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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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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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Customer support
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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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Summary
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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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Configuring user permissions

As with developers, you may want to limit your exposure to damage by giving users of your Magento 2 backend limited access to only the tools and capabilities they need. We know it's easier to simply share your login credentials with your staff, but if or when there comes a time to dismiss a staff person—or if they leave for another job opportunity—you must change your login credentials if you want to eliminate their access.

Additionally, sharing credentials reduces accountability in terms of knowing who did what and when.

The community version of Magento 2 provides you with the tools to provide credentials to as many users as you need as well as create roles that limit access to the features and functions of your store's backend.

Managing roles

In Magento, each user is assigned a role. A role defines the access that a user has to various parts of the backend as well as their capability to change or delete certain records. When your store is initially created, an...

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