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Magento 2 Theme Design

Magento 2 Theme Design

By : J Miguel, Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design

Magento 2 Theme Design

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By: J Miguel, Richard Carter

Overview of this book

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.
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Building the BookStore theme


Magento 2 can handle different themes inside the same vendor scope, as you saw in the earlier chapters. We have created the Hello World theme inside Packt's vendor, but with reduced options inside the theme. The idea behinds the Hello World theme was to introduce to you some basic concepts. Now it's time to move up to the next level! The theme project proposal of this chapter is called BookStore.

First of all, you have to build the theme directory in <magento_root>/app/design/frontend/Packt/bookstore:

Clarifications about the theme's directory structure:

  • etc: This usually handles the XML configuration of some components

  • Magento_Theme: This overrides the native Magento_Theme module by adding new functionalities

  • media: This stores the preview image of the BookStore theme

  • web: This handles created CSS and images files

It is time to create the theme.xml file in the <magento_root>/app/design/frontend/Packt/bookstore directory with the following code:

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