LifeRay – Social Networking & CMS Web Publishing

LifeRay is one of the leading open source CMS software platforms available for social networking, portal development, business intranets, corporate extranets, forums, archives, and general web publishing. LifeRay has already been downloaded over 1 million times, with an average of over 60,000 downloads per month. The software comes with numerous bundled versions and has already won accolades such as the InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award for Best Open Source Portal.

The LifeRay Portal is composed of two main sections: the LifeRay Journal and the LifeRay Collaboration Suite. The LifeRay Journal is the content management system of the portal, allowing web publishers to easily post content, manage pages, create hierarchical menus, and site structure. The LifeRay Collaboration Suite is the social networking aspect of the portal, which includes forums, wiki collaboration, blogs, email, calendars, and tagging. Both of these can be extended by open source “portlets” that add increased functionality to the system.

The LifeRay Journal:

LifeRay Journal is LifeRay Portal’s built-in content management system (CMS) ready to deliver portal-based web publishing and document management.

• Web Publishing
• Document Library & Image Gallery
• Java Content Repository
• Image Gallery
• Portal Publishing
• Searchable Pages
• Tagging
• Easy Article Creation

The LifeRay Collaboration Suite:

Forums:

• Message Boards
• Sticky Posts
• Statistics
• Recent Posts
• RSS
• Email-based Subscriptions
• Avatars
• Threads Management
• Permissions

Blogs:

• User Blogs
• RSS Support
• Threaded User List
• Guest Comments
• Email Notifications of Blog Replies
• Tags and Labels
• Entry Rating System
• Social Bookmarking Links
• Blog Aggregator

Wikis:

• Built-in User Management
• LDAP Integration & Permissions
• Multiple Wikis per Installation
• Versioning and Reversion Capabilities

Other Features:

• Mail
• Microformats Support
• Shared Calendaring
• Enterprise Instant
• RSS
• Tagging

Portlets:

• Administration
• Content Management
• Collaboration
• Community
• Entertainment
• Personal Tools
• Shopping Tools
• Developer Tools

There are many benefits to the LifeRay Portal software, first and foremost of which are its open source code base and large community of international users. LifeRay provides an intuitive and collaborative user experience and allows publishers to consolidate, organize and access all their data and applications via a single point of access. It is also a cost effective way to optimize your development costs and adapt to the demands of a changing market.

The LifeRay CMS has one of the most impressive client lists of any open source portal software. From IT, Financial Services, and Retail Companies, to Non-Profits, Educational Groups, and Governmental Agencies, LifeRay CMS has hundreds of thousands of web sites deployed with its architecture. The professionalism, scalability, and affordability of LifeRay make it a wise choice for any web development department.

Online Demo:
An online demo of LifeRay is available at:

http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home

Download Page:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/portal

Additional Files:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/additional

Official Plugins:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/official_plugins

Community Plugins:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/community_plugins

Technical Specs:

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/tech_specs

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4 Responses to “LifeRay – Social Networking & CMS Web Publishing”

1. Bryan Cheung says:

   April 21, 2009 at 8:00 pm

   Thanks for the review! I hope a lot of your readers will be able to find a lot of value from our solution.

   Some clarifications:
   • We’re now at 2.3 million downloads, 70-80,000 / month
   • We’ve won additional awards, including InfoWorld 2008 and EContent 2006-2008.
   • Gartner also covered us in their MQ this year as a Visionary.
   • Journal was recently renamed Web Content Management; here’s the blog:
   http://www.liferay.com/web/bcheung/blog/-/blogs/liferay-journal-is-now-liferay-web-content-management

   Also, don’t forget our social networking and mashup capabilities, including the ability to export Liferay portlets to Facebook, Netvibes, iGoogle and any static website via Javascript.

   Follow us on Twitter: liferay

   One Tweeter had this to say about Liferay:

   davidaustin: From downloaded to running #liferay took 23 seconds to startup. Impressed.
   4 days ago from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet

   davidaustin: wow, #liferay has a podcast on how to install its software *bow* http://twurl.nl/2f4ly3 (expand)
   5 days ago from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet

   davidaustin: Installing #liferay portal on my Mac. Looks to good to be true. Am I wrong?
   5 days ago from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet

   davidaustin: Planning on installing liferay.com’s portal later. #liferay looks promising

   Reply
   • Aaron D. Campbell says:

     April 21, 2009 at 8:08 pm

     Thanks for the update/clarification!

     Reply

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   February 4, 2010 at 10:27 pm

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