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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Overview of this book

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform.The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. Tshis book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you’ll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Magento 2 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

CMS management


Content is what helps differentiate one store from another. Quality content can boost a store's visibility on search engines, provide informative insight to the customers who buy products, and provide credibility and trust. Magento provides a solid content management system, which can be used to create rich content for a store. We can use it to manage blocks and pages too.

Managing blocks manually

A CMS block is a small modular unit of content that can be positioned almost anywhere on a page. They can even be called into another blocks. Blocks support HTML and JavaScript as its content. Therefore, they are able to display static information such as text, images, and embedded video as well as dynamic information.

Blocks can be created via an admin interface, APIs, or code.

The following steps outline the block creation process from within an admin interface:

  1. Log in to the Magento admin area.

  2. In the Content | Elements | Blocks menu, click on Add New Block. This opens a screen that...