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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

Static blocks


If you have information that you want to display in different places, for example, a promotional banner, or the Business Hours for your business location, then you should have a way of editing the information from one section in the admin panel and implementing it in different areas of your websites.

Magento allows you to do the same through static blocks. Static blocks are a powerful way of managing content in your Magento store as you can add HTML content to display in different pages and manage them from the static blocks section in the admin panel.

You can access the static blocks section through the CONTENT | Elements | Blocks menu item in the admin panel: 

There, you will see the following grid with the existing blocks:

There are 18 static blocks included in the Magento 2 sample data. Let's review the static block Training Block. Click on Select on the row of that static block in the Blocks grid and click on Edit:

You will be redirected to the following form:

As you...

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