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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—Putting Categories in the horizontal top menu


In the default PrestaShop theme, the categories are listed in a CATEGORIES block. We have just learned how to have a link for categories in the top horizontal menu using the Wiznav module

Some would prefer a theme that will straight away show all the categories that we have in our store in a top menu where all the categories are displayed automatically as horizontal menus.

The next module used can simplify theming. It is the one that displays all the categories within the default categories block, spread into the top menu.

You may find the original discussion at: http://www.PrestaShop.com/forums/viewthread/26478.

  1. Download the module, which is referred to as blockcategoriestopsc 1.2.

  2. Install and enable the module.

  3. If you already have a horizontal top menu, as we discussed earlier, it will appear on top of it.

  4. You need to set the width through the configuration page.

  5. You will get the following:

  6. You will need to edit the droppy.css file...