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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

Packaging the new theme


Packaging your own unique theme for PrestaShop can involve slightly more than just letting your new theme be installed and run automatically, the same way as you created it.

When you want to package your theme, consider having a step-by-step readme file for anyone wanting to use your theme.

If you have made the theme on your local computer, you will need to zip the file and upload it to the PrestaShop site you want to use it on.

When your theme is ready, you must place a file representing the theme called preview.jpg in the theme's root folder (for example, ../themes/mytheme). This file must be a 100x100 pixels .jpg file. More detail on this is discussed in Chapter 8, Deploying Your New Themes.

In the previous version of PrestaShop v1.2.5.0, it was possible to change the name and description in themes/mytheme/config/conf.xml. However, the config folder was deleted in PrestaShop v1.3.

It is not possible to define the theme name, version, author, and description in PrestaShop...