Blogs

Peter Richards | 23/07/2026 07:13

The Evolution of the Library When I wrote about scaling Liferay fragments with AI and automation earlier this year, the repository was already transitioning from a experimental lab into a...

Ankit Hadiyal | 06/07/2026 17:40

A Problem Every Liferay Developer Has Faced If you have worked on a Liferay DXP project with more than a few custom modules, this scene will feel familiar. You deploy all your modules together....

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...

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...

Olaf Kock | 16/09/2025 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...

Jeffrey Handa | 11/11/2024 10:11

Background As the saying goes, the only constant in life is change and while I’m sure Heraclitus wasn’t thinking about software development back in 500 BC, it applies equally as well to Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 06/09/2024 18:58

Introduction So I've been a developer for a long time (longer than I care to admit). When I started, being a developer actually meant you had to wear many hats, one of which has included database...

Jeffrey Handa | 23/08/2024 12:04

Introduction Welcome back to the second part of our series about creating and importing products with Liferay.  In the previous post, we talked about getting started with the Minium accelerator and...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | 14/08/2024 06:06

CONTENT & EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Content management features provide support for creating and managing structured web content and digital assets for developers and business users, including a modern...

Jeffrey Handa | 05/08/2024 20:12

Introduction In a previous post and follow-up, I provided some background on using Liferay's Batch APIs to import products. I realize that for anyone that is new to Liferay's commerce capabilities...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | 08/07/2024 09:24

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...

Daniel Dias | 05/02/2024 14:51

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...

Tibor Lipusz | 14/12/2023 10:43

Features Multiple Reindex Modes: Full Reindex, Concurrent Reindex (Blue/Green), and Sync Reindex. High Availability: Continuous service during reindexing operations with select modes. System...

David H Nebinger | 29/09/2023 02:48

Introduction Recently I was pulled into a client project that was created for Liferay 7.4 and they needed to share content, structures, templates, documents, etc with multiple sites. Then I found...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 10/08/2023 09:14

Problem: Using custom fields for custom entities? However, the Liferay control panel does not provide a way to determine how many custom fields there are for custom entities.   Solution: Just add a...

Tibor Lipusz | 02/08/2023 09:59

What is a Collection Provider? Collection providers group items into collections for display on your pages. Several are available out-of-the-box, or you can create them using the Information...

Tibor Lipusz | 20/06/2023 09:34

Starting with Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA81 and Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 81, on-premise deployments can operate with Elasticsearch 8 as the search engine. This capability is provided by leveraging the...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 24/03/2023 06:09

Liferay Objects can generate service layers by simply declaring schema in the Liferay control panel. Liferay makes the Object's content accessible via headless APIs as well. On Notifications with...

David H Nebinger | 13/03/2023 17:16

Another quick one today... So when you start your brand spanking new Liferay environment, you will automatically get your test@liferay.com administrator account (or test@<your company email here>...

Neil Harwani | 22/02/2023 09:25

How to debug Liferay? Some pointers. – Part 1. Many a times, we only check at specific places and forget other areas while debugging. This small blog acts as a checklist to check and debug Liferay....

David H Nebinger | 22/07/2022 14:59

Introduction I've been working with a client to upgrade their Spring portlet wars to Liferay 7.4. And the update is kind of big as we're upgrading Spring, changing to PortletMVC4Spring (needed for...

Maharajan Paramasivan | 27/04/2022 13:25

Part-1 | What & Why & When Custom Liferay Framework Create your own Liferay Framework, Understand the possibilities to write your own Liferay framework for any complex custom developed solution...

Mohammed Yasin | 21/04/2022 09:19

Liferay provides an option to configure password policy (refer), it provides an option to mention Password Expiry Time. Once the Password is expired then user will not be able to login to the...

Maharajan Paramasivan | 09/03/2022 05:18

Part-2 | How to Custom Liferay Framework? Implement your own Custom Liferay Framework over a simple use case and understand the possibilities and capabilities that open up. Continuing on top of the...

David H Nebinger | 07/02/2022 15:50

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure...

David H Nebinger | 13/01/2022 17:55

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

David H Nebinger | 24/08/2021 05:11

Just a quick one... I've just updated my Log Persister project for Liferay 7.3. You can find it under the 7.3 branch: https://github.com/dnebing/log-persist/tree/7.3 For those that aren't aware, I...

David H Nebinger | 08/06/2021 03:34

So some time ago I wrote the Cluster Details marketplace plugin. Basically you drop this guy into all of your Liferay clusters and you get a nifty little control panel that tells you details about...

David H Nebinger | 21/04/2021 17:07

Introduction One of the great advantages I have being known in the community is really the opportunity to meet, talk and work with talented developers and teams. Recently the team at ACSoftware...

David H Nebinger | 27/06/2015 00:48

Let me say that again: Content Creation is Not a Development Activity! Pretty strong statement, but for for those considering Liferay as a platform it's really an important concept, one that lives...