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Liferay Forums

Modern discussion forums for Liferay DXP. Members ask questions, share answers, and follow the conversations they care about, while moderators keep the community healthy.

The Liferay Forums home page with the hero search, community statistics, and promoted discussions.

Getting StartedWhat Liferay Forums includes and how to set up your first forum site. InstallingStep-by-step installation on Liferay Self-Hosted (Tomcat or Docker), or on Liferay PaaS or SaaS. Using the ForumStart discussions, reply, ask questions, vote, and follow topics. ModeratingLock topics, review reports, and ban members who break the rules. AdministeringManage categories, email notifications, the site's look, and several forum sites. ReferenceRoles and permissions, pages, configuration, and known issues.

Highlights

  • Discussions and questions. Post a topic as an open discussion, or as a question that can be marked as solved.
  • Categories. Organize topics into categories and one level of subcategories.
  • Mentions and subscriptions. Mention members with @, and get web and email notifications for topics you follow.
  • Voting. Upvote or downvote topics and replies.
  • Moderation. Members report content. Moderators validate reports, lock topics, delete topics, and ban authors per site.
  • Search. Find topics with facets for category, tag, author, and date.
  • Several sites. Run separate forums, each with its own categories, topics, and bans.
  • 13 languages. Labels ship in English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Swedish.

Supported Versions

Liferay Forums Liferay DXP
1.0.0 2026.Q1 LTS, with the required Liferay fixes. Tested on 2026.Q1.1 and 2026.Q1.4.

To install Liferay Forums, follow Installing. Download the release files from the latest release.

Solution Recipes

Recipes combine Liferay Forums with other Liferay products, step by step. They’re on the Liferay Community APAC site.

Forums Assistant with AI HubAdd an AI chat that tells members where to find the discussions they're looking for, searching only what each member can see. Uses Liferay AI Hub, generally available from Liferay DXP 2026.Q3. AI Discussion Summaries with AI HubShow an AI summary at the top of busy discussions, written by a Liferay AI Hub agent and kept up to date as replies arrive. Uses Liferay AI Hub, generally available from Liferay DXP 2026.Q3. SharePoint Discussions to Liferay ForumsMove SharePoint Server 2016 discussion boards into Liferay Forums, keeping authors, nested replies, best answers, attachments and likes. Uses Liferay Migration Studio, which is coming soon.
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