Magento 2 Beginner Class; Lesson #5: Overview of the Magento Admin Video Lecture | Magento: Build an E-Commerce Site (English)

now that we have our Magento site
installed let's take a cursory look at
the backend we're just going to gloss
over everything to get a feel for where
things are and then we'll come back to
each item in more detail later so don't
worry if you don't absorb everything
here this is mostly just an overview to
log in to the backend of the site you
need to navigate to the admin URL that
was given to you when you installed
Magento or when you had Magento
installed for you by your web host
depending on what method you used in
your situation if you have forgotten
your admin URL then you can find that in
your file system if you go to your sites
root directory in the app directory then
the Etsy directory if you open up this
env dot PHP file it'll be here near the
top where it says back-end array front
name this text in layman's terms that's
the path that you'll go to to access the
backend of your site as an administrator
so you'll go to your domain slash this
if you've forgotten what it is usually
it looks slightly different from what I
have here in some cases it'll be
something more like admin underscore and
then six random characters this is
especially if you've done a manual
installation whatever your admin URL
happens to be go there and then of
course use your login credentials and
sign it and this is what you'll see the
first time you log in to the backend of
your site see some basic information
sidebar where you can go to lots of
different things and of course $0
lifetime sales and all that because we
have just installed this this is a brand
new site with no information no sales
yet let's just walk through some of
these once again ticket a feel for what
everything is and where everything is of
course this is our dashboard with very
broad basic information if we click
sales
then we have a few options here this as
you can probably guess is all sales
information you can click on orders for
instance and see all of the orders that
have taken place on your website of
course we don't have any right now and
you can do the same for all of these
other things invoices shipments whatever
it is that you want information for if
you click on products then you have two
options catalog and categories let's
click on catalog this part of the back
end is where you add products to your
store to sell this is obviously going to
be crucial to your store this is where
you create things and allow people to
purchase them you'll have them displayed
somewhere on the front end of the site
sometime and then of course with
categories that's where you'll set up
categories for the products in your
catalog if you click on customers then
you can view all customers this is
pretty self-explanatory and also kind of
similar to sales it's just where you can
get information about customers who have
ordered things from your website let's
look at marketing and marketing probably
the most important things here are
everything in these two Left columns you
can set catalog price rules and car
price rules this will allow you to alter
the prices of things based on certain
rules that you set up of course you have
email templates newsletter templates for
communications again marketing related
communications but we won't neglect this
stuff over here either SEO and search
these are course search engine
optimization related things as well as
information for where you can view user
reviews content is another important
part of your site
we have three main elements here as you
can see first there's pages this is
where you can just set up various pages
and various types of pages on your
website you have blocks blocks are
smaller pieces of information usually in
the form of visual blocks in various
places on your site that you determine
like the sidebar for instance
and widgets are like blocks that display
dynamic information information that
changes or that lists things based on
whatever rules you put in place rather
than the more static information that
blocks usually consist of down here
under design we have configuration this
is where you set a lot of the website's
properties we'll dig into that very
shortly
seems where you can change the look of
your website and schedule which allows
you to schedule design changes on your
site to take place automatically such as
the case where you might want an
alternative design to show up on your
site for a season change or for a sale
period or something like that next we
have reports this is also fairly
self-explanatory this will give you lots
of information on just about any aspect
of your store so you can get more
customer information product information
more sales information more marketing
information if you're looking at
informatics and metrics and wanting to
figure things out as far as that aspect
of your operation goes reports is going
to be a very helpful area for you to
look at if we click on stores here we
have lots of settings regarding your
store of course especially its
configuration you'll spend quite a bit
of time here early on getting things set
up if you click on configuration you
have access to lots of different
settings for your store this is where
you'll do things such as set up your
stores physical address your email
address places you'll ship to things
like that this and content configuration
are where you establish a lot of the
base settings for your store and your
site think of your online operation as
the combination of two separate things
your actual store as an entity that has
products that you are selling and then
your website which is the visual
presentation and customer interface for
your store on the web
this area under stores configuration is
for your store itself whereas content
configuration controls the settings for
your website and then down here we have
system which is a little bit more
development related a lot of this is
more technical things that you may not
spend a whole lot of time on if you're
not an actual developer if you're just
trying to set up a site we're not going
to worry about fine partners in
extensions right now so again this is
just a basic overview of the backend of
your Magento site now you'll have some
idea of where you need to go to do
certain things with your website we're
going to plunge into all of these in
more depth however