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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882364

Length 340 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Magento

Concepts

Ecommerce

Authors (3):

Bret Williams

Jonathan Bownds

Andre Gugliotti

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

Magento Connect

Third-party extensions that are offered to the Magento community are, for the most part, listed in a special section of the Magento website called Magento Connect (http://www.Magentocommerce.com/Magento-connect/):

Let's now review some of the features of Magento Connect, as they relate to researching possible add-ons for your Magento installation.

Searching Magento Connect

At the center-right of the Magento Connect home page is a search field. As with any intuitive search, simply enter in one or more keywords. You can also select the specific version – which Magento calls a platform—in the drop-down menu to the right of the keyword entry field. As shown in the following screenshot, we are searching for any extensions relating to sales:

Search field in Magento Connect

Furthermore, we can narrow our search to the specific Magento platform, such as the one on which this book is focused: Community.

The results of our search can be further refined by identifying extensions that are...

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Authors (3)

Bret Williams

Bret Williams

Bret Williams, for over 20 years, has engineered the creation of hundreds of websites, including many profitable e-commerce properties and several Internet firsts. Beginning with version 1.3 of Magento CE, Bret began an odyssey of becoming one of the foremost experts on leveraging Magento to build successful online businesses. Today, as CEO of novusweb llc, Bret continues to provide e-commerce management services from his office in Austin, Texas. Bret authored the wildly popular Mastering Magento, and he is the co-author of Magento 2 Administrator's Guide (Packt Publishing) with his wife and business partner, Cyndi. His company also owns MageDaily website, a Magento news and reviews blog, and MageRevolution, which sells Magento enhancements.

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Gugliotti

Gugliotti

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Jonathan Bownds

Jonathan Bownds

Jonathan Bownds is an e-commerce professional living in the sunny climes of Austin, Texas. He got his start working in technology around 1998, and he promptly gravitated toward Linux, system administration, security, and open source projects. He's been embroiled in something related to one of these topics ever since. He is currently a partner at Praxis Information Science, a web development company that specializes in tackling interesting Magento problems and helping merchants make a go of it in the wild and woolly frontier of e-commerce. Beside work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, playing tennis, reading, and in an ongoing search for the best breakfast taco in Texas.

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