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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By : Fernando J Miguel
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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By: Fernando J Miguel

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market. This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects. This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution. With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

SEO and searching


Magento has a specific SEO configuration panel for multiple sections. To access the main Magento SEO configuration, enter in the Magento admin area (http://localhost/packt/admin-packt), and you will find the panel by clicking on the menu at Marketing | SEO & Search:

Magento 2.0 changed some functionality in comparison with its previous version. For example, in the URL Rewrites menu, you can manage and define all the URL addresses of Magento in order to increase the SEO's friendly URLs.

Here, you can simply choose Request Path to edit and enter a description for each of them, as shown in the following screenshot:

In Search Terms, you can define and redirect the URL according to the search made by the user by adding a new search term:

Finally, in the New Site Map section, you can generate Sitemap of your Magento installation as shown in the following screenshot: