Portlets

WebSynergy comes pre-bundled with many portlets which contain a lot of functionality, but not every web site that is running on WebSynergy needs to use them all. In portlet.xml and liferay-portlet.xml, comment out the ones you are not using. While having a loan calculator, analog clock, or game of hangman available for your users to add to pages is nice, those portlets may be taking up resources that are needed by custom portlets you have written for your site. If you are having performance problems, commenting out some of the unused portlets may give you the performance boost you need.