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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Cookbook Over 60 recipes that will tailor and customize your experience with Magento 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785882197
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Upgrading from Magento 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Products 3. Theming 4. Creating a Module 5. Databases and Modules 6. Magento Backend 7. Event Handlers and Cronjobs 8. Creating a Shipping Module 9. Creating a Product Slider Widget 10. Performance Optimization 11. Debugging and Unit Testing Index

Adding layout updates


In the previous recipe, we created a page without content. In this recipe, we will modify the content of that page with layout updates.

With layout updates, we can arrange the structure of the page as we have seen in the Customizing the HTML output recipe of Chapter 3, Theming. But here, we will see how we can do that in a module.

Getting ready

This recipe builds further on the previous recipe. You need the install the module that we created in the previous recipes of this chapter.

How to do it...

In the next steps, we will see how we can modify the block layout with our module:

  1. Create the app/code/Packt/HelloWorld/view/frontend/layout folder.

  2. In this folder, create a file called default.xml with the following content:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
        <body>
            <referenceBlock name="footer_links">
      ...
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