Publishing Tools
Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment without affecting end users. However, they achieve this using different frameworks that have varying integration with other Liferay features. Use Publications unless you need to host your working and production environments on separate servers. In this case you must use Remote Live Staging. See Comparing Publishing Tools for more information.
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Presently, Liferay’s publishing tools do not support Commerce applications or custom objects.
Staging
Understanding the Publishing Process Configuring Local Live Staging Configuring Remote Live Staging Managing Data and Content Types in Staging Page Versioning Publishing Single Assets and Widgets Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Configuring Page Publishing Managing Staging Permissions Using Staging in Asset Libraries Site Staging UI Reference