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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Cache and Index Management


Two aspects to consider when managing a Magento store are cache and index. 

Every time you make a change to the storefront, such as adding a new banner or changing a title, if the cache is enabled, you have to clear it to allow your customers to see updates on the storefront.

Similarly, every time you make a change to the catalog, you have to reindex it to display the updated information for your customers.

If you open the SYSTEM tab in the Magento admin panel, you will see that both sections are available under the Tools sub-menu:

That said, let's open the Cache Management page. When the page is loaded, you will see the following grid on the screen:

From this grid, you can enable, disable, and refresh each cache type. It's recommended to turn on all cache types in production to improve the performance of your Magento store. From here, you will be able to refresh the cache types if necessary. If a change is made from the admin panel and refreshing the cache is required...