many hats, one of which has included database...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 23, 2024 12:04 PM

Introduction Welcome back to the second part of our series about creating and importing products with Liferay.  In the previous post, we talked about getting started with the Minium accelerator and...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | Aug 14, 2024 6:06 AM

CONTENT & EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Content management features provide support for creating and managing structured web content and digital assets for developers and business users, including a modern...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 5, 2024 8:12 PM

Introduction In a previous post and follow-up, I provided some background on using Liferay's Batch APIs to import products. I realize that for anyone that is new to Liferay's commerce capabilities...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | Jul 8, 2024 9:24 AM

Virtual Instance in Liferay 7.4 In this Blog Today we will discuss about the Virtual Instance in Liferay 7.4 version. What is virtual Instance: - As we know that when we install a new Liferay DXP...

David H Nebinger | Mar 15, 2024 3:02 PM

DEVCON 2024 is happening! Dates: 11-14 November 11 Nov: Welcome Evening Reception - 7:00 pm - 10:00pm 12 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm 13 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm, Party Night starting at 7.30pm 14 Nov:...

Daniel Dias | Feb 5, 2024 2:51 PM

Introduction GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a range of collaboration and project...

Daniel Dias | Jan 31, 2024 7:05 PM

Introduction Kubernetes, commonly referred to as K8s, is an open-source system designed for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is a robust and...

Tibor Lipusz | Dec 14, 2023 10:43 AM

Features Multiple Reindex Modes: Full Reindex, Concurrent Reindex (Blue/Green), and Sync Reindex. High Availability: Continuous service during reindexing operations with select modes. System...

David H Nebinger | Sep 29, 2023 2:48 AM

Introduction Recently I was pulled into a client project that was created for Liferay 7.4 and they needed to share content, structures, templates, documents, etc with multiple sites. Then I found...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | Aug 10, 2023 9:14 AM

Problem: Using custom fields for custom entities? However, the Liferay control panel does not provide a way to determine how many custom fields there are for custom entities.   Solution: Just add a...

Tibor Lipusz | Aug 2, 2023 9:59 AM

What is a Collection Provider? Collection providers group items into collections for display on your pages. Several are available out-of-the-box, or you can create them using the Information...

Tibor Lipusz | Jun 20, 2023 9:34 AM

Starting with Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA81 and Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 81, on-premise deployments can operate with Elasticsearch 8 as the search engine. This capability is provided by leveraging the...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | Mar 24, 2023 6:09 AM

Liferay Objects can generate service layers by simply declaring schema in the Liferay control panel. Liferay makes the Object's content accessible via headless APIs as well. On Notifications with...

David H Nebinger | Mar 13, 2023 5:16 PM

Another quick one today... So when you start your brand spanking new Liferay environment, you will automatically get your test@liferay.com administrator account (or test@<your company email here>...

Neil Harwani | Feb 22, 2023 9:25 AM

How to debug Liferay? Some pointers. – Part 1. Many a times, we only check at specific places and forget other areas while debugging. This small blog acts as a checklist to check and debug Liferay....

David H Nebinger | Jul 22, 2022 2:59 PM

Introduction I've been working with a client to upgrade their Spring portlet wars to Liferay 7.4. And the update is kind of big as we're upgrading Spring, changing to PortletMVC4Spring (needed for...

Maharajan Paramasivan | Apr 27, 2022 1:25 PM

Part-1 | What & Why & When Custom Liferay Framework Create your own Liferay Framework, Understand the possibilities to write your own Liferay framework for any complex custom developed solution...

Mohammed Yasin | Apr 21, 2022 9:19 AM

Liferay provides an option to configure password policy (refer), it provides an option to mention Password Expiry Time. Once the Password is expired then user will not be able to login to the...

Maharajan Paramasivan | Mar 9, 2022 5:18 AM

Part-2 | How to Custom Liferay Framework? Implement your own Custom Liferay Framework over a simple use case and understand the possibilities and capabilities that open up. Continuing on top of the...

David H Nebinger | Mar 2, 2022 3:08 AM

Another quick one this week... A community member reached out and asked for help with a problem on their DXP Cloud site. They were already working with DXP Cloud support, but they had been...

David H Nebinger | Feb 7, 2022 3:50 PM

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure...

Madhukar Kumar | Jan 21, 2022 7:20 PM

What is two-way ssl communication? In two-ways ssl authentication, Client and server need to validate and authenticate each other's identities. This can be summarized with the picture below. How...

David H Nebinger | Jan 13, 2022 5:55 PM

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Sep 10, 2021 8:18 AM

Overview   Search is one of the fundamental Liferay features, which provides users with the possibility to quickly find the content they look for. It’s powerful, pretty much configurable, and...

David H Nebinger | Aug 24, 2021 5:11 AM

Just a quick one... I've just updated my Log Persister project for Liferay 7.3. You can find it under the 7.3 branch: https://github.com/dnebing/log-persist/tree/7.3 For those that aren't aware, I...

Crystal Santos | Jun 23, 2021 12:33 AM

When we think about having different authentication types we commonly think about one fluid and intuitive screen to guide the user through this process. And why is that? It’s probably because...

David H Nebinger | Jun 8, 2021 3:34 AM

So some time ago I wrote the Cluster Details marketplace plugin. Basically you drop this guy into all of your Liferay clusters and you get a nifty little control panel that tells you details about...

David H Nebinger | Apr 21, 2021 5:07 PM

Introduction One of the great advantages I have being known in the community is really the opportunity to meet, talk and work with talented developers and teams. Recently the team at ACSoftware...

David H Nebinger | Sep 15, 2020 6:06 PM

One thing that I commonly see Liferay admins doing is changing the user.timezone JVM parameter to their local timezone. I mean, I get why this might seem like a good idea. I only serve users around...

David H Nebinger | Apr 27, 2020 7:45 PM

Recently I was helping a client who was suffering from performance problems on their site sometimes leading to node instability. After doing a deep dive, I found that most of the problems stemmed...

David H Nebinger | Jan 31, 2020 5:03 AM

Introduction So I get finished which the previous blog, Visiting DynamicQuery, and I shared it with my team. I'm always kind of happy when I get a new blog post done, so I share it with everyone I...

David H Nebinger | Jan 30, 2020 6:12 PM

Introduction If you've used any Liferay entities or ServiceBuilder custom entities, you've likely run into a situation where you've needed to perform a custom query to get a set of results that are...

David H Nebinger | Jan 29, 2020 10:02 PM

One thing I sometimes see is using a given Liferay feature the wrong way in order to do something. Take delivering content to the right users. Liferay actually has a bunch of ways to accomplish...

David H Nebinger | Sep 2, 2019 11:23 PM

Introduction So recently I have been working with Liferay's new Headless APIs... I have a nice React-based SPA leveraging the new headless-delivery and headless-user-admin modules. I'm going to...

David H Nebinger | Aug 27, 2019 5:13 AM

Recently I was one of many trying to help a coworker figure out why a Liferay OOTB feature was failing... We had odd stack traces, null object references when OSGi never should have allowed a null...

David H Nebinger | Jul 26, 2019 9:02 PM

Liferay 7.2 has an updated Service Builder that introduces some changes that we should all be aware of. From a Dependency Injection perspective, not really much is going to change for us when it...

David H Nebinger | Jun 27, 2015 12:48 AM

Let me say that again: Content Creation is Not a Development Activity! Pretty strong statement, but for for those considering Liferay as a platform it's really an important concept, one that lives...