Magento 2 Power Theming
71 lessons
4h 42m
You may have experienced the frustration of utilizing a third-party Magento theme. This, undoubtedly, lead to a horrible experience. Having a custom Magento theme is essential for a successful storefront. Fortunately, learning how to achieve this is within reach.
This course dives into frontend theme development, teaching you how to override, customize, and extend the Blank core theme in Magento. It covers building custom LESS/CSS files, finding and customizing template files, and understanding the layout XML layer. You'll also learn the intricacies of Magento frontend development, as well as adhering to Magento's best practices to build highly-performant, optimized themes.
Say goodbye to third-party themes 👋
Build your own highly-performant custom theme
Remove spaghetti theme code 🍝
Dealing with Magento third-party themes is one of, if not the most aggravating part of a Magento build.
This course teaches you all of the fundamentals to build your own custom theme, so you don't need to use those horrible off-the-shelf themes.
Learn visually
By watching the instructor program in front of your eyes, you will learn faster than trying to source and read documentation.
Full source code
After watching the lessons, easily reference the source code on GitHub to build out themes for your upcoming projects.
Layouts, Blocks, LESS & more 🎨
It can be very hard for someone to build a custom theme in Magento, even if they have years of experience.
Save time and eliminate the stress of trying to find all you need to learn by taking this course with a refined, strategically-organized course containing everything you need to know.
Code along while watching
Be able to pause, rewind, fast-forward, slow down, or speed up videos as you code along with the course. Find a comfortable pace for you.
Responsive-friendly
It can be difficult to understand how the theme fallback layer works along with LESS files and media queries. This course explains how things work in the most simplest way possible.
“I'm preparing for the Frontend Expert Certification exam, and the Power Theming course covered each topic in detail. For me, it was very helpful. Each concept was thoroughly explained by the explanations provided, which made it very easy for me to understand. I really appreciate you offering such a top-notch training. Again, thank you so much!”
Course curriculum
Each video lesson can be played back & referenced as many times as you wish at slow or fast speed, tech-friendly closed captions, enhanced transcriptions & full source code.
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71 lessons
4h 42m
Initial Setup & Configuration
Page Layouts
Generic Layouts
Containers, Blocks & Templates
Grunt
Page Configuration
LESS & Styling
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Frequently asked questions
- What will I get out of this course?
- Upon completing this course, you will have all of the basic knowledge to build a custom frontend theme for Magento 2. This includes building custom LESS/CSS files, finding and customizing template files, understanding the layout XML layer, customizing template files of third-party modules in your theme, and writing media queries in LESS, with all code adhering to Magento's coding guidelines & best practices.
- What do I need to know to take this course?
- Those new to Magento should first becoming familiar with Magento core development before taking this course. Knowledge of Knockout.js is not required, but is helpful if you want to dive a bit more deeper into customizing Magento template files with JavaScript.
- Do I need a development environment setup?
- Yes, this course assumes you have a running development environment of Magento setup and running locally. If you don't already have a development environment setup, please set one up before enrolling in the course. M.academy has a free course on how to Set Up a Magento 2 Development Environment with Docker, which is the recommend environment for Magento 2 development.
- Who is this course meant for?
- This course was designed to be consumed by developers with a working knowledge of Magento 2, who want to improve their frontend theming skills. Blank is Magento 2's main core theme of which Luma is built off of, and we'll go into detail on extending & customizing it in detail.
- What version of Magento is this based on?
- This course was created using concepts featured in Magento version 2.4. If a new best-practice approach is introduced in a future version of Magento 2, the course will be updated appropriately.
- Will I receive anything upon course completion?
- Upon completion of the course, you'll receive a certificate of completion signed by the course instructor. This demonstrates to potential employees that you have the basic underlying knowledge of creating a custom theme in Magento 2. If your employer offers continuing education stipends, you may also be able to use this certificate to get the cost reimbursed by your employer.
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