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Finally, a section lists the latest themes from the Addons site, and you can click on any of them to reach their page, and possibly download them.

Installer des thèmes

Once you have downloaded a theme from the Addons online store, it's up to you have it installed on your PrestaShop site.

To install a new PrestaShop theme:

  1. Unzip (decompress) the themearchive file (.zip). This should result in at least one new local folder, /themes, containing your theme's folder(s).
  2. Using your FTP client, place the theme's folder (as found in the local /themes folder) online in your PrestaShop /themes folder. Pay attention NOT to upload that folder in another theme's folder (which can happen when drag-and-dropping items). Upload the whole folder, not just the files it contains.
  3. (optional) If the theme's archive contains a second /modules folder, that means your new theme comes bundled with modules that are specific to it, or necessary to its functionning. Using your FTP client, place the folder(s) found in the local /modules folder online in your PrestaShop /modules folder. If your online PrestaShop install already has a module of the same name, try to only keep the most recent version of the two (the one with the most recent files). If unsure, keep the version bundled with the theme, as it is the most likely to work best with it.
  4. Go to your back-office, in the "Modules" tab then it "Themes" sub-tab.
  5. Select the new theme in place of the current theme, by clicking on the radio button then clicking "Save".
  6. Your module is now in place.
  7. (optional) If the theme came with modules, activate them on the "Modules" tab within the PrestaShop admin, then configure them if need be.

Many themes come with an accompagnying Install.txt file, which gives you instructions. Make sure to follow them in order to not forget anything.

Once configuration is complete, be sure to test the theme immediately, every page of it, to confirm that it works as planned. Do try to make a full order, from A to Z – you wouldn't want to miss orders just because you didn't notice the theme was incomplete!

Positions

The order in which modules' front-office interface are displayed can be customized – because you might want one module to be place much higher (or lower) in the page that others. In PrestaShop's jargon, this is called "transplanting", and is done using the tool available under the "Positions" sub-tab for the "Modules" tab. In effect, this enables you to attach a module to one of the many available hooks in the current theme, without writing any code.

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