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Mastering Magento 2

Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By : Bret Williams, Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
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Mastering Magento 2

Mastering Magento 2

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By: Bret Williams, Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
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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 (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Planning for Magento
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1. Planning for Magento
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Defining your scope
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Technical considerations
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Global-Website-Store methodology
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Planning for multiple stores
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Summary
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2. Installing Magento 2
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2. Installing Magento 2
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How hosting effects installation
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Keys to a successful installation
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Setting up Magento stores
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Strategies for backups and security
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Summary
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3. Managing Products
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3. Managing Products
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Catalogs and categories
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Managing products the customer focused way
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Creating products
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Managing inventory
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Pricing tools
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Autosettings
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Related products, up-sells, and cross-sells
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Importing products
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Summary
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4. Designs and Themes
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4. Designs and Themes
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The Magento theme structure
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The concept of theme inheritance
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Default installation of design packages and themes
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Installing third-party themes
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Inline translations
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Working with theme variants
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Customizing themes
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Customizing layouts
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Summary
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5. Configuring to Sell
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5. Configuring to Sell
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The sales process
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Payment methods
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Shipping methods
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Managing taxes
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Transactional e-mails
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Summary
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6. Managing Non-Product Content
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6. Managing Non-Product Content
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The Magento content management system
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Summary
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7. Marketing Tools
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7. Marketing Tools
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Customer groups
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Promotions
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Newsletters
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Using sitemaps
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Optimizing for search engines
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8. Extending Magento
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8. Extending Magento
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Magento Connect
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The new Magento module architecture
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Extending Magento functionality with Magento plugins
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Building your own extensions
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9. Optimizing Magento
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9. Optimizing Magento
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Exploring the EAV
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Indexing and caching
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Caching in Magento 2 – not just FPC
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Tuning your server for speed
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10. Advanced Techniques
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10. Advanced Techniques
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Setting up a staging environment
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Version control
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Magento cron
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Backing up your database
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Upgrading Magento
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11. Pre-Launch Checklist
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11. Pre-Launch Checklist
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A word about scope
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System configurations
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Design configurations
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Search engine optimization
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Sales configurations
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Product configurations
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Maintenance configurations
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Index
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The Magento theme structure

In Chapter 3, Managing Products, we discussed the Global-Website-Store, or GWS, methodology. As we have learned, Magento allows you to customize many store aspects at some, or all, of the GWS levels.

The same holds true for themes. You can specify the look and feel of your stores at the Global, Website, or Store View levels (themes can be applied for individual Store Views relating to a store) by assigning a specific theme.

In Magento, a group of related themes is referred to as a design package. Design packages contain files that control various functional elements common among the themes within the package. By default, Magento Community installs one design package with two themes.

Themes within a design package contain the various elements that determine the look and feel of the site: layout files, templates, CSS, images, and JavaScript. Each design package must have at least one theme, but can contain other theme variants. You can include any number of theme...

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