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Mastering Magento 2

You're reading from Mastering Magento 2 Maximize the power of Magento 2 to create productive online stores

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882364

Length 340 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Magento

Concepts

Ecommerce

Authors (3):

Bret Williams

Gugliotti

Jonathan Bownds

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Mastering Magento 2 Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Planning for Magento FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Magento 2

3. Managing Products

4. Designs and Themes

5. Configuring to Sell

6. Managing Non-Product Content

7. Marketing Tools

8. Extending Magento

9. Optimizing Magento

10. Advanced Techniques

11. Pre-Launch Checklist

Index

Importing products

Creating products one-by-one is fine if you're only selling a few products, but many people choose Magento as a platform to sell hundreds and thousands of different products. Entering each product individually can take a long time, especially if you're writing unique product descriptions, uploading photos, and adding crosslinked products.

With Version 2.0.1, Magento has greatly improved the performance of product imports. In previous versions, importing thousands of products could take hours – literally. We once tried to import 19,000 products and the job took 20 hours to complete! The improvements to Magento importing have greatly decreased that time.

The shortcut to importing products

After spending hundreds of hours wrestling with the importing schemas of Magento over several versions of the platform, I'm happy to say that, starting with Version 2.0.1, there is one shortcut to helping you import products successfully.

Magento imports CSV files according to a specific layout...

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Authors (3)

Bret Williams

Bret Williams

Bret Williams, for over 20 years, has engineered the creation of hundreds of websites, including many profitable e-commerce properties and several Internet firsts. Beginning with version 1.3 of Magento CE, Bret began an odyssey of becoming one of the foremost experts on leveraging Magento to build successful online businesses. Today, as CEO of novusweb llc, Bret continues to provide e-commerce management services from his office in Austin, Texas. Bret authored the wildly popular Mastering Magento, and he is the co-author of Magento 2 Administrator's Guide (Packt Publishing) with his wife and business partner, Cyndi. His company also owns MageDaily website, a Magento news and reviews blog, and MageRevolution, which sells Magento enhancements.

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Gugliotti

Gugliotti

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Jonathan Bownds

Jonathan Bownds

Jonathan Bownds is an e-commerce professional living in the sunny climes of Austin, Texas. He got his start working in technology around 1998, and he promptly gravitated toward Linux, system administration, security, and open source projects. He's been embroiled in something related to one of these topics ever since. He is currently a partner at Praxis Information Science, a web development company that specializes in tackling interesting Magento problems and helping merchants make a go of it in the wild and woolly frontier of e-commerce. Beside work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, playing tennis, reading, and in an ongoing search for the best breakfast taco in Texas.

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