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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 catalog configuration


Magento has a special panel to take care of the catalog categories of SEO. To access this panel, navigate to Stores | Configuration | Catalog | Search Engine Optimization, as follows:

This panel has the following options:

  • Popular Search Terms: This allows pages to display your most popular search phrases. Set this to Yes.

  • Product URL Suffix: This is the suffix that is added to the end of your product URLs.

  • Category URL Suffix: This is the suffix that is added to the end of your category URLs.

  • Use Categories Path for Product URLs: This includes the category URL in your URL string.

  • Create Permanent Redirect for URLs if URL Key Changed: This automatically creates a redirect via the URL Rewrites' module in Magento if the URL key is changed in any page on your website.

  • Page Title Separator: This separates the page titles on the frontend of your store.

  • Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories: This displays the main version of the category page. This is picked up by...