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Mastering Magento Theme Design

You're reading from   Mastering Magento Theme Design Magento is the super-capable open source e-commerce platform that's number one for a reason. By using this book to optimize your know-how, you'll be acquiring the ultimate in e-tail expertise for yourself and your clients.

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Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783288236
Length 310 pages
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Mastering Magento Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Introducing Magento Theme Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Responsive Magento Theme with Bootstrap 3 3. Customizing Our Custom Theme 4. Adding Incredible Effects to Our Theme 5. Making the Theme Fully Responsive 6. Making the Theme Socially Ready 7. Creating a Magento Widget 8. Creating a Theme Admin Panel 9. Customizing the Backend of Magento 10. Packaging and Selling the Theme Conclusions and Credits Index

Customizing the other pages of the theme


In this topic, we are going to explore quickly how to customize some of the main sections of the theme. Then you will be able to apply this information to personalize any blocks of your awesome theme!

The products grid

To customize the default products grid, duplicate the list.phtml file in to your theme. The path of the file is /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product.

You can use the same structure we used for list-home.phtml to make it look like the grid in the home page.

The products category page is managed by two different handles:

  • Layout handle for the default category: <catalog_category_default>

  • Layout handle for the layered category: <catalog_category_layered>

In order to use the <catalog_category_layered> handle, the category must have the setting Is Anchor set on Yes. This option is available on the admin area, under the Display Settings tab of the Manage Categories section of the category, as shown in the...

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