Staging Content for Publication

Today’s enterprises are generating an enormous amount of content for their users. Liferay DXP provides advanced publishing tools to make the content easily and reliably available for users.

Staging is an important feature of Liferay WCM. The concept of staging is a simple one: you can modify your site behind the scenes and then publish all your updates in one shot. You don’t want users seeing your web site change before their eyes as you’re modifying it, do you? Liferay DXP’s staging environment allows you to make changes to your site in a specialized staging area, which is linked to a production environment. Typically the staging site has a more limited audience (e.g., content editors, site administratros, etc.) while the production environment is accessible for most users. When you’re finished, you can publish all your site changes at once.

Site administrators can set up their staging environments locally or remotely. With Local live staging, your staging environment and live environment are hosted on the same server, whereas Remote live staging has the staging and live environments on separate servers. You’ll learn more about the differences between these two staging environments and how to properly enable them for your Liferay instance.

Liferay DXP also offers the Page Versioning feature. This feature works with both Local Live and Remote Live staging and allows site administrators to create multiple variations of staged pages. This allows several different versions of sites and pages to be developed at the same time. Variations can be created, merged, and published using a Git-like versioning system. In the next section, you’ll jump in to see how to enable staging.

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