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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

By : Fernando J Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

By: Fernando J Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

Magento is the leading e-commerce software trusted by world`s leading organizations. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. Our Magento Course will help you gain knowledge and skills that are required to design & develop world class online stores. Magento 2 Development Essentials - This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will learn Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. Magento 2 Cookbook – This book is divided into several recipes, which show you which steps to take to complete a specific action. It will cover configuring your categories and products, performance tuning, creating a theme, developing a module etc. At the end of this book, you will gain the knowledge to start building a success website. Mastering 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. This book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store which teaches advanced and successful techniques. Focusing on Magento's Community version, this book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products • Magento 2 Development Essentials by Fernando J. Miguel • Magento 2 Cookbook by Ray Bogman and Vladimir Kerkhoff • Mastering Magento 2 by Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 9. Advanced Techniques

By now, even if you're new to Magento, you should have a newfound appreciation for the power and extensibility of the industry's most active open source e-commerce platform. We've covered just about everything from installation to extending the platform. Your Magento store, if not already online, is most likely ready from a preparation viewpoint.

However, we're not quite finished yet. You may want to undertake a few more options that can make your installation act more like that of a Fortune 500 company — and less like a hobbyist's experiment in e-commerce.

In this chapter, I will take you through four advanced techniques that I feel any bona fide Magento master should have in their own personal knowledge base:

  • Setting up a staging environment
  • Versioning your site
  • The Magento cron
  • Backing up your database

You may not wish to undertake all of these now, or later, but at some point you will find these concepts helpful in turning...