Liferay has announced that its Liferay CMS platform is now available as a standalone solution, without the need for a Liferay DXP subscription. Liferay CMS is a decoupled content management system (CMS) that distributes structured content through any channel using APIs and uses role-based permissions to control both who can edit the content and who can view it once published.
Improved content management
Many large organizations have invested in developing their digital experiences. These companies have websites based on the frameworks and tools that their teams already know well, and with native applications; In addition, some of them distribute content only in mobile applications or on other platforms, kiosks and connected devices. What they need is a better way to manage the content behind those experiences, not a new way to develop them.
That content often needs to reach multiple channels, in multiple languages, and be managed by multiple teams. Different customer groups are often intended to see different content. Many decoupled or headless CMSs control who can create and edit content, but once published, controlling who can see it usually falls to whoever develops each website or application. In regulated industries such as finance, insurance and healthcare, the wrong customer viewing the wrong content can quickly become a legal compliance issue.
The right content for the right audience
Organizations can deliver only the right content to each customer group (such as individual customers and businesses) from a single content library. In Liferay CMS, role-based permissions cover both authoring and distribution within a single platform. Teams control who can create, review, and publish each piece of content, as well as which customer groups can view it once it’s published. The public website and each customer segment are managed from the same content library and through the same APIs.
Governed autonomy for teams
Teams, business units, and regions can publish and translate content on their own schedules, while ensuring content stays aligned with branding and compliance. Each one has its own space within a shared library, with its respective folders, permissions, languages and sharing rules. Common content structures, required fields, and approval flows ensure consistency throughout. Mandatory legal clauses cannot be bypassed, approvals are recorded in the platform, and version history can be exported for auditing or used to revert to the last approved version without altering the published URL.
Growth capacity on the Liferay platform
Liferay CMS includes built-in digital asset management (DAM), and organizations can add functionality as their needs evolve, without adding a full subscription to Liferay DXP. Liferay Content Marketing Platform (CMP) allows teams to plan and execute campaigns on the same content; Liferay AI Hub incorporates preconfigured and customized AI agents that operate within organizational boundaries and guidelines; and Liferay Data Platform (LDP) shows content performance. For developers, each content framework automatically generates REST and GraphQL APIs, allowing teams to work with the frameworks they already use, while an MCP server allows third-party AI services to access content while respecting set permissions.
Liferay CMS manages and distributes content to the websites and applications the organization already operates
“Traditionally, organizations have been forced to choose between the flexibility of a headless CMS and the control their compliance teams demand,” warns Julia Molano, Chief Product Officer at Liferay. “With Liferay CMS, content teams can publish at their own pace, while IT, Legal and Compliance departments maintain control over who can modify content and who has access to view it. Plus, as their needs grow, they can incorporate campaigns, AI and analytics within the same platform.”
Liferay CMS is built on the core architecture of Liferay DXP, recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape 2025 for AI-Enabled Full-Stack CMS. Liferay CMS manages and distributes content to the websites and applications the organization already operates. Creating e-commerce sites, pages and stores is still part of Liferay DXP.
Liferay CMS is now available for on-premise or cloud-native deployments, giving organizations complete control over the location of their content and user data.
