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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

With the challenges of growing an online business, Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform with innumerable functionalities that gives you the freedom to make on-the-fly decisions. It allows you to customize multiple levels of security permissions and enhance the look and feel of your website, and thus gives you a personalized experience in promoting your business.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Exploring the default Magento 2 themes


When Magento 2 is installed, there are two themes available. You have the Luma theme that you can see in the sample data, and you have the Blank theme that is developed as a starting point to customize your theme.

Getting ready

Log in to the backend and open the design configuration. We can find this in Stores | Configuration | Design.

How to do it...

The following instructions describe how we can configure the theme settings for a Magento 2 store:

  1. When you look at the theme settings on the configuration page, we see that the Magento Luma theme is selected in the Design Theme section. Select the Magento Blank option in the dropdown, save the configuration, and reload the frontend. You should see something like the following screenshot:

  2. We have now configured the Magento Blank theme for the store. The Magento Blank theme is the default theme where the Magento Luma theme will extend from.

  3. Open the page Content | Themes in the backend and you will see an overview...