G2

Yash K.

Liferay Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/27/2026

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"Flexible, Upgrade-Friendly Platform for Enterprise Portals"

5/5

What do you like best about Liferay Digital Experience Platform?

Liferay DXP’s biggest strength is its flexibility. With fragments, FreeMarker templates, client extensions, and headless APIs, we can customize the UI and integrations without touching the core. Objects and Site Initializer make it quick to set up new modules and sites, and role-based permissions, workflows, and multilingual support come out of the box, which suits enterprise and government portals well. The client extension approach also makes upgrades much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Liferay Digital Experience Platform?

The learning curve is steep for beginners, since OSGi, modules, and deployment concepts take time to understand. Documentation sometimes lags behind the latest versions, and the move from 7.4 to the newer quarterly releases brings behavior changes in some features. Local setup and build times can feel heavy, and debugging custom code can get complex. Still, the long-term benefits outweigh these drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Liferay Digital Experience Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

We mostly use Liferay to build portals and intranets for clients, and it saves us from building the boring-but-essential stuff from scratch. User management, roles and permissions, multilingual content, workflows and SSO are all there from day one, so we can spend our time on what the client actually needs. Before this, we’d end up stitching together separate tools for content, forms and user data, and it got messy fast.

For me as a developer, the biggest win is how customizable it is. Fragments and client extensions let us build custom UI and integrate with other systems through headless APIs without hacking the core, which keeps projects maintainable. Objects have also helped a lot with quickly modeling data and building forms without writing a ton of backend code. Overall, we deliver faster, clients get a more consistent experience, and the platform holds up well for larger projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.