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Try 3 Common Ways to Install Magento 2 Themes

Theme is a dispensable element of a website. A theme that is appropriate with products and services will drive more customer attention and encourage them to explore your website. Today, I will give you a general overview of Magento 2 Themes and how to install Magento 2 themes so that developers and merchants can understand and install quickly.

Overview of Magento 2 Themes

As you know, Magento 2 theme provides interfaces for both backend and frontend by combining templates, layouts, styles or images. Themes are put in the app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/ folder of Magento 2. 

A theme includes the following elements:

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It’s quite easy to configure Magento 2 themes step-by-step in the backend: 

Step 1: Navigate to Admin ⇒ Content Design Configuration.

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Step 2: Choose a store view you want to configure and click Edit 

Step 3: If you want to change the Default Theme, select a theme from the drop-down list to apply.

Step 4: In case you would like to use the theme for only one device, click Add New User Agent Rule in the Design Rule section.

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In Search String: enter the browser ID of the device, for example: /^mozilla/i

In Theme Name: select a theme to be used for the device. 

Step 5: Expand the Other Settings section and complete the following fields: 

  • Pagination: set up paginations to display at the top and bottom of the list, specifying product listings. 
  • HTML Head: includes settings corresponding to the <head> tag of an HTML page and to configures meta title, meta description, keywords, favicon,…
  • Header: contains settings to change the logo, customize width and height, alt text and welcome message. 
  • Footer: helps to update the copyright notice shown on the bottom of the page, and enter script placed before the <body> tag. 
  • Search Engine Robots: include settings to manage instructions of web crawlers and bots indexing the website. 
  • Product Image Watermark: helps to upload a small image to be displayed along with product images which can prevent other competitors from stealing.
  • Transaction Emails: configure the logo displayed in the header email.

Step 6: Click Save configurations. 

How to Install Magento 2 Themes

1. How to Install Magento 2 Theme manually 

  • Unzip the theme package
  • Run Upgrade and Deploy
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
  • Flush cache 

Use this command line to flush cache:

php bin/magento cache:clean
  • Active the theme 

Go to Admin ⇒ Content ⇒ Design ⇒ Configuration ⇒ Select your current theme: 

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Select a theme to install from the drop-down list. Then click Save Configurations to complete the installation. 

2. How to Install Magento 2 as a composer package

If your theme is used as a composer package, it is necessary to install it via the composer. The installation process is quite similar to the process of installing an extension. 

  • Purchase a theme from Magento Marketplace or other theme providers supporting composer.
  • Get the composer name of the theme on Marketplace 
  • Go to Magento root category and run this command: 
composer require <vendor>/<name>:<version>
  • Add the name of the theme into this command line.  
  • Activate the theme

Navigate to Admin ⇒ Content ⇒ Design ⇒ Configuration ⇒ Select your installed current theme and click Save Configurations.

3. How to Install Magento 2 on Marketplace

Installing a Magento 2 theme is quite similar to installing a Magento 2 extension on Marketplace. 

  • Login to your backend and navigate to Admin ⇒ System ⇒ Tools ⇒ Web Setup Wizard.

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  • Click Extension Manager section.
  • Enter the public key and private key that you get from Marketplace.

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Wait for some minutes to generate the lists of new updates. 

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  • Click Install under the new purchases and you are redirected to an extension grid. Then, select your theme and tap Install. 
  • Run Readiness Checkup, Create Backup and finish installing the theme. 
  • Finally, flush cache and go to Content ⇒Design ⇒ Themes to check the installed theme.

 

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