Web Publishing

Beyond managing existing content, Liferay CMS lets users easily create and manage everything from a simple article of text and images to full functional web sites. Web publishing works alongside Liferay Portal's larger collection of applications, which means that you can add in shopping cart functionality, visitor polls, web forms, community collaboration tools and more.

Everything is done with our collection of easy-to-use tools with familiar rich-text editors and intuitive interface.

Lufthansa Flight Training School published its employee portal with working employee store and shopping cart using Liferay CMS

Document Library & Image Gallery

Liferay CMS provides one central place to aggregate and manage all your content. Each community within Liferay Portal gets its own separate Document Library and Image Gallery.

Both are equipped with customizable folders and act as a web-based shared drive for all your team members, no matter where they are. Because content is accessible only by those authorized by the administrator, each individual file is as open or as secure as you need it to be.

Integration with Microsoft Office®

Liferay CMS features integration with Microsoft Office®, which means that when you update files and documents from your local drive, they can be automatically uploaded to your document repository online.

Liferay CMS makes use of publicly available SharePoint® protocols to allow users to open, save, version, lock, and share documents directly between Liferay and Microsoft Office®. This opens up new ways of integrating desktop workflow with web-based collaboration and document storage. For example, a marketing team working on a new product campaign can store Powerpoints, brochures, copy and graphics in a Liferay document library and brainstorm ideas using collaboration tools such as IM, Wiki, and Forums.

Multiple File Uploads

Instead of adding files one by one, users can upload multiple at a time to the document library, image gallery and any of the other tools that allow for document attachments.

In the Document Library, you can convert a file's format upon both upload and export (ie, a word document into a pdf).

Easy Integration

If there are applications with valuable content that needs to be accessed, rest assured that our open SOA development strategy makes Liferay Portal one of the best technologies to use for application integration.

Liferay Portal can speak to your HR system, Accounting software or any other system to pull relevant information as you need it.

World Vision leveraged Liferay Portal's open and flexible framework to pull in technology for dynamic mapping and Enterprise Content Management.

Multi-Tier Search

Users can search for relevant information throughout an entire portal, within a community, within specific portlets such as Wikis, Message Boards, among others, and even in external integrated applications.

Out of the box, there is the choice of using either Amazon's OpenSearch or SOLR. Other search engines can be integrated easily.

Asset Publisher

While Liferay Portal pulls together all your content, this tool allows you to publish any piece of content in your portal, either through a set of publishing rules or by manually selecting it.

For example, if you wanted to publish all content that has the tag "sales", you could set up an Asset Publisher portlet to do that. Any time a user posts anything with that tag, whether it be a document, an image, a blog entry, Wiki page, a message board posting or a Bookmark to Liferay's home page, that asset would get published in the Asset Publisher portlet.

Drag-and-Drop Site Maps

As a site gets larger, users appreciate the convenience of automatically generated site maps that are dynamic enough to let users rearrange site pages with a simple drag and drop

Dynamic Tagging

Users can Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.

One-Click Page Creation

Liferay saves content creators and publishers the trouble of having to configure each new page they create. This feature allows administrators to create and save page templates that define the elements (content, applications, portlets) that will live in a page and how they will be laid out.

User-Driven Workflow & Approval

Not only is there embedded workflow for content, Liferay Portal allows users to create their own workflow and define the number of approval paths based on their own unique business requirements and operational needs.

For example, administrators can now implement an approval process for new document uploads before they appear in the Document Library.

Web Content Structures and Templates

Liferay Portal allows users to easily create predefined and reusable structures, templates, and page layouts for content. Those with limited HTML and CSS skills will only need to enter text and upload images via rich text editors--their content is automatically styled based on the structure and templates they are using at the time.

Structure Comments

Liferay Portal allows administrators to add special notes to web content structures and templates to instruct content authors and editors on how they should be used.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Liferay CMS automatically updates sitemap information and makes new pages instantaneously searcheable by major search engines.

Easy Rich Text Editors

Content creation and publishing in Liferay CMS is simple and straight forward. A rich text editor with spell check and text styling enables anyone to create content without knowing how to code as if they were editing a Word document. Those who do know how to code can edit in the same editor from a source code mode.

Workspace Publishing

Organizations worldwide use Liferay Portal to publish full intranets, extranets, collaboration platforms and other workspaces to meet their functional needs.

Leveraging the system of communities and organizations, each department or team can have its own secured space equipped with a set of features and look and feel of its choosing. Each space has its own CMS and document library that can be supplemented by any of Liferay Portal's other collaboration or administrative tools and applications. They can even share documents and information between departments.

• Read more about how AutoZone leveraged Liferay Portal for its employee intranet.

Live Page Editing and Scheduling

If you need to alter what you've created and published, you can do this live. Liferay CMS lets you edit and preview updates on a live site in real-time without affecting what the public sees until you're absolutely ready. You can do this with individual pages, entire communities, and full portals.

If you don't want to publish right away, you can tell Liferay Portal when to publish, what to publish and where to publish it to. It'll even let you revert back to older versions of your work.

Dynamic Virtual Hosting

After setting up a website, intranet or other Liferay creation, dynamic virtual hosting allows you to use this same installation of Liferay Portal to spin-off an infinite number of other portals, each with its own unique URL, look and feel and functionality.

For example, a music site can run infinite numbers of sub sites for various musicians. Each musician would get its own site (a mini portal) with a login for their fans, unique URL and theme.

All this is easily managed via the UI.

Multi-language Support

International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 30+ languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.