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Magento 2 Cookbook

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Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Manage attribute sets


Every product has a unique DNA; some, such as shoes, could have different colors, brands, and sizes, while a snowboard could have weight, length, torsion, manufacturer, and style.

Setting up a website with all the attributes does not make sense. Depending on the products you sell, you should create attributes specific to each website.

When creating products for your website, attributes are the key element and need to be thought through. What and how many attributes do you need? And how many values do you need? These are all types of question that could have a great impact on your website; and don't forget performance. Creating an attribute such as color and having 100,000 of different key values stored will not improve your overall speed and user experience. Always think things through.

After creating the attributes, we combine them in attribute sets, which can be picked when starting to create a product. Some attributes can be used more than once, while others are unique...