Liferay Portal is a leading open-source platform designed to help organizations build seamless digital experiences for their customers, partners, and employees. Our software is shaped by a global community of users, enthusiasts, customers, and partners working alongside Liferay engineers to solve complex challenges.
We invite you to help us innovate. Whether you are reporting a bug, identifying a security vulnerability, or proposing a bold new product idea, your feedback via our Discussion Forums is the engine of our growth.
For those looking to contribute directly through code—whether by implementing new features or refining existing ones—we welcome your pull requests. To ensure Liferay remains a benchmark for quality and reliability, all contributions are reviewed by our core maintainers.
To jumpstart your journey, please explore the Liferay Official Documentation. It offers the comprehensive guides and reference materials you need to build and contribute effectively.
For more information, visit the links listed in the Additional Resources section below.
The first step to contributing to Liferay Portal is to clone the liferay-portal repo from GitHub and build the platform from source code.
Please follow the instructions provided on the Building Liferay Source page.
To better understand the code structure, please also read the Organizing the Source page.
Creating customizations and debugging code can be made easier using tooling. Consider installing one or more of the following tools to aid in development: