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Mastering Magento 2

You're reading from   Mastering Magento 2 Maximize the power of Magento 2 to create productive online stores

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882364
Length 340 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bret Williams Bret Williams
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Jonathan Bownds Jonathan Bownds
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Andre Gugliotti Andre Gugliotti
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning for Magento FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Magento 2 3. Managing Products 4. Designs and Themes 5. Configuring to Sell 6. Managing Non-Product Content 7. Marketing Tools 8. Extending Magento 9. Optimizing Magento 10. Advanced Techniques 11. Pre-Launch Checklist Index

Catalogs and categories


The use of the terms catalogs and categories in Magento used to be a bit confusing, as Magento tended to use these terms with some inconsistency. In Magento 2, the distinction is better defined.

In Magento, the catalog is the full collection of products within your Magento installation. Looking under Products | Catalog in the backend, you can view all your products regardless of to which Website or categories they may be assigned.

Categories in Magento 2 are just that: categories of products. Let us delve a bit deeper into this.

Creating categories

In Chapter 2, Installing Magento 2, we created the root categories needed for our new stores. Now, we need to learn how to create sub-categories that will allow us to assign products and display them in logical groups on our store.

For our furniture store, we want to create a new subcategory for sofas:

  1. Go to Products | Categories in your Magento backend.

  2. Click on Furniture in the list of categories on the left.

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