Magento Tutorials

How to Create Magento Attributes for Products

When you first set up a Magento site, your products will have a price, a weight, an image and some other popular e-commerce options.

However, these options won't be enough for many stores. Different products have different needs. Here are some simple examples:

A book store will require fields for the Publisher, the Date of Publication, and the ISBN number.
A clothing store may require fields for Type of Fabric, Clothing Size, and Clothing Color.
A car store may require fields for Engine, Body Type, and Miles Per Gallon.

Magento allows you to add all those details through the use of "attributes". In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use attributes in Magento.

This guide is taken from Magento 2 Explained, the best-selling book for Magento 2. We use the example of a store called "Orangeville" in that book, so you'll see it referred to here.

The Beginners Guide to Magento Blocks and Widgets

Blocks and Widgets are the key layout features in Magento. These two features are very closely linked, and are often used together.

One way to think about Blocks is that they are mini-Pages. A Block can also contain text, images, video and more. But because Blocks are smaller, you will see them around the edges of your site. Blocks are often inserted into headers, sidebars and footers.

However, Blocks are placed using Widgets. First you create a Block, and then you use a Widget to decide where that Block will be displayed.

Let's walk you through some examples and show you how Blocks and Widgets work in Magento.

This guide is taken from Magento 2 Explained, the best-selling book for Magento 2. We use the example of a store called "Orangeville" in that book, so you'll see it referred to here.

The Beginners Guide to Understanding Magento Taxes

Taxes are never fun, whether you're paying or collecting them.

However, when you're running an eCommerce store with Magento, Taxes are an unavoidable headache.

We're going to try to explain everything in plain English, but there's no getting around the fact that taxes are hard work.

So, sit down in a comfortable chair and make yourself a strong cup of coffee. Let's explore how taxes work in Magento.

This guide is taken from Magento 2 Explained, the best-selling book for Magento 2. We use the example of a store called "Orangeville" in that book, so you'll see it referred to here.

Top Reasons Why You Should Be Using Magento

Magento is an open source ecommerce platform designed and used by many companies to strengthen their brands. Today it is one of the most trusted platforms for developing web based ecommerce businesses.

Setting up an ecommerce store requires lots of strategies to be undertaken in order to come up with an excellent working online store, something that is not as easy as it sounds. By using Magento, users can create both simple and sophisticated stores that can be customized as per the users’ ideas.

How to Remove the Footer Links from Magento 2

Great software development can turn difficult problems into easy tasks. But sometimes, the opposite happens and apparently easy problems become difficult tasks.

Magento makes some tasks way harder than they should be.

Things to Know Before Installing Magento

Are you planning to add a website to your brick-and-mortar store? If Yes, then running your site on Magento could be one of your best choices.

You have several options to install Magento. In this tutorial, you will learn what you need to know before installing it.

Base, Small, Thumbnail and Swatch Images in Magento

If you add products to your Magento store, multiple versions of your image are created automatically.

When you're editing your product, you'll see four different image versions:

Base
Small
Thumbnail
Switch

What do those versions mean, and where will you find those different images on your site?

After Years of Decline, Magento is Spending and Growing

A couple of years ago, Magento appeared to be a dying platform lost inside eBay's corporate ownership. The software was being poorly developed, and their approach to security releases was absolutely awful. Community members were worried.

In 2017, things are very different. Magento was sold to a private equity company, and then Magento 2 was released after several years of delays. On the back of those changes, they raised $250 million. That money is burning a hole in their pocket. Their CEO publicly announced an acquisition spree, and recent purchases include:

RJMetrics, an e-commerce analytics platform, which is now "Magento Business Intelligence Essentials".
Shopial, which turns your store into a Facebook shop. This will be used in a new service called "Magento Social".
Bluefoot, a Page Builder module, which Magento has rebranded as "Magento Advanced CMS".

Learn What Magento 2 Indexes Are and How You Can Manage Them

If you have a large Magento 2 site, you may well end up with a lot of content.

To stop this content from harming your site performance, you should understand indexing in Magento.

In a nutshell, indexing is Magento's way to store your shop data, such as products, categories, prices, and taxes.

How to Add a Simple Magento 2 Product

If you're brand new to Magento 2, it's not always easy to understand how to add new products.

Before adding products, you need some knowledge about Magento in general, including attribute sets, and tax classes. You also need to understand what happens after adding your product, in order to ensure it goes live on your site.

In this video from OSTraining's YouTube Channel, Rebecca Troth shows you everything you need to think about, from attribute sets to indexing: