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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Code audit


A senior software engineer should review the code base of your current Magento 1.x store and take notes about the current state of the code.

This means that the software engineer will ensure that there are no bad practices in the Magento 1.x store because that would lead to missing features in the Magento 2.x store.

Modified Magento core

An example of a bad practice in Magento 1.x is directly modifying the Magento core. Some developers do this instead of creating custom modules, which results in changes in the platform that are not visible in the code base through the custom modules. This will prevent those features from being migrated to Magento 2, since they are not visible to the developers when they review the custom modules.

If their core has been modified, then that will be the first step: moving those changes from the core to custom extensions, and restoring the original core files from Magento.

You can download any version of Magento, 1.0 onwards, from the Magento Tech Resources...