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Learning Magento 2 Administration

Learning Magento 2 Administration

By : Bret Williams, Williams
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Learning Magento 2 Administration

Learning Magento 2 Administration

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By: Bret Williams, Williams
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Overview of this book

Magento 2 has been completely re-written and re-designed to take the world’s most popular open source e-commerce platform to new heights of productivity and usability. With this overhaul comes improved opportunities to leverage the world’s most successful open source e-commerce platform for your online retail and wholesale business. The focus of this book is on operational aspects: those actions you, as a proprietor, can take to give your customers a more delightful shopping experience. In this guide, we delve into all aspects of managing a Magento 2 store, from product creation to marketing, customer management to search engine optimization. This book is not only a step-by-step course in setting up your Magento 2 website, it will be a handy reference as continue to improve and refine your online presence.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Introducing Magento 2
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1. Introducing Magento 2
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A store owner's primer
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What's new in Magento 2
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Using Magento for e-commerce
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What you need to succeed with Magento
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Summary
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2. Settings and Configurations
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2. Settings and Configurations
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Introducing the Magento 2 backend
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Key system configurations
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Summary
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3. Catalogs and Stores
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3. Catalogs and Stores
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The Global-Website-Store methodology
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Creating categories
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Creating Website and Store entities
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Configuring Store information
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Accommodating multiple languages
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Configuring multiple currencies
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4. Preparing to Sell
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4. Preparing to Sell
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Understanding the checkout and payment process
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Payment methods
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Shipping methods
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Customer groups
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Managing taxes
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Managing orders
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5. Products
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5. Products
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Product types
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Product attributes
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Creating products
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Managing inventory
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Pricing tools
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Autosettings
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Other product selling opportunities
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6. Themes
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6. Themes
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Theme hierarchy
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Assigning themes
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Adding branding elements
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Third-party themes
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7. Content and SEO
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7. Content and SEO
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Managing CMS pages
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Using blocks and widgets
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SEO meta fields
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The SEO checklist
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8. Promotions and Communication
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8. Promotions and Communication
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Store promotions
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Newsletter subscriptions
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Transactional e-mails
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Summary
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9. Security and Administration
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9. Security and Administration
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Using SSL encryption
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Securing your server
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Configuring user permissions
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Magento indexing
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Optimizing your store
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10. Startup Checklist
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10. Startup Checklist
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Setting up product catalogs
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System configuration tasks
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Finalizing products
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Adding content
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Editing communications
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Securing your store
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Creating Website and Store entities

Most store owners who use Magento for the first time will have only one store. In fact, it's quite natural to "get your feet wet" by learning the full power and extent of Magento by building and managing a single Store entity. However, as we pointed out, there can be tremendous power in leveraging Magento's ability to operate multiple stores within a single backend.

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You can contrast Magento's multistore capability with other lesser platforms, in which you have to build each store individually. In these cases, you would have to log into each individual backend to manage your products, orders, and customers. Furthermore, selling the same inventory across multiple stores becomes a considerable synchronization challenge.

Let's begin by revisiting our example Global-Website-Store hierarchy:

  • We want to create two Store entities for sportswear and furniture: www.AcmeSportswear.com and  www.AcmeFurniture.com , respectively
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