When youвЂ™re about to create a custom theme in Liferay from scratch, youвЂ™ll need a great technology stack to obtain a desirable design. When youвЂ™re building the facade of a house or any other architectural piece, you require the most efficiently working toolkit that will meet all your needs just right. Required instruments and tools for Liferay theme development ThatвЂ™s why itвЂ™s really important to invest in a theme, and thatвЂ™s why almost every Liferay project starts with a DXP theme development.

But, if youвЂ™re about to create a site, you obviously want to have a unique and beautiful design to make your site stand out among the rest of the competitors. Luckily, the platform already comes up with a set of built-in themes that you can use for your portal. You can also set up different configuration options with color schemes and corresponding settings, implement responsive design, provide personalization features, or even import required resources to the portal with a theme.

With a theme, you can define both a structure for your page (header, footer, content area, etc.) and itвЂ™s styling. It contains a set of FreeMarker templates, JavaScript and CSS, configuration, and resources/images files. The above script generates a compressed tar file you can decompress on top of a newly downloaded bundleвЂ™s folder structure.Liferay Theme is a web application, which helps you develop a graphical appearance for the portal pages. persisted_bundle_configs- `date +%Y%m%d.%H%M `.tgz -files-from < ( printf '%s ' ' $ ' ) #!/bin/bash # Liferay and Tomcat locations LIFERAY_HOME = './liferay' CATALINA_HOME = ' $LIFERAY_HOME /tomcat-9.0.56' declare -a persistent_files =( ' $LIFERAY_HOME /portal-ext.properties' ' $LIFERAY_HOME /portal-setup-wizard.properties' ' $LIFERAY_HOME /osgi/configs/.' ' $LIFERAY_HOME /osgi/configs/.cfg' ' $LIFERAY_HOME /osgi/configs/.' ' $CATALINA_HOME /conf/server.xml' ' $CATALINA_HOME /conf/web.xml' ' $CATALINA_HOME /bin/setenv.sh' ' $CATALINA_HOME /webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/ehcache-config/' ' $CATALINA_HOME /lib/ojdbc8.jar' ' $LIFERAY_HOME /patching-tool/default.properties' ' $LIFERAY_HOME /osgi/marketplace/override/' ' $CATALINA_HOME /conf/Catalina/localhost/' ' $CATALINA_HOME /webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/portal-log4j-ext.xml' ) echo 'Backing up the following files' For Marketplace to work, it must point back to the bundle. Setting the path above also sets LiferayвЂ™s OSGi folder path to your dependencies. Specify this directory path in your portal-ext.properties file.

Set your environment variable to a different directory.Д®xport LIFERAY_HOME='/your/liferay/directory' To make updating easier, move your Liferay home directory outside of the bundle to avoid accidentally overwriting files from a new bundle release. See Important Files to Consider.Д«y default, the Liferay Home directory is inside the bundle. Other files such as portal properties, OSGi configurations, Tomcat files, and database jars are also important. This can include things such as your database, document library, and custom modules. Always back up your database and installation before updating Liferay DXP/Portal.ДЄs your prepare for a new update, identify the important dependencies of your Liferay installation.

Liferay portal bundle directory