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Dummy Factory was born inside Liferay Support. Customers don't file tickets about empty sites. What lands in the queue is the site that just hit 50,000 users, the organization tree with 12 levels of nesting, the message board thread with a thousand replies. To reproduce any of that on an engineer's laptop, you need the data. Hand-crafting it was a full day's work. The tool grew out of that...

There is a popular narrative right now that AI-assisted development is like a "hot knife through ice cream"—effortless, magical, and instant. But as any engineer who has had to support "magic" in production knows: if you can't debug the magic, you don't own the stack. I am an Inside Sales Engineer. My job is to bridge the gap between complex engineering and business...

Introducing create-liferay-react-cx create-liferay-react-cx is an npm package that helps you quickly create a ready-to-use React Client Extension for Liferay. Run this command to get started: npx create-liferay-react-cx or npm create liferay-react-cx Why This Tool? While working with Liferay, I noticed that setting up a React Client Extension repeatedly...

Hi everyone, Thanks as always to everyone that joined our Q1 release webinar a couple of weeks back. I'm pleased to let you all know that the recording of the webinar is now available for you to replay at you leisure! You can find the recording on Learn here, and there you will also find a link to the PDF of the slides. Agenda Release Timeline Refresher of Quarterly...

If you’ve been following Liferay for the last few years, you should have noticed the continuing and increasing focus on low-code and no-code capabilities in the platform. Features like Objects, Fragments, and Client Extensions aren’t just side tools anymore, they’re becoming a core part of how solutions are built on the platform. They’re faster. They reduce complexity. And in many cases,...

DEVCON 2026 is officially happening November 2-5, and you don’t want to miss it!  Join the Liferay community for three days of cutting-edge tech, real-world insights, and meaningful connections with developers, architects, and digital leaders from around the globe. London is Calling From historic landmarks like Big Ben and Tower Bridge to vibrant neighborhoods, world-class food, and an...

Hi everyone, Over the last week, we’ve been listening closely to your feedback on the new Liferay DXP Free Tier. Some of the conversations, particularly around database limitations, highlighted a gap between what we intended to do and how the software actually behaved. The Free Tier exists to lower the barrier to entry for Liferay. If we’re creating friction instead of removing it, we...

You might have seen the 2026.Q1.0 breaking changes documentation or even the MAINTENANCE labels in the UI when using 2026.Q1.0 and navigating through Asset Libraries, Web Content, or Documents and Media and wondered what this actually means. Does it mean you have to migrate?   Is there a migration path defined?   Is your platform going to stop working?   What should you do now? ...

In Marco Leo's most recent blog - One Platform, One Liferay: The 2026 Release Model - we announced that in 2026 instead of releasing separate products for non-subscribers (Liferay Portal CE) and subscribers (Liferay DXP) we've moved to a single unified, modular platform, available for everyone. If you're a Subscriber, there's no change in how you obtain and activate Liferay DXP, but for...

At Liferay, we've always believed that innovation is meant to be accessible. For decades, our open source heritage has been the heartbeat of our technology, shaped by a vibrant community of creators, developers, and organizations around the world. Now, we're taking the next step in how we deliver Liferay. Starting with the 2026.Q1 release, we are evolving from separate Community Edition...

Scaling Liferay Fragments: How AI and Automation Accelerated My UX Library My Liferay Fragments repository has been a personal lab for UI experimentation for quite some time, but it gained wider visibility when it was highlighted during my DEVCON talk on Responsive Navigation in Liferay. While that talk focused on a specific set of menu fragments, the repository has since undergone a...

From Shell Scripts to Python: Streamlining Liferay DXP Orchestration As Liferay developers, we often build "quality of life" scripts to handle the repetitive parts of our workflow. I’ve been using my own set of internal tools since early 2024 to manage DXP versions and environment snapshots. In November 2025, I decided it was time to share them with the community. Originally a...

Today we released Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.22-LTS. If you are currently running: - 2025.Q1.20-LTS   - 2025.Q1.21-LTS   You should update to 2025.Q1.22-LTS as soon as possible. Why the Urgency? The 2025.Q1.21 release (which was meant to fix problems in Q1.20) was pulled due to issues identified in both: Liferay Commerce Liferay Objects These issues have been...

  Temos o prazer de anunciar o primeiro Liferay Marketplace App Hackathon presencial em São Paulo! É o momento de reunir desenvolvedores de todo o Brasil para um dia de codificação intensa. O Liferay Marketplace é o destino oficial para apps, temas e soluções que expandem os limites do Liferay DXP. Essa é sua oportunidade de ter um Fragmento publicado no Marketplace, acelerar seu...

This is a Release Announcement for a Liferay Faces Update released in October, 2025 for compatibility with the following: Liferay DXP 2025.Q1 (see: FACES-3712) PrimeFaces 15.0.6 (Liferay Patched, see: FACES-3718) Mojarra 2.3.21 (Liferay Patched, see: FACES-3697) To generate a JSF portlet: mvn archetype:generate \   -DarchetypeGroupId=com.liferay.faces.archetype \  ...

A recent TechCrunch article described what some are calling the "SaaSpocalypse," with one investor arguing: "The barriers to entry for creating software are so low now thanks to coding agents, that the build versus buy decision is shifting toward build in so many cases." That's not an unreasonable claim. AI coding agents are improving rapidly. The cost of...

Hi Everyone! It's that time already - the 2026.Q1 LTS (Long-Term Support) release of Liferay DXP is coming on March 18th. To mark that event we're holding our usual release webinar, just a week after that on Wednesday, March 25th. Because this is the first release of the year, it is also our Long-Term Support release - meaning that it comes with 5 years of support for...

A community member recently asked for the easiest way to call Liferay Headless APIs from Java without generating a REST client or making outbound HTTP calls. The answer is surprisingly simple: Liferay already does this internally for FreeMarker templates via the restClient helper. In this post, we’ll walk through how that works, starting with RESTClientTemplateContextContributor, and then build...

Every two weeks, I host an “Ask Me Anything” session for the Liferay community. And every two weeks, I’m reminded of something: The people who show up get real value. The people who don’t… are often the ones who need it most. Let’s talk about that. What the AMA Actually Is This isn’t a webinar. It’s not a presentation. There are no slides. It’s an...

I recently ran into an issue that's easy to reproduce and surprisingly confusing the first time you see it. I had a Liferay workspace that was working perfectly. It included both Service Builder and REST Builder modules. The workspace plugin version was 13.1.0, and the target platform was 2025.Q1.20. Everything compiled cleanly. Life was good. Then I decided to upgrade the workspace...