Liferay Digital Experience Platform Reviews & Product Details

I like Liferay because it makes it easier to build customized websites and business applications. Features like reusable fragments, content management, and API integrations help streamline development and save time. I also appreciate the user management tools and the range of customization options, which make it easier to adapt the platform to different business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay can be a bit challenging to learn at first, especially when you’re dealing with customizations and integrations. Troubleshooting problems can sometimes take a while, and the overall configuration process could be more straightforward. Clearer, more complete documentation and a simpler development experience would make it much easier to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay DXP offers an exceptional enterprise ecosystem for building modern portals, intranets, and customer-facing platforms. What stands out most are its powerful Headless REST APIs and Liferay Objects, which make it easy to create custom data entities and relationships, then expose them through headless endpoints without requiring heavy backend development.

The modern Client Extensions architecture has also significantly streamlined CI/CD deployments and helped decouple custom microservices (such as Spring Boot and React) from the core portal. On top of that, its role-based access control (RBAC), multi-site management, and workflow automation capabilities are among the most robust I’ve seen for enterprise use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of the depth and breadth of its features, there’s a noticeable learning curve for newcomers—especially when getting comfortable with OSGi module life cycles and moving toward the newer Client Extensions architecture. The documentation around advanced customizations and headless integration scenarios could also go further, particularly by including more real-world enterprise examples. That said, both the community and the official support forums have been improving steadily over the last several releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Liferay DXP’s flexibility and extensibility, especially its ability to build enterprise portals and digital experiences with features like user and role management, content management, workflow automation, and integration with external systems. Its modular architecture and support for technologies like React and Angular make it easier to develop scalable, customized solutions while maintaining security and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One drawback of Liferay DXP is its steep learning curve, especially when working with complex configurations, upgrades, and customizations. Some tasks require understanding Liferay-specific concepts and APIs, and major version upgrades can involve compatibility issues and additional effort. Improving documentation and simplifying the upgrade process would make the platform easier to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay provides a powerful and flexible platform for building enterprise-level digital experiences. I particularly like its modular architecture, customization capabilities, and features such as Service Builder, workflows, and headless APIs. The Liferay India User Meetup was a great opportunity to learn from the community, explore practical use cases, and connect with professionals working with Liferay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay has a wide range of features, but the initial learning curve can be challenging, especially for new developers. Some configurations and customizations require a good understanding of the platform. More beginner-friendly documentation, practical examples, and simplified troubleshooting guides would make the development experience even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to create content and pages, and to change content when needed. I can customize pages with fragments and widgets, and I like the fine-grained permissions for controlling who can view, edit, or update content. The security features work well for large portals, and I find the search experience good, with Elasticsearch helping search respond faster. I also like the document and media library, including automatic document versioning, as well as web content and blogs. Creating Liferay themes is getting easier, and I like the flexibility of custom widgets and Liferay Objects. I’m excited to use the recently introduced Liferay Objects and AI Hub, and I like that Liferay is using React and trying to make the platform as light as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elastic search performs really well, though it consumes a little bit of resources where I host the Liferay Digital Experience Platform application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In this way, the Liferay Digital Platform proves to be strategic for Banco do Nordeste by offering a solid, flexible, and secure technological base, capable of supporting the continuous evolution of institutional digital channels, reconciling governance, systemic integration, and focus on user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a main limitation, Liferay Digital is not natively oriented towards digital marketing and commercial campaigns, requiring additional integrations for these purposes. Furthermore, it is a robust and complex platform, with a steep learning curve and dependence on a specialized technical team, factors that can increase the effort of implementation and maintenance. Nevertheless, these characteristics stem from its architecture focused on systemic integration, governance, and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Low-code/no-code options, personalization, integration with external applications, headless CMS and commerce, and AI capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay DXP is still missing some features, such as CDP and other martech capabilities, although it seems to be incorporating them gradually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I value most about Liferay DXP is the flexibility it offers to build complex portals and digital experiences without feeling limited by the platform. Its customization capability, along with a modular architecture and the possibility of integrating with other systems, makes it a very powerful solution for enterprise projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve can be somewhat steep at first, especially for teams without prior experience with enterprise platforms like Liferay DXP. Additionally, some advanced configurations and certain customizations require a considerable level of technical knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What stands out most about Liferay Digital Experience Platform is its ability to combine enterprise-grade capability with genuine ease of use. Unlike many legacy DXP platforms, Liferay offers a modern, intuitive interface for both administrators and content authors, which significantly reduces onboarding time and improves adoption across teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think all platforms have this problem now, while I believe LIferay is taking the lead around AI for similar platforms, I wish they would move faster. With that said, their AI is really good, I just want more! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay offers a complete set of tools that allow our development team to create prototypes quickly that have full features working in the backend. For example the UI allows for quick page creation, but for many demonstrations we are able to tie directly into systems the customers are using for content, using just the OOTB tools, allow the customers to not just see generic page creations, but their content being displayed and manipulated inside the Liferay tool.

The next piece is their expanding tool sets that are allowing interactions with other systems. We have used the headless API to create multiple mobile applications that are able to provide the same services as the web app very quickly delivering the same look and feel to the web customers. The latest integrations we have been working with has been the MCP server that allows Liferay to interact with AI agents. We have started to use this to increase development efficiency allowing AI to create frameworks, objects, pages, and Groovy scripts that run within the Liferay system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The helpdesk support can be hit or miss. We often work in a proprietary system so the software cannot be shared. When we run into issues the helpdesk often asks us to recreate the issue in a vanilla Liferay instance which can be burdensome, and often shows the same issue we had been showing in our custom system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.