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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

System configurations

The area of the Magento back-end that has the most configuration choices is within the Stores | Configuration menus and panels. So, let's begin there first.

SSL

Unless your store is using PayPal Express, PayPal Standard, PayPal Advanced, or another off-site payment processing method (for example, Authorize.Net Direct), your store may be taking credit card information on your server. Even though you're not storing the credit card information, you will need to get a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Encryption Certificate installed on your server. Depending on the type of certificate you purchase, this process can take from 2 days to 2 weeks. It pays to plan ahead on this one: don't wait until the day before launch to try to get an SSL Certificate. Unless you're a master at web server configuration, consult with your hosting provider who can provide you with the necessary encryption keys and installation assistance. For most hosting providers, the installation of an SSL Certificate is outside the permissions of the client (you).

Base URLs

Using the procedures , configure your base URLs for each store view level. You should also review the following panels:

  • General | Web | Url Options: If you're using a shared shopping cart and/or a shared SSL, set Add Store Code to Urls to Yes. To avoid duplication of content (which may hurt your search engine rankings), set Auto-redirect to Base URL to Yes (301 Moved Permanently).
  • General | Web | Base URLs (Secure): If you have your SSL Certificate installed, and you have entered the secure URL as the base URL in this panel, set both Use Secure URLs on Storefront and Use Secure URLs in Admin to Yes.

Administrative base URL

Since anyone who has used Magento 2 knows that, by default, the administrative backend of your store is accessible by going to http://www.storedomain.com/backend, changing this URL may help keep out the bad guys. To set up a new admin domain:

  1. Set up your new domain on your server to point to your Magento installation (see your hosting provider, if needed, for assistance).
  2. Go to Advanced | Admin | Admin Base URL, set Use Custom Admin URL to Yes and enter the new domain into Custom Admin URL. Include any path that is necessary for your store front end, such as http://www.newdomain.com/magento.
  3. Set Use Custom Admin Path to Yes and enter the new path for accessing the Magento backend into Custom Admin Path. For example, if you enter mybackend, you would then access the Magento 2 backend using http://www.domain.com/mybackend.

Now you should be able to access your Magento backend using the new domain name. If you have set a Secure Base URL and set Use Secure URLs in Admin to Yes, then the new domain should automatically change to the secure URL. However, this does provide a convenient and more secure means of isolating access to your Magento backend.

Reducing file download time

Today's search engines are monitoring the speed with which web pages download. The faster the download speed, the better your site is liked by Google et al. More importantly, it makes for a better user experience. Magento helps you by giving the backend administrator the means to combine CSS and JavaScript files, creating fewer files to download to render a page.

Merging JavaScript files

To combine your design's JavaScript files into one downloadable file:

  1. Go to the Advanced | Developer | JavaScript Settings panel.
  2. Select Yes for Enable JavaScript Bundling and Merge JavaScript Files.
  3. Click on Save Config.

Note

You may find, when looking at your frontend source code, that not all JavaScript files have been combined. Some add-on modules add JavaScript links outside of Magento's JavaScript combine functionality. That said, combining most of them using this tool can help reduce overall download time.

Merging CSS files

The same process can be applied to your theme's CSS files:

  1. Go to the Advanced | Developer | CSS Settings panel.
  2. Select Yes for Merge CSS Files.
  3. To further reduce the size of this combined file, you can set Minify CSS Files to Yes.
  4. Click on Save Config.

Caching

We went into quite a bit of detail about caching in Chapter 8, Marketing Tools. We mention it here because during development you may have turned off caching to help speed up design and code changes. Take the time now to set your optimum caching settings.

Cron jobs

If you haven't already, configure and turn on cron jobs on your installation. Refer to Chapter 10, Advanced Techniques, for information on how to configure cron jobs.

Users and roles

Before you launch, you may want to set up specific users for whoever will have access to your Magento backend. Certain users may only need access to orders and customers. Others may be responsible for product information and pricing.

Before setting up users, you need to set up various roles or groups of permissions to which you can assign users:

  1. Go to System | User Roles in your Magento backend.
  2. Click on Add New Role.
  3. Give the new role an appropriate name in Role Name.
  4. Click on Role Resources in the left sidebar.
  5. Check the specific permissions you wish to give this role.
  6. Click on Save Role.

Once you have your roles set up, you can set up your users:

  1. Go to System | All Users.
  2. Click on Add New User.
  3. Enter the required fields for User Info.
  4. Click on User Role in the sidebar menu.
  5. Choose one of the roles you set up previously.
  6. Click on Save User.

Once you save the user, an email will be sent to them with the login credentials.