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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By : Hayati Hashim
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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By: Hayati Hashim

Overview of this book

Themes in PrestaShop are unique and powerful tools to brand your store for a particular corporate image. Using custom themes you can control the look and functionality of your web store, thereby making your site extremely flexible. Although it might sound like an easy task to build a theme, it is quite challenging to create a custom theme that fits your business needs. This book's prime focus is guiding the readers without much technical know-how, thus enabling them to create a new theme that fulfills the needs of their PrestaShop store. By understanding practical ways to develop your theme for PrestaShop speedily, you can invest more time on developing attractive and unique raw materials. It will simplify the challenging task of creating a unique, new PrestaShop theme through easy-to-follow, practical steps. This book shows how to develop professional themes for your PrestaShop store using some simple steps. The book starts by exploring the various ways of changing the looks (including modules) of your PrestaShop store. It shows you how certain back office administration adjustments can affect the appearance and theme of your store. It then takes you through understanding the code modification of a default theme that results in a new look for your existing theme. The book also covers understanding the PrestaShop architecture and essential syntaxes that control the look of a PrestaShop store. You will also learn about the files that hold the key to themes. By the end of this book, you will have grasped the knowledge to make advanced changes by tweaking the right CSS and module files in order to achieve highly specific outcomes.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.3 ThemingBeginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
4
Adjusting Style Sheets
Index

Time for action—Creating a new theme directory


Copy your default PrestaShop theme and name it mytheme.

Go to your cPanel and look up for your PrestaShop theme directory (we covered this in Chapter 1, Customizing PrestaShop). You should see this in your themes directory.

The themes directory path is public_html/prestashop/themes/, if you want to keep the prestashop folder separate or /public_html/themes and if you installed the content of the /prestashop folder to your domain (This is if you installed your PrestaShop within the root home page). In our example, we have created a sub domain where we install prestashop in a separate folder. So we have public_html/yourdomainname/prestashop/themes/.

  1. Click on the default theme folder and then copy it.

  2. A pop-up window will prompt you to copy the folder to a location which is the same as the current theme file, as shown in the following screenshot. You can't copy in the same folder, so you need to create a new folder, say, "/mynewtheme/" for example...