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First steps with PrestaShop 1.
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You must spend a good amount of time making sure every part of your future online shop is properly set up, secured, validated and ready for business.
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In your back office, go the "Shop Parameters / General" page. Maintenance options are on the second tab and it features two three simple settings:
- Enable Shop. Simply set it to "No", and your front-end will display the maintenance page to your visitors, which simply states that your shop will soon be back online.
- Maintenance IP. This is where you must put your own IP address, so that you can still get access to your front page, and browse your shop as if it was available to all. This is a must-do every time you put your shop in maintenance mode, as you will always need to browse your front-end so as to make sure everything is in place as intended.
Simply click on the "Add my IP" button. You can add more IP addresses by separating them with commas. - Custom maintenance text. New in 1.7. You can now display a message of your own on the maintenance page, to inform your visitors when the site will be back for instance.
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This would mean browsing through the many various screens of the back office and deleting content one page after the other, but there is much easier way:
- Go to the "Modules > Modules & Services" page.
- Find the "Database Cleaner" module and click its "Install" button.
- Click its "Configure" button.
- Read and accept the warning, then click the "Delete Catalog" button: it will delete all your products and their attributes, manufacturers, etc.
- Read and accept the warning, then click the "Delete Orders & Customers" button: it will delete all your customers and their orders, carts, etc.
- Click the "Check & fix" button to refine your database integrity constraints.
- Click the "Clean & optimize" button to reorganizes the physical storage of table data and associated index data, to reduce storage space and improve I/O efficiency when accessing the tables.
THERE IS NO WAY BACK. Be sure to only click these buttons if you do intend to wipe your database from its default content.
Configure your shop's information
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