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Smarty language is PrestaShop selection for its templating system. A large number of theme file contents are saved in Smarty cache folder. Sometimes, when you install a new template or enable/disable modules, your website content does not show the latest changes. This is because PrestaShop is still showing the old cached content and not the latest changes made by you. In this case, the solution is to clear the cache of your PrestaShop store. Depending on the PrestaShop version you are using, the method to clear the cache varies. For PrestaShop version 1.4.x.x Manually In PrestaShop 1.4, you can find cached data stored in these following folders of your PrestaShop’s installation main folder: /tools/smarty/cache /tools/smarty/compile /tools/smarty_v2/cache /tools/smarty_v2/compile You should delete the content of these folders to clear Prestashop cached data. Reload your website in your web browser to take a look at the changes you have made. Automatically Login to the Admi...

PrestaShop is now one of the most popular e-commerce platforms. It has been helping over 270.000 merchants around the world achieve many sales goals. But what should you do when something is not right about your online store? In most cases, you will have to check the error itself by enabling the PrestaShop debug mode. [toc] In what cases you need to enable debug mode? The debug mode is generally used to see the errors in your shop and when: you get blank pages; you get 500 Internal Server Error; you have some strange issues with your shop and don’t know where to start. Enable debug mode on PrestaShop 1.7 Automatically Step 1 : Login to your PrestaShop Dashboard. Select “Advanced Parameters” menu tab > “Performance”. Step 2: In “Debug” block, set the “Debug mode” option to Yes . Save your settings. There are also two other settings available: Disable non PrestaShop modules: you can define whether the issue comes from the native PrestaShop code or thirty-party mo...

First of all, what is a sitemap? Sitemap is a file in which you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the connections between them. Search engines like Google read this file to craw your site smartly. A sitemap is necessary to increase the indexing speed of your website. To create a PrestaShop sitemap in PrestaShop 1.7, you will have to install and configure a special “Google Sitemap” module. Install Google sitemap for your PrestaShop store Google Sitemap module helps you build a map of your PrestaShop store and update it after that. To expand the speed of site indexing by search engines, it is critical to have a sitemap, which is basically an XML file listing all the products and pages of the store. Using this file, search engines effortlessly index all pages of a website. From that point forward, the products on these pages can be shown in search results when a user makes a search query. You can download this Google Sitemap module for your...

One of the extraordinary features of PrestaShop is the capacity to create and manage multiple stores within a single installation of the software. Clearly, from an admin side, it’s much easier to update one instance of the core software and any modules you’re using rather than having to backup, upgrade and trying to keep them all aligned with each other in terms of data and file versions. Should you enable the multistore functionality in PrestaShop? It depends entirely on your business model, but in this article, I’ve listed below some of the main reasons why PrestaShop multistore is a recommended feature for every shop owners. Why you should set up PrestaShop multistore? You need to run retail and trade stores, selling products at different prices for both trade and retail customers . The trade store can be hidden from search engines and/or customers unless they are logged in, especially when you want to keep your trading price secret. Your product’s price varies in different coun...

PrestaShop is a free, open-source e-commerce platform which can help you build your own online store. After deciding which version of PrestaShop is suitable for your requirement, you will need to pick one more important thing – your shop theme. On PrestaShop Official Add-ons Marketplace you can find thousands of premium templates from various categories. But if you’re new with PrestaShop and want to search for some free themes, I’m bringing to you top 5 free PrestaShop 1.7 themes on different niches. All the themes on this list are fully responsive and compatible with PrestaShop 1.7.x Pts Diana Pts Diana is a responsive PrestaShop theme which can display perfectly on any screen sizes (desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone). Diana is the accomplished combination of slider, layout and color that help you attract customers at the first sight. Diana is designed and built with the latest web technologies: Bootstrap, Font Awesome, SASS, HTML5 and CSS3 together with awesome features su...

If you’re a PrestaShop store owner, it’s normal to be interested in the new PrestaShop 1.7 version. You have a plan to move from PrestaShop 1.6 to the latest release however not certain about the additional benefits the new version offers? On this article, we will look at the differences between PrestaShop 1.6 and PrestaShop 1.7 in order to figure out what we’re in for. With this, you can easily take the right decision. Let’s find out! Helping Users The primary goal of the PrestaShop 1.7 developers is helping users with the task of overcoming the sometimes daunting challenges that are inherent when they build and launch their online business. The highlight features were designed specifically for allowing all PrestaShop 1.7 users with delivering more high-quality website content and transferring it much faster. An Overview About PrestaShop 1.7 PrestaShop 1.7 is a new version of the famous PrestaShop e-commerce platform that is opening the way to an all-new and innovative method o...

Our top e-commerce platform review series is getting to the last part. So far, we have learned about the difference between PrestaShop and Shopify, OpenCart, Magento. Each offers a unique way to build your own e-commerce store. On this article, we will discover the most serious competitor to PrestaShop – WooCommerce. Let’s get down to business! An introduction to PrestaShop and WooCommerce WooCommerce was released by WooThemes back in 2011. In 2015, it was acquired by Automattic – WordPress owner. By far, WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform in the world that empowers millions of online stores. WooCommerce makes it super simple to add an online store to your WordPress website just by installing the plugin. PrestaShop is an open source e-commerce platform created back in 2005 in France. It is completely free to download and use. Currently, there are over 270,000 live stores using it and it originally gained popularity because of an intuitive dashboard and rich default...