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Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By : Bret Williams, Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By: Bret Williams, 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 (13 chapters)
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Index

Default installation of design packages and themes


In a new, clean Magento Community installation, you are provided with the following design packages and themes:

Depending on your needs, you could add additional custom design packages, or custom themes within the Magento design package:

  • If you're going to install a group of related themes, you should probably create a new design package

  • On the other hand, if you're only using one or two themes based on the feature of the Magento design package, you can install the themes within the Magento design package hierarchy

We like to make sure that whatever we customize can be "undone" if necessary. It's difficult for us to make changes to the core, installed files; we prefer to work on duplicate copies, preserving the originals in case we need to revert back. After re-installing Magento for the umpteenth time because we had altered too many core files, we learned this the hard way!

Your new theme hierarchy might now look like this:

If you decide to use...