Welcome to Liferay's official documentation project, the home of Liferay Developer Network articles. All articles are written in Markdown, making them easy to write and easy to read. Approved articles are uploaded to the Liferay Developer Network (LDN) and converted automatically to HTML. In this project, you can contribute new articles, improve existing articles, or fix documentation bugs. To produce documentation that is comprehensive and stylistically consistent, the liferay-docs project provides writing guidelines, Markdown & tools guide, and a tutorial template.
You'll learn how quickly to add a new article and its images next.
You can follow these steps to create a new article and contribute it from GitHub.
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Sign in to GitHub. If you don't already have a GitHub account, you must join GitHub in order to contribute to liferay-docs.
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Click on a
new-articleslink folder below. These match the LDN sections where you can add a articles: -
Select the liferay-docs branch that matches the Liferay Portal version you're writing about:
Branch Portal Version master 7.0 6.2.x 6.2 -
Click the plus sign after new-articles/:
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Write your article and click the
button, to
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Send the pull request to the default user
liferay. -
Drag your article's images into the pull request's comments to associate the images with your article.
Your new article is submitted! Liferay's Knowledge Management team will review your contribution. Approved changes are merged into the liferay-docs repo and published to the Liferay Developer Network.
All Liferay Developer Network articles reside in
liferay-docs repository folders that are laid out in a similar manner to
LDN's pages and articles. Each repository folder under discover,
develop, and distribute represents a section of
LDN's articles. For example, the discover/portal folder
contains Markdown files and images that are the source for LDN's
User & Admin → User Guide
articles.
The following tables show the folder locations for articles published to LDN's User & Admin, Developer, and Marketplace sections.
Source Folders for Liferay Developer Network Articles:
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| liferay-docs/discover/ |
• portal/ → Portal |
• social-office/ → Social Office |
• deployment/ → Deployment |
• reference/ → Reference |
• new-articles/ (You can submit new articles here for LDN's User & Admin section) |
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| liferay-docs/develop/ |
• learning-paths/ → Learning Paths |
• tutorials/ → Tutorials |
• reference/ → Reference |
• new-articles/ (You can submit new articles here for LDN's Developer section) |
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| liferay-docs/distribute/ |
• distribute/new-articles/ (You can submit new articles here for LDN's Marketplace section) |
Now that you're familiar with the layout of the liferay-docs repository, you may be interested in adding and editing LDN articles in a local copy of the liferay-docs repository.
If you're new to the liferay-docs repository and you want to add/edit material locally, you first must clone the project. For information on how to work with Git projects, see How do I use Git and GitHub?
To add an article to LDN's Develop
section (as an example), create your article and its images in the
liferay-docs/develop/new-articles folder. Commit your added files and send a
pull request to default
user liferay. For more information on where to place new articles and for
guidelines on writing them, see
How do I write and submit my own article?
To modify an article, you can edit it locally in its repository location, in
a branch created for that purpose. After you've made your changes, commit them
and submit a pull request to the
default user liferay.
To preview an article, invoke one of the convert.[bat|sh] scripts
on your Markdown file. The scripts are in the bin folder. See
How do I convert my local Markdown to HTML using the provided convert scripts?
for details on using the script.
You've learned how to contribute and you know the article folder structure. Got questions? Check out the liferay-docs FAQ for answers.
Thanks for helping us out with Liferay documentation!