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Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets Themelets are small, modular pieces of code that you can reuse in multiple themes. Unlike themes themselves, themelets may only...

Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors

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Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors Theme contributors are modules that contain CSS and JavaScript resources and apply them to every page. They are independent from specific...

Embedding Widgets Using Templates

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Embedding Widgets Using Templates You can embed a widget in your theme to make it available on all pages using the chosen template file. When you are embedding a widget, you will need to reference...

Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme

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Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme A theme's thumbnail is the visual representation of how the theme looks when it is applied to a Site. The thumbnail is shown in the theme selection menu...

Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme

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Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme Creating a theme is the first step in theme development. Once you have your own theme, you can deploy it to your Liferay DXP instance, and use it for...

Upgrading a Theme

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Upgrading a Theme Themes developed for previous versions of Liferay DXP must be upgraded in order to be deployed to a new version. The gulp upgrade task updates Liferay version references and theme...

Configuring Menu Displays

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Configuring Menu Displays Use a Menu Display fragment or a Menu Display widget to display and configure a menu display. With either option, you can define the menu display options, levels, and...

Site APIs

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Site APIs Use Liferay’s REST APIs to manage site elements programmatically. This guide introduces the Navigation Menu API and shows how to create, retrieve, update, and delete navigation menus...

Site Appearance

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Site Appearance You can customize the design and functionality of a Liferay site in several different ways. The table below shows the Liferay tools you can use: FeaturesStyle BooksMaster Page...

Style Books

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Style Books

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Frontend Token Definitions

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Frontend Token Definitions Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The visual rules of style books consist of options grouped into categories. For example, in the Buttons category there can be an option called...

Exporting and Importing Style Books

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Exporting and Importing Style Books You can export and import style books to share them between Liferay installations as ZIP files or as Liferay Archive (LAR) files. Exporting a Style Book as a...

Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance

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Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance Available 7.3+ A site's Style Book provides visual rules for applying a consistent experience across its pages. Style books determine various...

Site Navigation

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Site Navigation Liferay DXP separates your site's navigation menus from its page hierarchy to give you the flexibility you need, along with powerful tools to make content easy to access. Here, you...

Managing Page Hierarchies

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Managing Page Hierarchies With Liferay, you can organize pages into hierarchies to achieve the desired structure for your site. This can be done by directly adding child pages to an existing page...

Adding a New Analytics Service

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Adding a New Analytics Service Liferay DXP includes support for Google Analytics and Piwik for analyzing traffic on your site. If you require a different analytics service, you can add it for your...

Configuring Hreflang Meta Data

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Configuring Hreflang Meta Data Hreflang tags are HTML attributes used to identify the language and geographic region targeted by alternative versions of a page. In some cases, these attributes can...

Managing Site URLs

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Managing Site URLs Liferay DXP provides multiple out-of-the-box features for configuring and managing site URLs. Virtual Hosts Site URLs Configure virtual hosts for your Liferay server to connect...

Navigation Menu API Basics

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Navigation Menu API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for Liferay's navigation menus. You can create and edit navigation menus with the API. Start by seeing an example of adding a new...

Navigation Menu Element Types

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Navigation Menu Element Types Navigation Menus have a variety of element types that you can add and arrange in your desired hierarchy. These types include specific pages, Vocabularies, Display...

Using the Breadcrumb Widget

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Using the Breadcrumb Widget This widget provides a way to navigate to related pages or sites through links. From Fragments and Widgets, add the Breadcrumb widget to a page. It's located in the...

Using the Navigation Menus Application

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Using the Navigation Menus Application Use the Navigation Menus application to create custom menus for site pages and content. With it, you can determine which elements are included in a menu, and...

Site Settings

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Site Settings After you create a site, customize it to meet your needs and the needs of your users. A wealth of configuration options and tools are available to create the site you envision....

Configuring Open Graph for Sites

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Configuring Open Graph for Sites Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Open Graph is an Internet protocol that standardizes previews of site content when shared in application contexts that support it, such as...

Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs

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Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs A virtual host connects a domain name (e.g., www.helloworld.com) to a site. This can be a full domain or a subdomain (e.g. developers.helloworld.com). You can...

Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking

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Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking 7.4 U48+/GA48+ Maintaining URL integrity is important for any site. Liferay's Redirection tool provides a convenient and integrated way to manage HTTP...

Tracking 404 URLs

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Tracking 404 URLs With the Redirection application, you can view and manage site requests leading to 404 errors. While enabled, Liferay catalogs each error, so you can assess the cause of the...

Configuring Friendly URL Redirects

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Configuring Friendly URL Redirects Liferay 7.4+ When you update friendly URLs for pages, blogs, and documents, Liferay automatically stores the old URLs. As long as the old URL remains in the...

Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL

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Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL Friendly URLs are readable URLs that can helps users quickly access your site. Each URL must be unique and is appended to https://localhost:8080/web (e.g.,...

Using Alias Redirects

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Using Alias Redirects Alias redirects define absolute source and destination URLs explicitly. Because of their predictability, alias redirects are recommended for most use cases. You can make alias...

Configuring Content Rating Type

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Configuring Content Rating Type Ratings can be represented by different types of icons/labels (like, stacked stars, stars, and thumbs ups). You can configure these rating types for the following...

Site Localization

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Site Localization If you are setting up your Liferay installation for the first time, we recommend reviewing Initial Instance Localization first. Configuring Site Languages You can set your...

Site Settings UI Reference

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Site Settings UI Reference Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, the Site Settings application layout is consistent with other configuration areas, such as Instance Settings or System Settings. The Site...

Changing Site Membership Type

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Changing Site Membership Type A site's membership type determines how freely users may join your site. There are three types of site membership: Open: Users can join and leave whenever they...

Configuring Role and Team Defaults for Site Members

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Configuring Role and Team Defaults for Site Members You can configure the default roles and teams you assign to new site members. Access the Default User Associations option: In Liferay DXP...

Site Membership

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Site Membership Site members can be assigned roles that define site-level privileges. This gives them more permissions than guests, allowing them to collaborate through widgets like message boards...

Adding a Site

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Adding a Site Sites are customizable spaces within Liferay, designed for building personalized digital experiences that engage specific audiences and meet unique organizational goals. Creating a...

Default Site Applications

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Default Site Applications All sites include the below core applications for building personalized digital experiences. You can access them via the Product Menu (Product Menu). The Product Menu can...

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