Magento 2 Beginner Class; Lesson #30: Final Notes and Understanding of Magento Video Lecture | Magento: Build an E-Commerce Site (English)

let's go over some final notes for
understanding the basics of Magento - we
didn't install a theme during this
tutorial because at the time of this
recording there are no working free
themes on the Magento marketplace for
our version but to reiterate what I said
in the extension installation video that
process is the same as installing an
extension when you've selected a theme
and installed it on your site enabling
it is for the most part pretty easy just
go to content configuration and edit
this website and right here at the top
applied theme that new theme will be
listed along with these themes that come
with Magento out of the box and you'll
simply select it and make sure you save
your configuration you can also schedule
automatic theme changes at content
schedule these fields look a little
confusing at first until you realize
that this is just for filtering down any
scheduled design changes that you've
already put in place to add a design
change you simply click this button and
we're not going to go through it but you
just tell it what design you want put in
place starting at what date and ending
at what date and if it ends and it
doesn't have another design to return to
it will default back to the default
design that you established in the
previous page and finally don't forget
that as we saw earlier in the tutorial
if you want you can also change the
theme for individual products in the
settings for any given product do keep
in mind that when you install and begin
using a new theme in many cases it will
drastically alter the look and in some
cases the layout of your website so you
often may need to do some reorganization
of blocks and widgets with different
themes to get everything where you
wanted
aside from themes before you go live
with your website you're also going to
want to return to stores configuration
and basically scan through every major
section after general which we've
already covered so we're not going to
look at everything but I will touch on a
few things
first the catalog section here is going
to be important and has a ton of
configuration options even just under
catalog catalog you see we have a lot of
the
to take a look at here to get our site
again looking and working the way that
we want it to one thing that I will
mention specifically is to consider in
the product fields Auto generation group
consider taking name out of mask for
Meta Description so that way you just
have description in double curly
brackets when you have the name here you
may have noticed this way earlier in the
tutorial where it has the name of the
product and then the description and it
sort of looks random it doesn't really
flow together very well
so I preferred to change this to just
the description and save the
configuration and of course you'll need
to flush your cache I'm not going to
worry about doing that right now
you remember how to do that we've done
that plenty of times then of course we
have settings related to inventory our
XML sitemap RSS feeds most of the
configuration options in these sections
of the sites in these sections of the
back end are pretty self-explanatory
customers we've gone over a good bit of
this we've set up newsletters wishlist
is pretty self-explanatory customer
configuration has configuration options
again specifically just for customers
then you can manage promotions and your
persistence shopping cart we've gone
over most of what's here in sales
services is really for more intermediate
to advanced users but as you can see it
gives you settings for things such as
API and ooofff then advanced as you can
guess has a number of advanced settings
I will note that under admin if you
click on that then under security you
may want to consider admin account
sharing if you're using one admin
account that multiple people are sharing
then you'll want to mark this as yes
when it's marked as no then as you can
read here two people cannot be logged in
under the same admin account at the same
time if it detects that that's going on
it'll close down one of the sessions so
that's something to keep in mind if you
plan on doing things that way system is
fairly technical stuff
that you won't normally need to change
advanced will click on that one this one
is important to know it's not really all
that advanced this really just allows
you to disable extensions so if you've
installed something and you end up not
using it or worse it messes things up in
some way after you've started using it
you can disable it here so if our
cooking compliance extensions started
doing something weird to our website we
could simply disable that in the core
and save configuration but we're not
going to do that because we're not even
really using cookie compliance right now
it's not doing anything wrong and then
there are a couple final steps to take
just to sort of undo some of the things
that you've had in place this far make
sure that under stores configuration
sales payment methods you want to make
sure you switch your payment methods
here from sandbox to production for
whichever payments methods you are using
on your site so if we're using Braintree
will need to click configure make sure
our environment is not a sandbox anymore
but is production otherwise it's not
going to work for a production website
and that's just true for whichever one
of these methods are using if it's one
of these PayPal or whatever just make
sure you go into configure and change
environment to production and save your
configuration you need to do essentially
the same thing over here at shipping
methods particularly for think these
below the table rates you UPS USPS
notice currently for USPS this one's not
enabled but just assume we were using it
so if we want to do
USPS obviously we would need that marked
yes hopefully we would have already done
that at this point if we plan on using
it but we would also need to change mode
to live you need to make sure you're
live and not in development in order for
these shipping methods to function
properly you'll also need to turn off
your demo store notice if you have it
turned on as a reminder this is found
over at content configuration and edit
your store down here open up the HTML
head group
I know it's kind of a weird place for it
to be but this is where display demos
store notices we have not kept this on
for our tutorial so we don't need to do
anything here but if you were displaying
a demo store notice obviously you'll
want to turn that off before you go live
with your store and finally if you're
with the web host that offers a
temporary domain for you to work in like
I am make sure you switch the
production-ready site to the live domain
over at stores configuration general web
and then base URLs and base URLs secure
right now it's set to our temporary
domain and we would of course want to
change this and this to our live domain
the entire process of doing that of
going from development to production is
going to vary a little bit based on what
kind of server you're using or rather
what your web hosts limitations are you
may not have a temporary domain
especially if you're not using a web
host that specializes in Magento so you
may just be using your live domain all
along and developing there whatever the
case may be before you go live go to
this place and just make sure that you
have you a real domain in the base URL
and secure base URL and again to finish
everything off you're going to want to
save your configuration and flush your
cache as always and that wraps it up for
this tutorial thank you so much for
following me through this introduction
to Magento 2 and thanks again to Nexis
for sponsoring this series and for
providing the hosting environment for
this tutorials demonstration site
there's no getting around the fact that
Magento too can be a difficult platform
to learn and that at the time of this
recording there are still some bugs that
the developers should work out however
it remains a widely used and powerful
CMS for e-commerce sites at this point
you should have a basic understanding of
how to build your Magento to site how to
manage your store in the backend how to
create various types of products and how
to generally customize your site to look
and work the way you want it to from
here you should be comfortable enough to
explore it a little more on your own and
at least have a stepping off point for
figuring out most of the things that you
don't yet quite know how to do I'm
Robert ring with OS training and thanks
again for watching