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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By : Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world’s leading brands. Using Magento’s powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done. This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website. We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override. Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Magento 2 theme debug


From now on, you will work more effectively with Magento 2 theme development. You received enough information so you can start developing your own Magento 2 theme.

Before moving on to the next topics, I would like to end this chapter with a presentation of the Magento debug tool.

With this tool, you can monitor the page rendering behavior of Magento 2, and thereby create a more effective environment for layout changes that you apply in your future projects.

To enable this feature, follow these instructions:

  1. Access the Magento admin area (http://localhost/packt/admin_packt) in your favorite browser.

  2. Navigate to Stores | Configuration | Advanced | Developer.

  3. Change the Enabled Template Path Hints for Storefront option to Yes and save the changes.

Take a look at the following screenshot:

You can set YES for Add Block Names to Hints if you want. This option shows the block names in the frontend, easing your identification of blocks that are used in Magento.

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