Liferay for beginners: Enterprise grade Portal in easy steps

Install liferay on Mac by downloading liferay 7.4, ensuring Java 11, extracting the bundle, and running from the bin directory. The first run creates a development hypersonic database.

Explore the Liferay directory structure, including data, file repository, library home, Elasticsearch deployment in a separate JVM, and folders for models, configs, marketplace, and portal setup.

Create an enterprise portal prototype with Liferay by building a website featuring a logo, video, media page, contact page with a map, a scheduling page, and a Google form flow.

Learn to customize your Liferay homepage by changing the logo, updating look and feel, adding video and content fragments, and publishing changes in an enterprise grade portal.

Learn to set up pages and menus in Liferay by adding blank pages, publishing them, creating submenus, managing permissions, and rearranging the page hierarchy for guest and admin views.

Create a contact page in Liferay using fragments and a web content, publish the content, and display it with a content display widget, then embed and center the map.

Master Liferay's document and media features to add images, videos, and content, and publish them on the media page. Learn about image fragments, folders, and guest permissions to control access.

Integrate Calendly as an external scheduling tool into a Liferay portal and embed the calendar with the provided code. Publish to let guest users see and schedule meetings.

Create a contact form using Liferay Forms, manage fields such as name, email, product type, and engagement type, and publish the page to replace Google Forms on your site.

Create vocabulary, categories, subcategories, and tags in liferay, assign them to documents, and organize content by departments and sales for targeted retrieval.

Enable and configure the forum feature in Liferay, create categories and threads with a message boards page, and manage permissions and guest views for discussions.

Explore localization in Liferay by creating multilingual content, using language selectors, translating menus, and publishing pages in multiple languages.

Learn to add blogs to your Liferay site using blocks, publish new entries with images, subtitles, categories, and tags, and display them with blog widgets, aggregators, and recent bloggers.

Learn to implement site search in Liferay using a global template, enabling federated search across blogs, documents, and pages with permission-based results and time-based filters.

Explore cross-device page simulation for desktop, tablet, and mobile to preview your site, configure search engine metadata and open graph previews, and integrate Google page speed insights for optimization.

Add a sitemap to your Liferay website by creating a segment page, adding a child page with a blank template, and publishing the sitemap with a segment widget.