Author: Alex C.

A weak PrestaShop search box wastes traffic: shoppers type a product name, see empty or odd results, and leave. Most of the fix lives in Shop Parameters → Search – aliases for typos, a complete index, fuzzy matching, and field weights. This guide walks through those settings in the order that usually improves findability first.

PrestaShop CSV import is the Back Office tool for loading catalog and customer data in bulk – supplier price sheets, a new category tree, or products copied from another shop. This guide covers file prep, the Advanced Parameters → Import wizard, the options that matter, and the mistakes that usually break a run.

If you’re a PrestaShop user, you may have faced issues during the installation or updating of modules. These problems can be frustrating, but knowing how to address them can make your e-commerce management more effective.

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Are you noticing that your PrestaShop emails are ending up in your customers’ spam folders? This can create a significant problem for your online shop. After all, clear communication with customers is the backbone of any successful online business. If your emails end up in the spam folder, customers might miss important updates about their orders or your latest offers. Our goal in this article is to help you understand and solve this problem by providing actionable steps to prevent your PrestaShop emails from being marked as spam.

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A PrestaShop sitemap tells search engines which product, category, and CMS URLs matter on your store. Without one, Google still crawls links it finds, but larger catalogs and new pages often get discovered slower. This guide covers the XML sitemap for crawlers and the public Sitemap page for shoppers, plus how to generate, submit, and maintain the file.

A PrestaShop robots.txt file tells crawlers which paths they may fetch. It is crawl control, not a lock on indexing – and a bad rule can hide category pages or CSS while leaving thin URLs crawlable. This guide covers the Back Office generator, safe edits, and how to verify the live file without guessing.

Starting your own online shop can be an exciting venture. If you’ve chosen PrestaShop for your e-commerce platform, here’s a simple 7-step guide to setting up your first PrestaShop store.

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When order confirmations, contact-form replies, or password resets never arrive, you are dealing with PrestaShop email problems – not a broken checkout. Most cases come down to the mail method (sendmail vs SMTP), a “Never send emails” leftover from staging, wrong module recipients, or the message landing in spam. This checklist walks through the Back Office screens that usually fix delivery first.

Keeping your PrestaShop store up-to-date is vital for smooth operations, security, and ensuring the best experience for your customers. This article gives you a clear, straightforward guide on how to upgrade your PrestaShop store safely.

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Friendly URL is on, yet product links still look like index.php?id_product=12 – or every pretty path returns 404. PrestaShop URL rewriting only works when the Back Office toggle, the root rewrite file (Apache), and the web server rules agree. This is a 5-step checklist: pick your symptom, confirm the shop setting, fix the server layer, prove one URL, then clean duplicates and old 404s.