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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

You're reading from   Magento 2 Beginners Guide Discover what you need to know to build your own profitable online stores using the power of Magento 2!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880766
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gabriel Guarino Gabriel Guarino
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Magento 2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Migration 4. Creating Your First Product, Images, Inventory, and Prices 5. Attribute Sets and Custom Attributes 6. Product Types 7. Categories 8. CMS Pages, Blocks, and Widgets 9. Managing Scope and Locale Settings 10. System Configuration 11. Working with Customers 12. Admin Users and Roles 13. Taxes 14. Catalog and Shopping Cart Price Rules 15. Processing Payments 16. Configuring Shipping 17. Fulfilling Orders 18. Transactional E-mails and Newsletter 19. Reports 20. Customizing Your Magento Store 21. Store Maintenance

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Magento provides a way of organizing your catalog into different categories and subcategories. You can organize your catalog internally in the admin panel and offer to the customers a clear way of browsing your products on the Storefront.

You can manage the categories in your store by going to the PRODUCTS | Inventory | Categories section in the admin panel:

Once that section is loaded in the admin panel, you will see the category tree on the left, and the form to add and the edit categories on the right:

On top of the category tree, you will see two buttons:

  • Add Root Category: You can add root categories. This is useful to set up multiple store views, for example, a store for clothing and another store for electronics and computers. These stores will be separated store views, each one of them with a specific catalog contained in different root categories. An example of two root categories can be seen in the following screenshot:

  • Add Subcategory: You can add a subcategory for...

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