Blogs

Yasuyuki Takeo | 23.04.2026 23:49

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...

Peter Richards | 21.04.2026 07:26

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...

Laxit Khanpara | 17.04.2026 10:15

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...

Ben Turner | 15.04.2026 04:28

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...

David H Nebinger | 13.04.2026 18:19

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,...

Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | 07.04.2026 13:14

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...

Ben Turner | 03.04.2026 03:58

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...

David H Nebinger | 20.03.2026 14:22

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...

Ben Turner | 20.03.2026 01:06

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...

Marco Leo | 11.03.2026 12:49

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...

Peter Richards | 10.03.2026 16:16

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...

Peter Richards | 10.03.2026 15:47

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...

David H Nebinger | 03.03.2026 15:39

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...

Anne Durey | 03.03.2026 13:44

  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...

Neil Griffin | 02.03.2026 18:24

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,...

David H Nebinger | 02.03.2026 16:17

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...

Ben Turner | 26.02.2026 04:08

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...

David H Nebinger | 25.02.2026 19:34

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:...

David H Nebinger | 25.02.2026 15:30

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...

David H Nebinger | 20.02.2026 19:10

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...

David H Nebinger | 18.02.2026 17:55

Why (and How) to Contribute to the Liferay Marketplace If you've built reusable solutions for Liferay (modules, fragments, client extensions, object models) and they're sitting in private...

David H Nebinger | 16.02.2026 17:45

This blog started with this slide from Hanna Ilén at SKO 2026:   It shows the paths and all of the courses that we delivered last year in one slide. Practitioners. Application Developers. Content...

David H Nebinger | 16.02.2026 15:00

The key is version alignment. The smoothest path starts by upgrading your CE environment to 7.4.3.132, the latest available CE release. This positions you as close as possible to the DXP codebase...

Jeffrey Handa | 05.01.2026 13:15

One of the objectives of the Liferay Enablement team is to improve the number of learning experiences available for our community and to meet you in the places you are already looking for content. ...

saravanan muniraj | 04.01.2026 18:23

Connecting External Database in Liferay In certain use cases, Liferay portlet applications may need to connect to external databases that exist outside the default Liferay database. This blog post...

Ben Turner | 18.12.2025 04:21

Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone that was able to join our 2025.Q4 release webinars a couple of weeks ago. Sorry for the slight delay, but I'm please to announce that the recording of the webinar is...

Tibor Lipusz | 13.12.2025 12:12

It was great to be there at Liferay DEVCON in Madrid. Now that the recordings are available on YouTube, I decided to write a companion blog post as a follow-up to my session.   In my talk, I was...

José María Muñoz | 12.12.2025 12:26

Once upon a time, there was a wonderful project implemented by a customer that ended up in a failed website impossible to visit due to its poor performance. The End. Although it may sound like a...

David H Nebinger | 10.12.2025 15:37

Great news for everyone who attended (or wished they could attend) Liferay DevCon 2025: the full set of recorded sessions is now live on YouTube! You can watch them all here:...

David H Nebinger | 09.12.2025 16:19

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 | 05.12.2025 13:28

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 | 27.11.2025 09:43

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 | 19.11.2025 23:22

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 | 19.11.2025 17:49

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 | 18.11.2025 18:47

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 | 17.11.2025 15:50

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 | 17.11.2025 14:57

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 | 12.11.2025 12:22

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 | 12.11.2025 05:44

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 | 06.11.2025 08:40

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...