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Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By : Bret Williams, Andre Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By: Bret Williams, Andre Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

The long-awaited release of the world's most popular online solution, Magento 2, is now out with an all new interface and several enhancements. This book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of 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. From planning your Magento installation through to advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store. Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. You’ll learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Magento 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Magento content management system


As with most e-commerce platforms, Magento's management of non-product content lacks some of the more robust features of a dedicated content management system (CMS) – such as WordPress, Business Catalyst, or Joomla. However, to its credit, Magento does provide a versatile system that takes into account the possible need for unique content for each of your stores.

As you would expect, the area of the backend for managing the CMS functions of Magento is under the Content menu. This area includes sections for managing Pages, Blocks, and Widgets, as shown in the following screenshot:

Before we dig into each of these items, it's important to recall our discussion about blocks in Chapter 4, Designs and Themes. Whether configuring a page, or placing a static block or widget, Magento builds the final results by assembling blocks of information.

Pages

The pages we will use in the CMS are not actually complete pages, as they lack controls for the overall template...