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Mastering Magento Theme Design

By : Andrea Sacca
Book Image

Mastering Magento Theme Design

By: Andrea Sacca

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Magento Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting started with Magento widgets


Magento widgets allow the administrator of the store with no technical knowledge to easily add dynamic content (for example, including product data) to the pages in Magento stores.

The following screenshot represents the Magento widget logo:

In this way, you can add the following dynamic content into the website through the administrator panel:

  • Dynamic product data and information in CMS pages

  • Promotional images to position in different CMS blocks

  • External elements and action blocks such as subscription forms or videos

  • Social media sharing links

We have already learned how to integrate social media buttons into our theme in the product page in Chapter 6, Making the Theme Socially Ready. Now we are going to create a simple widget that inserts the social sharing icons into CMS pages within a few seconds, without having programming knowledge.