The Ultimate Guide to Using Magmi
Welcome to the updated & revised Magmi course!
This is version 2 of the original Magmi course we created over a year ago and taking on board the thousands of questions & comments from business owners like yourself, we’ve made getting to grips using Magmi easier than ever before.
If you’d like to learn how to create & update products in Magento faster than ever before than this course is for you. If you’d like to learn the advanced features of Magmi, then this course is also for you.
Course Introduction Video
Press Play on the video below to find out everything you’re going to learn in this course.
Who is this Course For?
- This course is aimed specifically at users of Magento that have no prior knowledge of using Magmi.
- However advanced users, such as developers will appreciate the “bonus” tutorials that cover specific plugins in much more depth
What Will You Learn in This Course?
We work to a methodology of Crawl > Walk > Run, so starting with the basics you’ll get Magmi up & running in no time.
For ease this course is broken into two parts, the “Basics” and “Bonus” tutorials.
In the “Basics” part you’ll learn how to get up & running with Magmi quickly using lots of practical examples.
Follow us along will together we learn how to install Magmi, how to update product prices & stock levels and then move on to more complex operations, such as creating configurable products.
And in the “Bonus” tutorials, this is where we cover the advanced options to using Magmi.
You’ll learn the quick way of creating lots of categories in Magento, to how to change your Magmi database details over if you move hosting accounts. We even go as far as how to programmatically create & update products in Magento using the Magmi “Data Pump API” and for huge imports, you’ll learn how to use the Magmi CLI interface too.
A full list of the available tutorials are below. There will be a minimum of 36 tutorials when the course is fully complete.
What is Needed to Start this Course?
You’ll need 3 things to be able to make the most from this course.
- A basic understanding of Magento ( If you don’t have this yet, see this free course )
- A Magento install hosted on the internet ( we just mean normal web hosting, not a “localhost” install )
- And UnderstandingE Premium Account ( You can join or upgrade here )
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If you’re an existing member you can login here or if you’re new here, then you can join for free here and to access this course you’ll need a Premium subscription.
Lessons
1. Magmi Course Introduction
In this tutorial you'll find out what you're going to be learning as part of this course on using Magmi, the versatile import tool for Magento.
2. Say Hello to Magmi
Magmi is the Swiss Army knife among the import tools for Magento. In this tutorial, you’re going to see how Magmi compares to Magento Dataflow, what makes Magmi a fantastic import tool and which of its features catches everyone out.
3. How To Install Magmi
Magmi can be complicated to setup, you need to get the file permissions right, copy the details from your systems local.xml file, the plugins are not included by default, neither are the profiles and frankly it's 100% Nerd, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this guide we'll show you how to install Magmi using our custom built installation script that includes several key additions
4. Your First Import with Magmi
The easiest way of importing products into Magento is through Magmi. This tutorial shows you how to update the price of one of your products in Magento using Magmi.
5. Using Magmi for Stock Updates
In this tutorial, you'll gonna learn how to update the price and quantity of your stocks in Magento using Magmi.
6. The Required Columns for Magmi Import Files
In this tutorial, you learned how to use Magmi – and all of its required columns – when importing files into Magento in the real-life setting.
7. Updating Magento Attributes with Magmi
In this tutorial we will show you how to find the Magento attribute codes and how to use Magmi to update any custom attribute in your system.
8. Using and Creating Magento Categories with Magmi
The UnderstandingE version of Magmi comes with a bundle of standard Magmi plugins, including the very useful Categories plugin. This tutorial shows you how to create three categories in your Magento system using Magmi.
9. Importing Images with Magmi
In this tutorial, you will be introduced to the image processor plugin, one of the many Magmi plugins bundled in with the UnderstandingE version of Magmi and how to use Magmi to import local and remote images into Magento.
10. A Real-Life Example of Creating Products with Magmi
This tutorial shows you real-life examples of creating products in Magento using Magmi, you will learn how to import multiple images for a single product as well as add a product to a new subcategory.
11. Configurable Products & Magmi (Theory)
Magmi can save you from spending an immense amount of time creating and updating configurable products in Magento. This tutorial simplifies Magmi and configurable products to ensure you learn the process without a hitch.
12. Configurable Products with Magmi - One variation
This tutorial will show you the steps to creating a product with one variation.
13. Configurable Products with Magmi - Two variations
Time to step up a gear and learn how to create a configurable product with two variations in Magento using Magmi. This tutorial shows you how to create the size and colour variations of a configurable product in Magento.
14. Enabling the M2E Pro Magmi Plugin
In this tutorial we show you how you can add the new M2E Pro Magmi plugin to your Magento system to ease the load of M2E Pro when importing your products.
15. How to Automatically Reindex Magento
In this tutorial you'll learn how to set your Magento system to automatically reindex twice (or more) per day. This then means that any changes you make using Magmi will be reflected on the frontend of your Magento site.
16. The Top 10 Mistakes Other People Make with Magmi
There are 10 common mistakes other people make when using Magmi. Find out what they are so you don't make them too!
17. Well Done!
Congratulations! You’ve finally reached the end of this course, and you’re now fully equipped to import products into Magento using Magmi.
18. How to Delete Products with Magmi
The delete plugin in the UnderstandingE version of Magmi is very useful, as it gives you the ability to delete a bulk of products. This tutorial shows you the right way of using the delete plugin in Magmi.
19. Creating Lots of Categories Quickly Using Magmi
Your category structures in Magento are integral to your website and online store(s), but creating them is unarguably time-consuming. In this tutorial, you’re going to learn the fast and easy way of creating lots of Magento categories using Magmi.
20. Column Mapper Plugin
In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how Magmi imports a CSV file that has column headers Magento cannot identify by using a special plugin called column mapper.