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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

Optimizing Magento pages


Once you make Magento SEO system configurations, it's time to set specific options directly on Magento pages. This Magento SEO flow gives the user the flexibility to focus on content and page ranking.

CMS pages

The Magento Content Management System (CMS) manager is a very simple but powerful tool that provides us with control over each aspect of the Magento page. To access Magento CMS pages configuration in the admin area, go to Content | Pages, as shown in the following screenshot:

Magento's default installation provides some demo content to test CMS pages. Check the Home Page content by selecting the Edit option.

For the purpose of SEO, Magento's CMS page administration has two main SEO side menus: Page Information and Meta Data.

In Page Information, you can set the following options:

  • Page Title: This should correspond to the main title of the page

  • URL Key: This is very important to set a great Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL identifier to increase SEO ranking

  • Store...