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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

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  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores
  4. Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores
  5. Credits
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Module 1
  8. 1. Magento Fundamentals
  9. XAMPP installation
  10. Magento
  11. Summary
  12. 2. Magento 2.0 Features
  13. An introduction to the Magento order management system
  14. Magento 2.0 command-line configuration
  15. The command-line utility
  16. Summary
  17. 3. Working with Search Engine Optimization
  18. Store configuration
  19. SEO and searching
  20. SEO catalog configuration
  21. Google Analytics tracking code
  22. Optimizing Magento pages
  23. Summary
  24. 4. Magento 2.0 Theme Development – the Developers' Holy Grail
  25. Magento 2.0 theme structure
  26. The Magento Luma theme
  27. Magento theme inheritance
  28. CMS blocks and pages
  29. Custom variables
  30. Creating a basic Magento 2.0 theme
  31. Summary
  32. 5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme
  33. Composer – the PHP dependency manager
  34. Building the CompStore theme
  35. CSS preprocessing with LESS
  36. Applying new CSS to the CompStore theme
  37. Creating the CompStore logo
  38. Applying the theme
  39. Creating CompStore content
  40. Customizing Magento 2.0 templates
  41. Summary
  42. 6. Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go
  43. Using the Zend framework
  44. Magento 2.0 extension structure
  45. Developing your first Magento extension
  46. The Twitter REST API
  47. The TweetsAbout module structure
  48. Using TwitterOAuth to authenticate our extension
  49. Developing the module
  50. Summary
  51. 7. Go Mobile with Magento 2.0!
  52. Adjusting the CompStore theme for mobile devices
  53. The Magento 2.0 responsive design
  54. The Magento UI
  55. Implementing a new CSS mixin media query
  56. Adjusting tweets about extensions for mobile devices
  57. Summary
  58. 8. Speeding up Your Magento 2.0
  59. Indexing and caching Magento
  60. Indexing and re-indexing data
  61. The Magento cron job
  62. Caching
  63. Fine-tuning the Magento hosting server
  64. Selecting the right Magento hosting service
  65. Apache web server deflation
  66. Enabling the expires header
  67. Minifying scripts
  68. Summary
  69. 9. Improving Your Magento Skills
  70. Magento knowledge center
  71. Improving your Magento skills
  72. Summary
  73. 2. Module 2
  74. 1. Magento 2 System Tools
  75. Installing Magento 2 sample data via GUI
  76. Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line
  77. Managing Magento 2 indexes via the command line
  78. Managing Magento 2 cache via the command line
  79. Managing Magento 2 backup via the command line
  80. Managing Magento 2 set mode (MAGE_MODE)
  81. Transferring your Magento 1 database to Magento 2
  82. 2. Enabling Performance in Magento 2
  83. Configuring Redis for backend cache
  84. Configuring Memcached for session caching
  85. Configuring Varnish as the Full Page Cache
  86. Configuring Magento 2 with CloudFlare
  87. Configuring optimized images in Magento 2
  88. Configuring Magento 2 with HTTP/2
  89. Configuring Magento 2 performance testing
  90. 3. Creating Catalogs and Categories
  91. Create a Root Catalog
  92. Create subcategories
  93. Manage attribute sets
  94. Create products
  95. Manage products in a catalog grid
  96. 4. Managing Your Store
  97. Creating shipping and tax rules
  98. Managing customer groups
  99. Configuring inventories
  100. Configuring currency rates
  101. Managing advanced pricing
  102. 5. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics
  103. Initializing extension basics
  104. Working with database models
  105. Creating tables using setup scripts
  106. Creating a web route and controller to display data
  107. Creating system configuration fields
  108. Creating a backend data grid
  109. Creating a backend form to add/edit data
  110. 6. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced
  111. Using dependency injection to pass classes to your own class
  112. Modifying functions with the use of plugins – Interception
  113. Creating your own XML module configuration file
  114. Creating your own product type
  115. Working with service layers/contracts
  116. Creating a Magento CLI command option
  117. 3. Module 3
  118. 1. Planning for Magento
  119. Technical considerations
  120. Global-Website-Store methodology
  121. Planning for multiple stores
  122. Summary
  123. 2. Managing Products
  124. Managing products the customer focused way
  125. Creating products
  126. Managing inventory
  127. Pricing tools
  128. Autosettings
  129. Related products, up-sells, and cross-sells
  130. Importing products
  131. Summary
  132. 3. Designs and Themes
  133. The concept of theme inheritance
  134. Default installation of design packages and themes
  135. Installing third-party themes
  136. Inline translations
  137. Working with theme variants
  138. Customizing themes
  139. Customizing layouts
  140. Summary
  141. 4. Configuring to Sell
  142. Payment methods
  143. Shipping methods
  144. Managing taxes
  145. Transactional e-mails
  146. Summary
  147. 5. Managing Non-Product Content
  148. Summary
  149. 6. Marketing Tools
  150. Promotions
  151. Newsletters
  152. Using sitemaps
  153. Optimizing for search engines
  154. Summary
  155. 7. Extending Magento
  156. The new Magento module architecture
  157. Extending Magento functionality with Magento plugins
  158. Building your own extensions
  159. Summary
  160. 8. Optimizing Magento
  161. Indexing and caching
  162. Caching in Magento 2 – not just FPC
  163. Tuning your server for speed
  164. Summary
  165. 9. Advanced Techniques
  166. Version control
  167. Magento cron
  168. Backing up your database
  169. Upgrading Magento
  170. Summary
  171. 10. Pre-Launch Checklist
  172. System configurations
  173. Design configurations
  174. Search engine optimization
  175. Sales configurations
  176. Product configurations
  177. Maintenance configurations
  178. Summary
  179. Index

Upgrading Magento

From time to time, as Magento improves its platform features, or to address bugs and security issues, you will receive a notice that your system needs to be upgraded. With Magento 2, this upgrade process is made infinitely easier and better than in Magento 1.x.

Note

If you are versioning your Magento installation, you should not upgrade your production installation using our instructions here. Rather, upgrade your development environment, test, and then promote your code to your production server.

In order to keep your Magento installation upgraded, you must take certain steps:

  • Obtain Magento Marketplace keys
  • Run the System Upgrade routine in your Magento 2 backend

Obtaining Magento Marketplace keys

In order for your store to communicate to Magento for upgrade verifications, you or a developer has to obtain developer keys. While this suggests that keys are only for developers, anyone can create an account at Magento and obtain keys.

If you don't already have an account at Magento, go to https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/customer/account/create/ and create your free account. Once you are registered, log in to your account at https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/customer/account/login/.

After you log in:

  1. Click on the Connect tab.
  2. Click on the Developers side menu tab.
  3. Click on Secure Keys in the sidebar menu.
  4. Enter a Name for your keys. This is only a reference name (such as "Production Server"), so you can easily determine which keys are for which Magento installation.
  5. Click on Generate new.
  6. On the results screen, you will see two keys: Public Key and Private Key. You will use these for the next part of this process:
    Obtaining Magento Marketplace keys
  7. In your Magento 2 backend, go to System | Web Setup Wizard.
  8. Click the large button labeled System Configuration.
  9. On this page, paste the keys obtained previously into the appropriate spaces and click on Save Config.
    Obtaining Magento Marketplace keys

Upgrading your Magento installation

Now that you're able to communicate with Magento Connect, you can begin the process of upgrading your installation.

After entering your keys, you should still be within the Wizard. Find the System Upgrade button or sidebar menu and click it to begin the upgrade process.

The System Upgrade screen shows the steps the process will undertake to complete:

Upgrading your Magento installation

When this screen first loads, it goes through a series of checks to find out what needs to be upgraded. You can choose the version of Magento Core Components you wish to upgrade, as well as any other components that may have been added to your installation.

Once you make your choices, click on Next:

Upgrading your Magento installation

Note

There are many reasons why an upgrade might fail. We have certainly had our share of issues, although far less with Magento 2 than with earlier versions. If you are a developer, you can find that most upgrade errors can be fixed by going to http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/comp-mgr/trouble/cman/were-sorry.html and reviewing the advice shown there.

On the next screen, you can determine whether your installation is truly ready for a system upgrade. Click on Start Readiness Check and wait for it to complete its analysis:

Upgrading your Magento installation

Click Next to create a backup of your installation.

Tip

If you're not using a hosting company that provides backups or you do not have a backup protocol, well, you're flirting with trouble. No matter how well a server is configured or you maintain your Magento installation, you should never fail to make regular backups. As in this process, you should also make a backup whenever you make any changes to your Magento code.

In most cases, you will want to include all items in your backup. However, if your server is regularly backed up and you have lots of product images (for example, thousands of product SKUs), you might consider not backing up site "media." Media can take a long time to back-up and consume considerable space. However, if you update your media often, don't hesitate to include it in your backup.

Click on Create Backup to trigger the backup process.

Note

Backups of even the most modest-sized Magento installations can take some time. Do not interrupt this process. If something goes awry, Magento will alert you with an error message. In other words, be patient!

When the backup is complete, click on Next. If all has gone well, the system will tell you it's ready for you to click on Upgrade.