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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 an item as a Featured Product


To add FEATURED PRODUCTS to your front office home page, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Back Office | Catalog | Categories | and scroll down to Products in this Category.

  2. If you are using the default theme, you will see a list of product items that you can edit.

  3. Click on the pencil icon next to one of them (the edit icon on the right).

  4. You will be directed to the particular product page. Here, you will see a number of tabs within the page. The next screenshot illustrates what you will see in the back office:

  5. By default, this part opens with the Info tab as the landing page. This is quite a long page and you will need to scroll down to the Catalog section.

  6. In the Catalog section, mark the Home checkbox, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Here you can also enable the box setting where the new item should be categorized.

  7. Scroll down further, and click on the Save button. The item will now display in the FEATURED PRODUCTS section of your...