Modifying Magento
by Robbert Ravensbergen, Sander Schoneville
Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installation
- Installing Magento locally
- Requirements
- Time for action – installing Magento on a Windows machine
- I'm on Mac; what should I do?
- Installing Magento at a hosting service
- How to choose a Magento hosting provider
- Installatron
- Time for action – installing Magento using Installatron
- What is SSL and do I need it?
- Summary
- 2. General Configuration
- 3. Categories and Attributes
- 4. Simple Products
- Adding a Simple Product
- Time for action – filling the General tab
- Time for action – filling the Prices tab
- Time for action – filling the Meta Information tab
- Time for action – filling the Images tab
- Time for action – filling the Custom tab
- Time for action – filling the Inventory tab
- Time for action – filling the Categories tab
- Related products, up-selling, and cross-selling
- Time for action – adding related products
- Summary
- 5. Beyond Adding Simple Products
- 6. Customer Relationships
- 7. Accepting Payments
- 8. Configuring Shipping
- 9. Customizing Your Store's Appearance
- Magento themes
- Your home page, CMS pages, and static blocks
- Changing transactional e-mails
- Time for action – changing the text inside transactional e-mails
- Choosing between a pre-made and a custom-made theme
- A combination
- Suppliers for premade themes
- Installing a theme
- Making changes to your theme
- Time for action – changing a heading to normal text
- Time for action – changing the color of a heading
- Time for action – removing a block from the right column
- Summary
- 10. Fulfilling Orders
- Sales orders on the frontend
- Time for action – creating a first sales order
- Managing sales orders on the backend
- Time for action – opening and processing an order
- Creating sales orders on the backend
- Time for action – creating a manual Sales Order
- Returns and Credit Memos
- Time for action – creating a Credit Memo
- Summary
- 11. Maintaining and Administrating Your Store
- Managing your store
- Overview of your Magento installation
- Go-live checklist configuration settings
- General settings
- Web settings
- HTML Head
- Placeholder images
- Contact information and e-mail addresses
- Tax rates
- Payment methods and shipping methods
- Currency
- Transactional e-mails – password text
- Admin URL
- 404 (page not found)
- Stock
- Google Analytics
- Caching
- Index Management
- Licenses
- Daily tasks / cron jobs
- Log cleaning
- Database backups
- Product meta information
- Default images in columns
- Escalations
- Further development of your website
- Time for action – planning for the future
- Working with partners
- Time for action – structuring development partnerships
- Modifying Magento
- Cache
- Upgrading Magento
- Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Index
If you want to modify Magento yourself, there are three things to watch out for:
- Try to limit the amount of technical work you will be doing in your store to a bare minimum. Often, even the time it takes to develop simple things is underestimated.
- With any change you make, ensure you can go back to a state before you made the change. Concretely this means copying all files you will be changing, and backing up the database as well if you are changing anything in that as well. Always have a way back.
- Never develop and test changes live. Always have a copy of your site present where you can mess things up without consequences. Once you are completely sure everything works in your development copy, you can perform the changes live. Even then, backup your live site just to be sure!
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