Sometimes during the work on the site you may want to make it temporarily inaccessible for visitors. In PrestaShop you can use maintenance mode for such purposes.
It may be useful during initial website development or while updating etc.
This article describes how to enable maintenance mode.
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So you want to create a new page. It’s really easy, you just need to write a few lines of code.
This tutorial is for PrestaShop 1.6. Other versions are similar but can slightly differ.
Continue reading How to create a new page using module front controller
Sometimes you may need to clear the cache of your PrestaShop website. Basically, it’s necessary when you’ve made some changes to your site, but they are not displayed.
This article describes how to clear Smarty Cache and all other cache types.
Sometimes you might want to see detailed error reports in your PrestaShop store.
You just need this information when you see a blank error page or short text: “Error 500”.
Here are short instructions to see PrestaShop debug information.
Continue reading How to turn on error reporting in PrestaShop
Back Office language can be set separately for every employee. And for changing it you need to go to the employee’s settings.
Continue reading How to change Back Office language in PrestaShop
You may want to change database information after moving your site to a new server or after changing database credentials.
If you need to modify db name or password, you have to edit the settings file. You can do it by using a FTP client (for example Filezilla).
Continue reading How to change PrestaShop database name and password
If you are using SMTP in your shop email configuration, then you could encounter the following problem – you are not getting e-mail notifications about new messages from contact form. And all other mails are sending fine.
Continue reading Fix PrestaShop contact form not sending mails.
You can easily reset your admin password if you forgot it. There are two main ways.
Continue reading How to reset the admin password in PrestaShop
You should always have a backup.
Your shop could be damaged by everything – malware infection, crazy developers, hosting problems etc. But if you have an up-to-date backup, then you are safe.
You can hide your suppliers and manufacturers data from your site. Maybe you do not want to show them to everyone, maybe you just don’t use these features – so let’s hide them.
Continue reading How to remove pages of suppliers and manufacturers in PrestaShop
