Some alterations to Liferay after the clean install

• Goto Portal Settings and
• Change the way users authenticate.
• Replace logo and set correct timezone.
• Remove the role Power User for newly created users.
• Change the Site Settings so the site is active and private.
• Change the domain name of the default portal, the webId
• Before a clean install you can extend the property in the portal-ext.properties by setting company.default.web.id=<yourdomain.com>
• After an install you can change this by UPDATE Company SET webId = 'new-web-id.com' WHERE webId = 'liferay.com';
• Remove the pre population of the username in the sign-in portlet
• company.login.prepopulate.domain=false
• Remove the footer "Powered by Liferay"
• /tomcat/webapps/ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates/portal_normal.vm
• Remove the chat-portlet from web apps directory in Tomcat to remove the chat bar on the bottom of the page for signed in users.
• Remove the top docbar for specific roles. See this blog.
• ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates/portal_normal.vm
• the part surrounding #dockbar()
• In the portal-ext.properties, force that new users do not get public and private pages. See here.
• layout.user.private.layouts.enabled=false
• layout.user.public.layouts.enabled=false
• Add sign-out option to the template
• ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates/portal_normal.vm
• #if ($is_signed_in)
• <a href="$sign_out_url" id="sign-in" rel="nofollow">$sign_out_text</a>
• #end