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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—Deploying from the same host


If the theme is to be used in another domain within the same hosting, you can simply do the following:

  1. Go to your server's file administration (or cPanel)

  2. Find and and open the new theme folder (say, mytheme) from your development site (say we refer to it as domain1).

  3. Copy the file /domain1/prestashop/themes/ to your production site (for example, refer to it as domain2) at /domain2/prestashop/themes/.

  4. Copy your modules directory in your development site to /themes/ domain2/modules/ or create a new module directory within the mytheme folder.

  5. Go to your Back Office | Preferences | Appearance and select the new theme (mytheme) as your active theme. Click on the Save button.

  6. Go to your front office to preview if your theme has already been applied.

  7. Upload the new Header Logo, Favicon, and Homepage logo, as we had learned in the previous chapters.

  8. Configure the module in the same way you did when you developed them through your back office Modules tab. By...