Blogs

Jamie Sammons | Aug 3, 2021 5:36 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image. To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

David H Nebinger | Jul 21, 2021 6:13 AM

Introduction A client asked me to build a React portlet for them and I was like, "Oh Yeah!" I mean, it's been a while since I built a React portlet and tooling has really changed a lot since then,...

David H Nebinger | Jul 15, 2021 2:51 PM

Introduction So I was recently asked to help build a custom Liferay docker image for a client and there were some specific requirements such as: Should not contain hard-coded credentials, those...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 30, 2021 8:47 PM

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA8 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Download options Choose the best download option suited for your...

David H Nebinger | Jun 17, 2021 6:27 PM

Introduction As many folks know, I'm known for telling people not to look inside the Liferay database itself. It's not always clear what is what in the DB and Liferay has a lot of code around...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 15, 2021 4:20 PM

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA2 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers some minor SEO improvements and many...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 15, 2021 4:17 PM

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 marks the second major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 continues...

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 | Jun 4, 2021 11:11 PM

Introduction Recently I asked some of my teammates for ideas about what to blog about next. Most of the time I take my inspiration from different clients I work with or questions that come up on...

David H Nebinger | May 18, 2021 3:06 AM

Introduction Historically developers have always wanted to be able to control site creation. It's not that Liferay admins are untrusted or anything like that. It is really more the case where...

David H Nebinger | May 14, 2021 3:10 AM

Introduction Liferay has, for a long time, supported RBAC, the role-based access control. It is, of course, backed by the database so (inheritance aside for the moment) a user will be assigned a...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 26, 2021 9:20 PM

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers improvements in data integration and...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 26, 2021 8:25 PM

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 marks the first major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 continues...

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 | Apr 12, 2021 10:29 PM

Introduction So recently a couple of times I've seen folks ask how to send form data somewhere. Some want to trigger remote web service calls, some want to store the data in a different entity or...

David H Nebinger | Apr 8, 2021 4:04 PM

Introduction Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of Upgrade Processes. I've actually written many blogs about Upgrade Processes or using Upgrade Processes:...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 8, 2021 9:33 PM

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Work continues on Liferay Portal CE 7.4 GA1 so look forward to...

David H Nebinger | Feb 13, 2021 6:50 PM

Introduction As of yet, there has been no official word that JDK 11 is supported by the Liferay developer tools. Just like the old delays going from JDK 7 to JDK 8, various third party tools and...

David H Nebinger | Feb 4, 2021 7:31 PM

What is the Mega-Jar? So the Liferay Dev Tools team recently included a new feature that they refer to as a "fat" jar, but I'm giving it the name Mega-Jar! This is a new single dependency that you...

David H Nebinger | Feb 1, 2021 2:02 PM

A community member posted the following plea on the Liferay Community Slack channel. I feel that it makes a great example, so I'm including it here. Hi I am migrating from Liferay 7.0 to Liferay...

David H Nebinger | Dec 22, 2020 9:09 PM

About a year ago, Liferay introduced a new program that I have been actively participating in, Liferay Developer Services. But what is this program? Liferay Support When you are a Liferay DXP...

David Gomez | Nov 19, 2020 9:02 AM

This time, things are a little bit different to last year (in case you haven’t noticed ). Our Developer Conference has been a great platform throughout the past 7 years to strengthen the Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 20, 2020 11:11 PM

At DEVCON 2019 we announced several initiatives aimed at streamlining interactions between us and our community in order to make it easier to find the information needed to aid in a project or to...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 13, 2020 3:59 AM

Commerce is one of our newer open source projects and we’re excited about the feedback we’ve received so far. Our last community release was 2.0 last year, happy to finally share 3.0. Fully...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 13, 2020 3:52 AM

Today marks one of our biggest releases to date. For the first time ever both Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce are being released in tandem and Liferay Commerce is now bundled with Liferay...

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...

Olaf Kock | Sep 8, 2020 6:56 AM

On and around 24 September (depending on your exact timezone), we'll host the very first /dev/24 livestream. Technical information for 24 hours - sleep ahead, and schedule some recovery time...

Jamie Sammons | Aug 13, 2020 7:58 PM

We are happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal CE 7.3 GA5, this is our fifth GA for 7.3 this year following the new rolling release cycle that we adopted and announced earlier this year. As...

David H Nebinger | Aug 12, 2020 3:11 AM

Malcolm Gladwell is often misquoted as saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, you need 10,000 hours in a subject to become an expert. It's a phrase many of us have heard, whether attributed to Gladwell...

David Gomez | Aug 7, 2020 10:11 AM

Maybe you are (or have been at some point) afraid of sharing with the community, submitting a proposal to a Conference, or a User Group meetup because you think that you don’t have anything...

Abigail Pettit | Jul 27, 2020 5:02 PM

We are excited to announce the launch of our Twitter and YouTube accounts, where we will be posting education-related content such as tutorials, feature highlights, and product overviews. Make sure...

Brandon Pettit | Jul 24, 2020 3:14 PM

Hey All! I am happy to announce that the Front-End and Back-End Developer certification exams for Liferay DXP 7.2 have been released! Over the past few months, the Education team has been hard at...

David Gomez | Jul 9, 2020 5:14 PM

This is our fourth GA for 7.3 this year following the new rolling release cycle that we adopted and announced earlier this year. As with previous GAs, this new release is adding several very...

Jamie Sammons | May 21, 2020 6:16 PM

Docker Official images can be found on Docker Hub and can be used for deployments on any system that is running Docker. For more information on configuration options for the image see the overview...

David H Nebinger | May 4, 2020 4:43 PM

Just a quick one today... Liferay stopped releasing Liferay CE/DXP Wildfly bundles after 7.1, so I was recently asked to create a Liferay 7.2 DXP bundle for Wildfly 11. So I followed the...

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...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 20, 2020 5:44 PM

In one of our company-wide meetings last year, I talked about how Liferay was born in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble bursting, and then pivoted to a subscription-driven business in the wake of...

Chema Balsas | Mar 24, 2020 8:09 AM

TL;DR We’re considering consolidating all our UX for writing Rich Text Content around a single Editor to provide a more cohesive and comprehensive experience. We’re committed to study each...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 23, 2020 5:59 PM

Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA2 is our second release using our new Rolling Release cycle. For more information on our new release cycle please find the announcement here. Docker Official images can be...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 23, 2020 5:51 PM

All documentation is being centralized on a new site called learn.liferay.com. Learn represents a large scale effort within Liferay to completely re-envision, curate, and re-write documentation to...

Zsigmond Rab | Mar 20, 2020 3:44 PM

We keep noticing that there is some confusion around the status of Resource Importer and other components, the Site Initializers, Accelerators and Fragments ZIP that people tend to consider as...

Ashley Yuan | Mar 10, 2020 1:32 PM

The new Liferay IntelliJ 1.7.1 plugin support IntelliJ 192 and greater. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Compatible and adapt to JetBrains default Java 11 runtime New...

Samuel Kong | Mar 9, 2020 11:08 AM

The best way to keep your installation of Liferay Portal secure is to always use the latest release - currently Liferay Portal 7.3 GA1. However, we’ve been hearing from you in the community that...

Olaf Kock | Mar 6, 2020 11:51 AM

My originally announced trip to Switzerland has been postponed until after the pandemic, and with it the originally announced community meetup. I'm looking forward to a rescheduled trip in future,...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 28, 2020 12:00 PM

With the recently released Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA1, we are adopting a rolling release cycle for Liferay Portal CE. This means that we will have very frequent stable CE releases which will include...

Ashley Yuan | Feb 27, 2020 4:54 AM

Hello all, the new release of Liferay Workspace and Studio Installers 3.8.0 ga1 has been made available today. Download: Customer downloads: For customers, they can download all of them on the...

Sarai Diaz | Feb 26, 2020 11:37 AM

Since Liferay Portal 7.2, you can use the Personalization Capabilities to define Segments that allows matching the different types of audiences you have identified for your site and deliver...

David H Nebinger | Feb 25, 2020 5:17 PM

My friend, Olaf Kock, recently shared with me that he had struggled with and resolved an issue after moving to Tomcat 9.0.31 when using AJP. Update: What maybe we didn't know, Tomcat 9.0.31 (and...

David H Nebinger | Feb 1, 2020 9:05 AM

Just a quick one this morning... So I'm working on a project for 7.1. With my new love of the target platform, I decide I'm going to enable the 7.1 target platform for my DXP project. Everything...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 31, 2020 4:39 PM

We are happy to announce the availability of Liferay Portal CE 7.3 GA1. This is the first rolling release (announcement about this new release strategy coming soon) for the 7.3 series. What can you...

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 | Jan 23, 2020 3:57 PM

I did an informal poll on the Liferay community Slack channel recently: I was actually kind of surprised by the majority of votes for the "What is the target platform?" option. So, inspired by the...

Dave Truong | Jan 22, 2020 7:31 PM

As we near the first GA of 7.3, one change we've managed to make was to migrate off Soy + Metal.js and fully onto React.js. The story reminded me of how far our frontend infrastructure has evolved...

David H Nebinger | Jan 12, 2020 4:43 PM

Classic Liferay Localization Handling Any developer who has been around for awhile will have some knowledge of how Liferay handled localization for the entities... In your service.xml file where...

David H Nebinger | Jan 3, 2020 3:59 AM

So I've been seeing this a lot recently, so I thought I'd do a quick blog about it... With web contents, we can build structures to provide an organized chunk of data, and then we can define a...

Jamie Sammons | Nov 18, 2019 6:49 PM

Docker Official images can be found on Dockerhub and can be used for deployments on any system that is running Docker. For more information on configuration options for the image see the overview...

Javier Gamarra | Nov 17, 2019 5:02 PM

Liferay 7.2 GA2 brings us many awesome new features but I'm particularly proud of one: GraphQL support. Starting today you can build dynamic JS applications with your preferred framework (which is...

David H Nebinger | Sep 13, 2019 5:32 PM

Recently when I was working on my custom Headless API blog series, I ran into a bit of trouble with my Service Builder-based persistence tier. My SB code was done and working, and I was adding...