Magetique Documentation
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of a Magetique template!
We did our best to make this manual information to be presented in a simple, straightforward manner. For ease of reference, the text the manual provides has been restructured in different chapters, you can see in the leftside menu. You are able to navigate to any part of the documentation, using the active content headers' links.
We recommend you start reading the documentation at the first section.
We worked hard to deliver some of the best functionality, performance and flexibility that can be found in a single Magento 2 theme. We hope that your experience with this product is going to let you build a more sustainable and successful business without having to worry about optimization, design and maintenance.
We created a well-rounded suite of Magento 2 extensions, that come with the theme, in order to cover practically any aspect of running an eCommerce business. Our goal was to provide unprecedented value for growing businesses, because we understand that building a store requires a lot of resources.
Our designers worked hard to provide the best visual layouts for your store. These were carefully crafted to shape a very satisfying customer journey for your clients. Navigation is simple. Search is snappy. Product details are rich. Everything that a person needs, in order to get to that checkout page, was accounted for in the design process.
Why Magetique is the best Magento 2 theme?
Design
It includes 5 amazing layouts that work for practically any eCommerce niche. It also contains pre-made elements that you can easily add to your pages, if you feel like experimenting with the design. Every best practice for seamless user experience was accounted for. We took special care of the design’s responsiveness – the theme looks amazing on any mobile device [Retina displays included].
Functionality
Over 15 extensions that include maintenance, upsell, marketing and store management modules. This package, valued at $1600+, only comes with this Magetique.
Customization and Flexibility
Edit design layouts, edit color patterns, edit page elements, change headers, mix footers, change layouts, play with product grids. These are just some of the customization features of this amazing theme.
Performance
Top scores in all of the most popular page analysis tools, like GTMetrix. Our code was carefully put together by some of the brightest Magento 2 developers and scanned for any errors, to make sure that your store doesn’t experience any downtime.
Excited? Let’s go, onward to sales and overflowing order queues!
Magento files structure
The theme package you have downloaded consists of several folders. Let's see what each folder contains:
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- documentation
- contains documentation files.
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- documentation.html
- a main documentation file you are reading at the moment.
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- screenshots
- contains the theme screenshots. Not for production.
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- sources
- contains the theme source files.
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- psd
- contains the theme Adobe Photoshop source files [.psd].
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- demo
- contains additional pages and custom blocks provided with the theme.
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- sample_data
- contains Magento theme sample data files.
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- pub
- contains files and directories that should be uploaded to the root directory of your Magento installation.
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- dump.sql.gz
- the database backup file. Contains the theme sample content.
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- theme###
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contains Magento theme files and directories that should be uploaded to the root directory of your Magento installation.
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- fullpackage.zip
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contains the complete Magento installation package with engine files, theme and sample content [sample images].
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- unzip.php
- the file used to extract files from the fullpackage.zip when uploaded to the hosting server.
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- fonts_info.txt
- contains the links where the template custom fonts can be downloaded.
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- info.txt
- contains instructions on how to extract source files.
Validation
Preparation
Before you proceed to set up your Magento store, please make sure you are fully prepared. Please complete the following preparation steps:
Editing software
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First, you need to use WinZip 9+ (for Windows) and Stuffit Expander 10+ (for Mac) to extract the password protected sources_#########.zip archive.
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You may also need the Adobe Photoshop application. It is used to edit .PSD source files, and it is necessary if you want to edit template design graphics and images.
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To edit template source code files, you need some code editor like Adobe Dreamweaver, Notepad++, Sublime Text, etc.
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To upload files to the hosting server you may need an FTP Manager like Total Commander, FileZilla, CuteFTP, etc.
Hosting
As Magento Commerce is a PHP/MySQL based application, you need to prepare a hosting environment to run Magento.
If you have a live hosting, please make sure it matches the Magento requirements:
- Apache 2.2 or 2.4 with mod_rewrite, mod_version or nginx 1.x
- MySQL 5.6, 5.7
- Supported versions: PHP 7.1.3+, PHP 7.2.x
- PHP extensions: bc-math, ctype, curl, dom, gd, intl, mbstring, hash, openssl, PDO/MySQL, SimpleXML, soap, spl, libxml, xsl, zip, json, iconv.
NOT SUPPORTED: PHP 5.4, PHP 7.0.0, 7.0.1, PHP 7.0.2 - 7.0.5, PHP 7.0.6 - 7.0.x, PHP 7.1
You can run Magento locally (on your computer) using the local server. To create a local hosting server please use the localhost applications, such as WAMP, AppServ, MAMP etc. Any of those can be easily installed as any other software and used to run Magento.