Blogs

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...

Samuel Kong | Mar 18, 2020 7:39 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 11, 2020 8:59 AM

If you're following this series for a while, you might not have expected a new chapter with just a minor release of Liferay Portal 7.3.1 CE, GA2. I had just released chapter 6 for 7.3.0 GA1 -...

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,...

Sarath Chandra | Mar 3, 2020 4:06 PM

I'm recently faced with a challenge of understanding all the packages that are exported by the Liferay portal. Liferay comes with a lot of inbuilt OSGI modules and it is quite difficult to find...

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...

Tim Telcik | Feb 19, 2020 3:17 PM

Overview Liferay 7.1 uses the Quartz Scheduler to schedule jobs for running background tasks. Liferay administrators and developers sometimes require a live (runtime) view of the scheduled jobs...

Jorge González | Feb 18, 2020 3:33 PM

We’d like to dig deeper into one of the features delivered for the 7.3 GA1 release. Liferay now supports Open Graph meta tags out of the box and provides previews both for Open Graph and search...

Carlos Lancha | Feb 5, 2020 3:36 PM

TL;DR Continuing with our efforts to make Liferay Portal technology agnostic - as David Truong explained us in his post The State of Frontend Infrastructure - all jQuery usages have been removed,...

Olaf Kock | Feb 3, 2020 8:51 PM

Two things in life are certain. And one of them is what this article is about ;) Now that Liferay CE 7.3.0 is out and still offers Widget Pages, I'm happy to present a long standing optional...

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...

Olaf Kock | Jan 28, 2020 11:56 AM

If you're following Liferay's Forums, Slack, and other locations where questions regarding Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP are asked and answered, you'll find that there's one question coming up...

Olaf Kock | Jan 27, 2020 11:46 AM

An episode that was recorded together with episode 62, but got a bit lost (well, I admit - it was just sitting on my disk). But here we are: David shares four of his favorite horror stories - those...

Olaf Kock | Jan 24, 2020 8:57 AM

For this episode I spoke with Andrew Jardine, Community Contributor Award winner for 7 years in a row about his history with Liferay, the community, how to improve it and, of course, his new...

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...

Tim Telcik | Jan 21, 2020 8:42 AM

Overview This article outlines how to configure EHCache cache event logging in Liferay 7.1. Scenario We want to log and monitor EHCache cache events in a clustered environment. This is helpful when...

Neil Griffin | Jan 16, 2020 1:21 AM

On 12/20/2019, Liferay released updated versions of Liferay Faces modules featuring support for the upcoming 7.3 release of Liferay Portal. For more information see the "Liferay Faces Bridge Ext"...

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...

Mayur Patel | Jan 11, 2020 9:15 AM

Introduction We can customize Elastic Search in Liferay, so that whenever a user is searching for a keyword in Liferay then the search results would not only display the results for that search...

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...

Mohammed Yasin | Dec 12, 2019 11:33 AM

By default Liferay does not encrypt the password at client side as with SSL already Data will be encrypted but some security audit demand for password to be encrypted before submission . So we...

Neil Griffin | Dec 10, 2019 11:05 PM

Thin WAR Artifacts Sometimes WAR artifacts are quite thin, meaning they are less than 1MB in size and most of their dependencies are deployed as OSGi modules. In other words, these types of WAR...

Neil Griffin | Dec 7, 2019 9:10 PM

The following versions of PortletMVC4Spring were released on December 7, 2019 AD: Version Description 5.2.0 For use with Spring Framework 5.2.x (tested with 5.2.2.RELEASE) Release Notes 5.1.1 For...

Álvaro Saugar | Dec 1, 2019 10:04 PM

//La versión en español del artículo se puede encontrar en: Otro año de LUGSpain It may seem difficult to believe, but another year has gone by. As usual, the Liferay team booked a session during...

Álvaro Saugar | Dec 1, 2019 9:47 PM

//The english version of this article can be found here: Year summary of LUGSpain Parece mentira pero ya ha pasado otro año más. Como suele ser costumbre, el equipo de Liferay reserva la tarde del...

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...

Takeo Yasuyuki | Nov 13, 2019 8:25 AM

Damascus is a CRUD scaffolding tool for Liferay. Damascus generates services and web interfaces for both user and admin (PanelApp) with CRUD functionalities. ...

Olaf Kock | Nov 12, 2019 10:17 AM

I've taken the opportunity to meet David Nebinger, the most prolific forum poster and blogger for Liferay. And as we both are often stumbling about similar questions - in the community as well as...

Ashley Yuan | Oct 17, 2019 9:48 AM

Hello guys, the new installers which contian serveral bug fixes are ready. Download Customer downloads: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page....