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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – creating a Quick access


Here is how to do it:

  1. Click on the Administration tab and then on Quick Access.

  2. Now click on the Add new button (with the + sign).

  3. For the Name value, type Database backup.

  4. For the URL value, type index.php?controller=AdminBackup.

  5. Save your changes and try out your new quick access.

If you are looking to make your own quick accesses, then you are probably wondering how to get the value for the URL field. Go to the tab you are making the quick access and copy the URL on your browser. Then delete everything before index.php and everything from &token. I have copied the following database backup URL and highlighted the parts to delete so that you can see exactly what to delete and what to use:

http:/shop.com/adminpassword123456/index.php?controller=AdminBackup&token=37a0e13f7

What just happened?

We made a quick access shortcut to the database backup feature. You can make quick access shortcuts to anything that is useful to you. The database backup...