Liferay Headless Content Management System (BETA)

Beta Feature Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+

Liferay’s Content Management System (CMS) centralizes content creation and management in a unified interface, separating content from presentation to enable reuse across sites, pages, and APIs. It supports articles, documents, media, and other content types, with features such as global asset views, space-based organization, and cross-site publishing. Built on Liferay Objects, the CMS provides flexible content structures and a consistent authoring and publishing workflow.

The CMS is object-based, meaning content is managed as reusable objects rather than static pages. Both content and file structures can include custom fields and references to other structures, and workflows are configured directly within each structure. Spaces organize these objects, control visibility, and tailor content to specific teams or projects. This approach provides greater flexibility and efficiency.

The CMS offers a modern, flexible approach to content management, combining conceptual advantages with practical tools for efficient creation, organization, and delivery.

Visibility and Insights

• Consolidated view of content across multiple spaces

• Advanced filtering and search for quick access

• “Shared with Me” shows content explicitly shared with you

• Home and Dashboard highlight other content relevant to you

• Embedded analytics provide both content-specific and contextual insights

• Strong preview capabilities and advanced image editing

• Flexible sharing options

Standardization and Workflow

• Built-in versioning and friendly URLs

• Configurable workflows for content approval and publishing

• Headless-first APIs and object-driven strategies for consistent content management

• REST and GraphQL APIs for full access and portability

Scalability and Extensibility

• Centralized content management decoupled from sites

• Deliver content to multiple channels simultaneously

• Shared categories and tags across spaces for standardized metadata

• Object-driven content supports validations, dynamic actions, and rules-based experiences

• Supports fragments, multi-step forms, and progressive page experiences

Using the CMS

Building on the capabilities above, the CMS provides intuitive tools for day-to-day content creation, organization, and delivery.

• Use the homepage to access shortcuts for creating content, view analytics, and navigate all content, organized content, and files.

• Create and manage content structures in the content structure builder, including content and file types, custom fields, and workflows.

• Organize content into spaces, which include folders, space-specific categories, and favorites in the sidebar. Spaces function like asset libraries and are integrated into the CMS interface.

• Continue using asset libraries as global content repositories. Asset libraries remain available under the global menu and can be connected to sites for content delivery, but do not appear in the CMS interface.

• Apply advanced categorization and tagging, including categories scoped to specific spaces.

• Manage multilingual content and accessibility compliance with built-in tools.

• Deliver content across sites and spaces, supported by updated APIs for headless and hybrid CMS use cases.

This CMS is available across Liferay Self-Hosted, PaaS, and SaaS deployments, and will become the recommended content management solution when it is released.

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