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Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By : Bret Williams, Andre Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By: Bret Williams, Andre Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

The long-awaited release of the world's most popular online solution, Magento 2, is now out with an all new interface and several enhancements. This book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. From planning your Magento installation through to advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store. Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. You’ll learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Magento 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

System configurations


The area of the Magento back-end that has the most configuration choices is within the Stores | Configuration menus and panels. So, let's begin there first.

SSL

Unless your store is using PayPal Express, PayPal Standard, PayPal Advanced, or another off-site payment processing method (for example, Authorize.Net Direct), your store may be taking credit card information on your server. Even though you're not storing the credit card information, you will need to get a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Encryption Certificate installed on your server. Depending on the type of certificate you purchase, this process can take from 2 days to 2 weeks. It pays to plan ahead on this one: don't wait until the day before launch to try to get an SSL Certificate. Unless you're a master at web server configuration, consult with your hosting provider who can provide you with the necessary encryption keys and installation assistance. For most hosting providers, the installation of an SSL Certificate...