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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

Widgets


Widgets are modules that can be included in different pages to display the information based on different configurations through different widget types.

The following widgets are available in Magento for content management:

  • CMS Page Link

  • CMS Static Block

  • Catalog Category Link

  • Catalog New Products List

  • Catalog Product Link

  • Catalog Products List

  • Orders and Returns

  • Recently Compared Products

  • Recently Viewed Products

You can manage your widgets by going to the CONTENT | Element | Widgets section in the admin panel:

There are 18 widgets included in the Magento 2 sample data. As you can see in the following screenshot, all of them are CMS Static Blocks that are included in different places on the Storefront:

We will create a new widget by clicking on the Add Widget button on the top-right corner of the screen. The following form will be displayed:

As you can see, the first step is to select the widget type and the design theme. For this example, we will choose the Catalog Products List widget...