Fernando J Miguel – författare

Get up and running with Magento 2 to create custom solutions, themes, and extensions effectively

About This Book

Create unique solutions for Magento 2 by developing and implementing solutions, themes, and extensionsBe proficient in the main functionalities, resources, and system structure of Magento 2Get to grips with this practical and hands-on guide to raise your web development skills to the next level

Who This Book Is For

If you are a PHP developer who wants to improve your skills in e-commerce development by creating themes and extensions for Magento 2, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

Install and set up the Magento EcosystemChoose the best options for Magento''s Sell System featuresWork with Search Engine Optimization in MagentoCreate and customize themes for MagentoDevelop extensions for new Magento functionalitiesPackage extensions to publish in the Magento Connect networkCreate Magento solutions for mobile devicesCarry out performance adjustments to speed up your Magento system

In Detail

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world''s leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market.

This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects.

This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution.

With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.

Style and approach

This book would be a fast-paced tutorial guide that uses hands-on examples to developing new solutions for Magento e-commerce system. Each topic is explained sequentially in the process of creating a Magento solution, along with detailed explanations of the basic and advanced features of Magento 2.

Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business

Key Features

Realize the full potential of theme design in Magento 2Design attractive themes for your e-commerce store to make them stand out amongst the crowdPractical skills and examples ensure you can take what you''ve learnt to your own projects – limited only by your own creativity!

Book Description

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world''s leading brands. Using Magento''s powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done.

This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website.

We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override.

Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme.

What you will learn

Implement a local development Magento environment Understand the workings of the Magento theme structureEdit an existing Magento theme to satisfy your business needsCreate print strategies for the Magento 2.0 themeGenerate specific blocks to improve the Magento 2.0 themeExplore specific Magento programming Methods to improve the Magento 2.0 themeCustomize the Magento 2.0 admin panel to create a new Magento 2.0 admin themeBuild a Twitter module for Magento 2.0 and integrate Magento 2.0 with social bookmarking

Who this book is for

This book is for web designers and developers with existing knowledge of CSS, HTML, and XML who wish to create themes for Magento 2. Existing Magento 1.x theme designers who now want to develop themes for Magento 2 will also find this book useful.