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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—Adding YouTube or other video element


Now, there are plenty of "add YouTube" modules for PrestaShop on the net. As they are mostly free modules, you will need to read some reviews or test them before actually using any of them.

The one that I have used here was obtained from the PrestaShop forum, but the link to the demo is missing.

  1. You can download the zip file of the YouTube module at: http://www.PrestaShop.com/forums/viewthread/0352

    In case you cannot find it, I will just explain the module a bit.

    These files are basically similar to the editorial module you have on your default PrestaShop. There are three key files in the default editorial module, which are editorial.php, editorial.xml, and editorial.tpl.

    For the YouTube module, the names are slightly different. The file is named as editorialyoutube.tpl. You can see the files that you will find in the editorialyoutube module in the following screenshot:

  2. Once downloaded, you may either use it on your localhost or upload it...