Blogs

Ben Turner | 29 avr. 2026 03:36

Earlier this month, on April 11th, I was lucky enough to travel to Ahmedabad, India, to attend the re-booting of the Liferay User Group in that city, and to co-host the inaugural Liferay...

Ben Turner | 29 avr. 2026 01:23

Hey everyone, We have a temporary issue, that's currently being investigated by our support team, that is impacting the following pages: Blogs Known Vulnerabilities These Search pages are...

Jorge Diaz | 24 avr. 2026 09:00

Why we built preupgrade verifiers If you have ever run a Liferay upgrade on a large database, you know the worst-case scenario: the upgrade starts, runs for a long time, modifies a large amount of...

Laxit Khanpara | 17 avr. 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...

David H Nebinger | 13 avr. 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,...

David H Nebinger | 20 mars 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 mars 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 mars 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...

David H Nebinger | 3 mars 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...

David H Nebinger | 2 mars 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 févr. 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...

saravanan muniraj | 4 janv. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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...

David H Nebinger | 10 déc. 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 | 9 déc. 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...

David H Nebinger | 19 nov. 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 nov. 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 nov. 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...

Ben Turner | 17 nov. 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...

Ben Turner | 12 nov. 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 | 6 nov. 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...

Tibor Lipusz | 27 oct. 2025 09:49

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...

Michael Wall | 14 oct. 2025 10:05

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 | 8 oct. 2025 15:42

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 H Nebinger | 6 oct. 2025 12:01

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 | 1 oct. 2025 13:38

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 | 26 sept. 2025 16:57

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 | 25 sept. 2025 18:41

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 | 16 sept. 2025 23:28

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 | 16 sept. 2025 14:05

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...

David H Nebinger | 11 sept. 2025 14:43

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 | 6 sept. 2025 09:35

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...

Ben Turner | 29 août 2025 01:04

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...