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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 "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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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 texts on the homepage?

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You can also create your own .tpl file (located in your theme directory), where 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.

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How to correctly import accentuated content using a CSV file?

If you make a CSV Import import with accentuated texts, beware to select UTFbe 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" sub-tab page of the "Tools" tab, and be sure that the .csv file has been saved with the same encoding.If needed, save the CSV file from you 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++), specifying the right 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 installinstallation. This can only be done if you do have access to your server's PHP configuration files. If not, ask your host.

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

post_max_size = 200M
upload_max_filesize = 200M

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PrestaShop enables you to automatically send a large number 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.).

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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. (Optional) To change the default color (which is pink: #DB3484), change the hexadecimal value to your preferred color value.

5. Save the file.

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

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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 for in the "To fields" field. 
4. Then you can start translating:
   
   1. Got 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"back-office, modules, etc.).
5. Your own language is now totally translated! Test, test, test! Have your friends test it too!

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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.