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Which are the data from my shop that the PrestaShop company has access to?

Here is the answer in English and in French.

What are the PrestaShop license restrictions, if any?

PrestaShop is issued released under the Open Software License (OSL) v. 3.0. Its modules are released under the Academic Free License 3.0.

How can I modify the default theme or build a new theme?

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See the documentation on the "SEO & URLs" preferences page.

How do I translate PrestaShop into my language?

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See the documentation on the "Localization" menu.

How do I

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Use the Google Adsense module.

Note that the Google Adsense module can be used to display ad code from any ad service, not just the ones from Google Adsense.

How do I activate the GD Library?

Here is the standard Windows instructions are:

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See the documentation for the "Modules" menu, mostly the "Installing a payment module" section.

How do I select which

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featured products are displayed on the

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homepage?

You need to associate the product to the homepage category. For each product you want displayed on the front-page, open the "Association" tab and select the "Home" category, in addition to the already-checked category.

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How do I add and modify taxes in PrestaShop?

Go to the "TaxeTaxes" and "Tax rules" pages of the "Localization" menu.

See the documentation for the "Localization" menu.

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See the documentation for the "Orders" menu.

How do I edit text for "About us", "Delivery", "Legal notice" and "Conditions"?

In the back-office, navigate to "Preferences" > "CMS", and select the pages you want to edit.

How do I edit/remove texts and images from the section right above the footer?

The default theme features 5 icons with a bit of text:

• Money back guarantee
• In-store exchange
• Payment upon shipment
• Free shipping
• 100% secure payment processing

These are all "reassurance" text: text that is only present to reassure your potential customers, let them know that your store is trustworthy.

While it is important to reassure your client, not all of this applies to your store: you might not have stores to retrieve products from, or your might not offer free shipping. Therefore, you need to change this. Here is how:

1. Go to the Modules / Modules page.
2. Open the configuration screen for the "Customer reassurance block"
3. Edit, remove and add sections at will!

How do I change the default images and

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texts on the homepage?

The default theme for PrestaShop features an image slider. You can edit that slider by configuring the "Image slider for your homepage" module, which can be found in the "Modules" page of the back-office.

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• using your FTP client, go to your web server’s FTP, and open the file "defines.inc.php", which is in the "/config" folder. There's a bunch of text, then this appears:

  Code Block
  /* Debug only */ define('_PS_MODE_DEV_', false); if (_PS_MODE_DEV_)

• change that second line: replace "false" with "true" (without quotes). It should now read:

  Code Block
  /* Debug only */ define('_PS_MODE_DEV_', true); if (_PS_MODE_DEV_)

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Open the maintenance.tpl file with a text editor, and edit at will. Be careful not to break the Smarty tags (marked {tag} or {/tag}) ; make sure to keep a backup in the folder, for instance under the name maintenance-originalFile.tpl.

What should I do if PrestaShop does not send me my new password?

The request to reset the password only works if the SMTP server has been configured so that PrestaShop is able to send emails.

Two solutions present themselves to you:

1. Configure the SMTP server to send emails.
   1. Get information for SMTP connection from your hosting provider.
   2. Go to your back office (either you or an administrator who can still log), "Preferences" tab, "E-Mails" subtab.
   3. Select the "Use my own SMTP settings." A form will appear: fill it with the information given by your host.
   4. Save your changes.
   5. Request a new password once again. You should receive it.
2. Follow these steps:
   1. Choose a new password. In our example, "$$$rabbit$159$$$".
   2. Using your FTP client, open the login.php file, located in your administration folder online.
      At the bottom of the file, add the following line:
      echo md5( PSQL( _COOKIE_KEY_ . 'newpassword' ) );
      So with our example password:
      echo md5( PSQL( _COOKIE_KEY_ . '$$$rabbit$159$$$' ) );
      Remember to put your own new password!
3. Go to the login screen to the back-office, as if you wanted to log in, and copy the text that appears at the bottom of the page (eg.: a0ee884b507dd4624ce51968cfbb19a9)
4. Go to the PrestaShop database, for example using phpMyAdmin. In the ps_employee table, replace the existing value in the passwd column for the employee of which you want to change the password with the value obtained in the previous step. Save your changes.
5. You can now connect with the usual username and new password.

How to modify a page's display?

You have to add your own selectors in your theme's CSS file. This file is usually found in /themes/YOUR_THEME/css/global.css.

Once created, you can use your selectors in the .tpl page you want to modify.

How to create your own page/template?

You can also create your own .tpl file (located in your theme directory), in which you can insert your own HTML tags, and create a .php page (at the root of your shop) which will call the .tpl file.

Here is an example:

First, your_page.php:

<?php
include(dirname(__FILE__).'/config/config.inc.php');
include(dirname(__FILE__).'/header.php');

$smarty->display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'your_page.tpl');

include(dirname(__FILE__).'/footer.php');
?>

In this example, the your_page.tpl file contains your HTML code (which can use Smarty calls).

How to correctly import accentuated content using a CSV file?

If you make a CSV import with accentuated texts, be sure that the .csv file has been saved eith with the UTF-8 or iso-8859-1 encoding. If it is using iso-8859-1, make sure to indicate that in the "Import" page of the "Advanced parameters" menu. PrestaShop's default encoding is UTF-8.

If the CSV file does not use any of these encodings, open it in a text-editor (such as Notepad++), and save it using the UTF-8 encoding.

How to change the maximum size of uploaded files to your server?

To change the maximum size of the uploaded files in your server, you have to edit the php.ini file for your PHP installation. This can only be done if you do have access to your server's PHP configuration files. If not, ask your host.

If you do have access to php.ini, open it and edit the following lines:

post_max_size = [anything]
upload_max_filesize = [anything]

If you want to set the maximum to 200 megabytes, change their values to:

post_max_size = 200M
upload_max_filesize = 200M

Finally, restart the server to take your changes into account.

How to add a link or an image to customize the mails sent to your customers?

PrestaShop enables you to automatically send a great variety of mails to your customers (order confirmations, site subscriptions, out of stock notifications, etc.). It might be useful to customize these mails: adding images, links to survey forms or information pages (blogs, news, etc.).

Let's say your company wants to customize the e-mail sent automatically to customers after a purchase, in order to redirect them to a survey form.

To add a link in the mails sent to your English-speaking customers, you have to:

1. Go to the /mails/en directory from your shop root.
2. Edit the HTML template relative to the mail you want to modify: for instance, order_conf.html is the e-mail sent for new orders.

3. Insert the link to the survey right in the HTML code (static):

   Code Block
   html html
   <a href="http://www.myshop.com/survey.php">Click here if you want to participate to our survey!</a>

   or a dynamic link with your logo:

   Code Block
   html html
   <a href="{shop_url}" title="{shop_name}"><img alt="{shop_name}" src="{shop_logo}" style="border:none;"></a>

4. Save the file.

Now the link will be added in every new mail sent after a purchase.

How to create a new translation?

Follow these steps:

1. Go to your PrestaShop back-office, in the "Localization" menu, and its "Languages" page.
2. Add a new language: click the "Add" button on the top right of the table. Fill in the various fields:
   
   1. The name must be clearly labeled: English, French, Danish, Chinese... Make sure to use the correct language name, and write it fully.
   2. The ISO code must be from the ISO 636-1 list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes. Be very precise: the system will check whether a language pack already exists for that ISO code
   3. PrestaShop uses FamFamFam's flag set, which you can download here: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/.
   4. Don’t forget to activate the language.
   5. Save your changes.
3. In order to help you get started with the translation, you must copy the strings from the another installed language to your own:
   
   1. Go to the "Translations" page of the "Localization" menu.
   2. In the "Copy" section: use the default language along with the default theme in the "From" fields, and your new language along with its theme in the "To" field. 
4. Then you can start translating:
   
   1. Go to the "Modify translations" section at the top of the "Translations" page.
   2. Choose "Front Office Translations" in the drop-down list, then click on the flag of your new language.
   3. Start translating the fields.
   4. Click "Save the modifications" once it all seems correct to you.
   5. Repeat this step for each type of translation (back-office, modules, etc.).
5. Your own language is now totally translated! Test, test, test! Have your friends test it too!

If you want to contribute it to the PrestaShop project, you can propose your new translation to the PrestaShop Team. In the "Export a language" section, select the new language; in the following fields select "prestashop" then click "Export". Save this file and send it to [email protected] with as subject "New translation: XX", with "XX" being the ISO code of the language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes).

You have contributed to the PrestaShop project! Thank you so much!

How to translate the administration menus?

While you can change the translation for all the strings within the PrestaShop administration, you cannot edit the names of the administration menus (Catalog, Orders, Customers, etc.) and their submenus (Products, Categories, Monitoring, etc.).

This is because these strings are not part of the translation files, but are stored directly within the database. In order to change it, you must go to the "Menus" page of the "Administration" menu.

This page displays a list of all the top-level menus in your administration, and you can also display their submenus by clicking on the "+" icon in the "Action" column.

From there, you can click on the "edit" icon for the menu or submenu you wish the change the name of. In the page that displays, click the flag next to the "Name" field in order to choose the languages for wish you want to translate the menu (you must have the target language already installed!), or directly change the name in the current language.

Save your changes: the administration is immediately updated with your new translation.

Note that this means you cannot send your menu translation to another shop. The manager of that other shop must perform these steps himself.