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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!

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785880766

Length 442 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Magento

Concepts

Ecommerce

Author (1):

Gabriel Guarino

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Getting the Magento code base

The first step is to get the latest version of the Magento code base. In order to do that, you should visit the Magento download page (https://magento.com/tech-resources/download) and choose the latest version of Magento:

Getting the Magento code base

In order to have products, categories, and other useful information for our local Magento installation, we will choose the latest version from the Full Release with Sample Data (ZIP with sample data) section:

Getting the Magento code base

Once you download the file, you should uncompress it in the document root of your local machine.

After uncompressing the file, you should see a similar output to the following screenshot:

Getting the Magento code base

Now, we have the code base in place to move ahead with the installation.

There are two ways of installing Magento:

Setup Wizard installation
Command-line installation

Setup Wizard installation

The Setup Wizard is a simple installation process that is performed from the browser.

In order to install Magento using the Setup Wizard,...

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Authors (1)

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Guarino

Gabriel Guarino has been working with Magento since 2009. As a Magento specialist he has achieved all the Magento certifications. He is an active member of the community and has been recognized as a Magento Master for 2017. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Wagento, a full-service Magento Solution Partner with offices in USA, Mexico, Bolivia, India, and Argentina. He is also a moderator in Magento forums, and he is a frequent speaker at Magento events.

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