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Learning Magento Theme Development

You're reading from   Learning Magento Theme Development Create visually stunning and responsive themes to customize the appearance of your Magento store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280612
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Magento and Magento Themes FREE CHAPTER 2. Magento Theming Basics 3. Magento Templates 4. Magento Layout 5. Social Media and Magento 6. Advanced Magento Theming 7. Magento Theming for Mobile and Tablet Devices 8. Magento E-mail Templates Index

Enabling a Magento theme


Now that you have the bare bones of your new Magento theme ready, you can enable your Magento theme. Log in to your Magento store's administration panel and navigate to the System | Configuration menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Tip

Magento's administration panel is located at example.com/admin if you have installed Magento at example.com.

Once there, select the Design tab that has appeared in the left-hand column of the screen, keeping the Current Configuration Scope drop-down menu's value set to Default Config:

Next, expand the Themes section of the Design settings panel and enter the name of your Magento theme for the Default field here. In the following example, m18 is used as the name of the new Magento theme you are enabling:

Once you have done this, you need to click on the Save Config button in the top-right of the screen, after which you will see the The configuration has been saved success message, as shown in the following screenshot:

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