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Learning Magento Theme Development

You're reading from   Learning Magento Theme Development Create visually stunning and responsive themes to customize the appearance of your Magento store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280612
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Magento and Magento Themes FREE CHAPTER 2. Magento Theming Basics 3. Magento Templates 4. Magento Layout 5. Social Media and Magento 6. Advanced Magento Theming 7. Magento Theming for Mobile and Tablet Devices 8. Magento E-mail Templates Index

Adding local.xml to your Magento theme

As you have seen, Magento provides fallbacks to fill in the files not provided by your theme to help ensure your website functions as effectively as possible. You can overwrite the layout information in your Magento theme by applying a local.xml file to your Magento theme.

Create a file called local.xml in your theme's /app/design/frontend/default/m18/layout/ directory, and include the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
</layout>

This is the very least your Magento XML layout file requires: all of the subsequent changes to your theme's layout need to be written in the <layout> element.

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