Blogs

Daniel Carrillo Broeder | Jun 4, 2025 1:07 PM

The purpose of this post is to extend the image provided by Liferay PaaS to include a custom module — ngx_brotli, a widely-used compression module that improves web performance by reducing response...

David H Nebinger | Oct 11, 2024 1:07 PM

Many weeks ago I blogged about how I could no longer add images to blogs and this was preventing me from publishing some entries I had which needed screen shots... We have since fixed that issue,...

David H Nebinger | Oct 1, 2024 7:34 PM

Introduction Goodbye MySQL? No, don't worry, Liferay isn't dropping support for MySQL, don't start panicking just yet. Liferay has been transitioning new PaaS and new/existing SaaS systems from...

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 | May 16, 2024 2:47 AM

Just a short one today... I happened to be researching Object Validations and I saw an interesting note posted here:...

David H Nebinger | Apr 19, 2024 4:16 AM

In my last blog, Creating a React Client Extension, I basically built a React-based SPA that was hosted on Liferay. And I got to thinking that we really aren't sharing just how great Liferay is to...

David H Nebinger | Apr 16, 2024 4:25 PM

Introduction I was recently asked whether it is possible to migrate from HCL DX™ to Liferay DXP. I think the expected response was "no", because they seemed shocked when I said it was possible....

David H Nebinger | Apr 14, 2024 4:11 PM

Introduction In my recent blog, Introduction to Liferay Objects, I used Objects and Liferay OOTB facilities to have a list of Course Registrations and UI interfaces for submitting a new Course...

David H Nebinger | Apr 3, 2024 1:46 PM

Introduction So I've been working on my Objects Rule! series and have been working on an app I plan on showing off soon, but I realized that there is probably a gap explaining, well, how do you get...

David H Nebinger | Mar 18, 2024 1:53 PM

Introduction In a recent blog, Intro to Liferay Objects, I created a new application for the Masterclass site for submitting and approving course registrations entirely using OOTB features of...

David H Nebinger | Mar 15, 2024 7:44 PM

Introduction Wow, I've blogged about Liferay Objects a lot lately. Talked about them too. Also am working on developing materials for learn.liferay.com about Objects. But one thing I haven't seen...

David H Nebinger | Feb 29, 2024 8:37 PM

Introduction I was recently in a meeting reviewing some FreeMarker templates that were extracting web contents using a structure, parsing and processing the data, and rendering an output. Basically...

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...

David H Nebinger | Dec 4, 2023 6:32 PM

Introduction So I was recently working with a team that was completing an upgrade assessment for a client wanting to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.4. A big chunk of the work in upgrading the client was...

Yash Thakare | Nov 16, 2023 5:19 AM

Setting Up Glowroot on LXC-SM, Liferay Cloud Fabian's blog illustrates Glowroot setup in an on-premises environment here. Now, let's outline the steps for integrating Glowroot within Liferay's...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Oct 20, 2023 9:03 AM

This article explains how to deploy npm packages bundled with webpack that export and import stuff through the standard ECMAScript modules feature. This is a sequel of the Moving from AMD to...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Aug 11, 2023 10:12 AM

This article explains how to leverage the new ECMAScript modules feature (from now on will be referred to as ESM), Custom Element and Import Map Entry client extensions in Liferay DXP to achieve...

David H Nebinger | Aug 8, 2023 8:04 PM

Introduction So if you really want to set off a firestorm with geeks like myself, step into the group and say "VI is better than Emacs!" Be sure to turn and walk away quickly or you might find...

Chirag Lakhamani | Mar 24, 2023 4:28 PM

Liferay DXP 7.4 supports integration with Azure Blob Storage for storing and managing files in the cloud. This integration allows users to take advantages of the scalability and durability of Azure...

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...