Blogs

David H Nebinger | Dec 9, 2025 4:19 PM

If you’re building headless APIs with REST Builder on Liferay 2025.Q3 or newer, there’s one small configuration detail that can cause big headaches if you miss it. In your rest-config.yaml, you...

Fabian Bouché | Dec 5, 2025 1:28 PM

During the recent Devcon, I've shared with the audience a workaround I've found in order to be able to use Liferay Data Sets for more use cases than the one it supports out of the box....

Daniel Martinez Cisneros | Nov 27, 2025 9:43 AM

Comprehensive Guide to Configuring Liferay Behind a Reverse Proxy (Nginx / Apache) This guide provides a detailed explanation of the essential Liferay properties (portal-ext.properties) required to...

David H Nebinger | Nov 19, 2025 11:22 PM

At Liferay DevCon today, someone asked me a great question: “How do you develop and test a local custom element (a standard Web Component) while still using the Liferay JS global object?” We talked...

David H Nebinger | Nov 19, 2025 5:49 PM

Day 2 of Liferay DevCon 2025 has wrapped, but my favorite day is still ahead: the UnConference. Once again, my good friend Olaf will be running it; if you’ve never experienced an UnConference...

David H Nebinger | Nov 18, 2025 6:47 PM

Today at Liferay DevCon 2025, I had the opportunity to watch two live demos showcasing the brand-new Liferay + Camunda partnership, and they were genuinely impressive. The demos showed not only the...

Gabriel Prates | Nov 17, 2025 3:50 PM

Having a good developer experience is the key to improve productivity, satisfaction and the impact of our work. In the frontend world, Hot Module Replacement is a way to significantly speed up...

Ben Turner | Nov 17, 2025 2:57 PM

Hi everyone, I'm really excited to announce that we have a new approach that you can use to tell us about the things that you think should be in the product. It's called "Product Ideas", and it's...

Peter Richards | Nov 12, 2025 12:22 PM

At DEVCON 2025, I will be delivering a hands-on session focused on building consistent, accessible, and fully responsive navigation using Liferay’s Responsive Menu Fragments. The session is...

Ben Turner | Nov 12, 2025 5:44 AM

Hi Everyone! I'm excited to announce that the release webinar for our final release of 2025 - the 2025.Q4 release - is coming up in just a few weeks, on Wednesday, December 3rd. The webinar will...

Daniel Martinez Cisneros | Nov 6, 2025 8:40 AM

This article explains: Where to place cache configuration files How to reference them in portal-ext.properties Real‑world tuning examples for improving performance   Background: Ehcache in Liferay...

Fabian Bouché | Nov 6, 2025 8:21 AM

Many developers eventually run load tests on their Liferay environments, and a common complaint is that authentication becomes a major performance bottleneck. This happens because password...

Tibor Lipusz | Oct 27, 2025 9:49 AM

Much has changed in the fields of LLMs and AI since we announced our semantic search capability through integration with third-party providers (Hugging Face, txtai) in May 2023. The technologies...

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...

Michael Wall | Oct 14, 2025 10:05 AM

Introduction The Liferay Dynamic Data Lists (DDL) functionality is now deprecated and marked for removal, with Liferay Objects the replacement for DDL. For customers migrating existing DDL Lists to...

YOGESH CHANDRA | Oct 8, 2025 3:42 PM

1. Introduction: Why It’s Time to Rethink Themes Most Liferay customers upgrading from older versions (like DXP 7.1–7.4) face recurring challenges with traditional themes—performance bottlenecks,...

David Oliveira Montenegro | Oct 7, 2025 12:15 PM

When building a site in Liferay, you might be used to the fully-fledged web applications with dynamic content, widgets, and templates. But sometimes, all you need is a simple static site for a...

David H Nebinger | Oct 6, 2025 12:01 PM

Introduction If you’ve been following Liferay’s recent messaging, you’ve probably heard a strong emphasis on avoiding customizations and building with client extensions instead. That’s not an...

David H Nebinger | Oct 1, 2025 1:38 PM

I’m excited to share some great news: the Liferay DXP Bug Bounty Program is now open to the public! My colleague and friend Zsolt Balogh announced this recently, and I couldn’t agree more about how...

David H Nebinger | Sep 26, 2025 4:57 PM

Introduction The Content Signals Policy is a new initiative from Cloudflare, published at contentsignals.org. It extends the familiar robots.txt file so site owners can declare how their content...

David H Nebinger | Sep 25, 2025 6:41 PM

Introduction One of the first things new administrators notice when they get into Liferay is just how many different ways there are to group users. You’ll find Accounts, Organizations, Sites, User...

Ben Turner | Sep 16, 2025 11:28 PM

As I said a couple of weeks ago, Ask has played a hugely valuable role over the years but it's time has come. As of today I'm really excited to announce that the replacement to ask is now live -...

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...

Ben Turner | Sep 16, 2025 1:21 AM

Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone that was able to join either of our 2025.Q3 release webinars last week. Whether you were able to attend or not, but are interested in the content, I'm pleased to...

Hồ Nhật | Sep 13, 2025 11:42 AM

  1. Why choose AMIS instead of Form Fragments or pure Client Extension? When developing complex applications on Liferay, you can use the available Form Fragments or build a custom front-end...

David H Nebinger | Sep 11, 2025 2:43 PM

A long time connection of mine recently asked on the community slack: Do you know how we can force maven central to update the Liferay artifacts? Example here :...

Sukhvinder Singh | Sep 6, 2025 9:35 AM

Layout and composition are the foundation of effective page design. They make your pages easier to read, navigate, and maintain—resulting in a richer and more consistent user experience. With...

Ivica Cardic | Aug 29, 2025 1:11 PM

To kick off the recently announced partnership between Liferay and Camunda, we produced connectors for bringing Liferay into your Camunda business processes. By combining Liferay's digital...

Ben Turner | Aug 29, 2025 1:04 AM

Hi Everyone, if you read my recent post on our upcoming Q3 Release Webinars (and if you haven't yet, remember to register!) you'll remember that I said I'm taking on a much more prominent role in...

Michael Wall | Aug 25, 2025 4:11 PM

Introduction If you have surfaced custom Liferay Object records in the Search Results Widget you will know that the Title of the Search Result record can be changed (Entry Display > Entry Title...

Ben Turner | Aug 21, 2025 5:45 AM

Hi everyone! Firstly, a quick introduction from me - as I've just moved into the brand-new role of Principal Evangelist. You'll be hearing a lot more from me as I really get going with this role -...

Sudhanshu Mishra | Aug 16, 2025 4:18 PM

Before moving forward, we must know, What is CRA and Vite? Why we should always use Vite over CRA? Let's have clarity to these questions first.   1. CRA (Create React App) What it is: CRA is a...

YOGESH CHANDRA | Aug 16, 2025 7:13 AM

Calling Liferay DXP Headless APIs (REST or GraphQL) from the frontend using Fragments, Custom Elements, or Client Extensions is easy and powerful. But there’s a hidden danger: credentials are often...

David H Nebinger | Aug 15, 2025 1:59 PM

Introduction Since Liferay has published https://learn.liferay.com/w/dxp/development/tooling/liferay-workspace/upgrading-to-jakarta, I think that means it's okay for me to blog about it. In my...

David H Nebinger | Aug 8, 2025 5:23 PM

Between major versions of Liferay, the internal structure of Service Builder (SB) modules can change—sometimes subtly, sometimes significantly. These changes might affect how services are...

Michael Wall | Aug 7, 2025 5:07 PM

Introduction This blog post is to introduce a full end to end proof of content (POC) to integrate Liferay DXP with RabbitMQ for asynchronous message processing using custom services and Client...

Michael Wall | Jul 30, 2025 2:16 PM

What is it? The SAML Restore Tool is a configuration driven custom Gogo Shell command that can be used to restore a non-prod environments SAML Configuration e.g. after a prod backup is restored...

Michael Wall | Jul 29, 2025 4:35 PM

If you have enabled the GDPR Compliance for Cookies feature then any custom code that creates cookies should check to see if the user has opted out of the cookie type, before creating the cookie....

David H Nebinger | Jul 24, 2025 4:19 PM

Introduction My blog/project ideas typically come from client and community questions about how to do something in Liferay. However, in this case, I was inspired by a recent post on SlashDot about...

Michael Wall | Jun 30, 2025 3:44 PM

As many of you will already know, Liferay has been shipping Glowroot as part of the Liferay DXP bundles and Docker images from the 2023.Q4 Quarterly Release onwards. For customer who are using a...