Author: Alex C.

When PrestaShop images not displaying on product pages, categories, or the home page, shoppers see broken icons instead of your catalog. The files are usually still on the server – PrestaShop just cannot serve the right path, size, or rewrite rule. This guide walks through a quick diagnose step, how images are stored, common causes, and the fixes that clear most cases without a full reinstall.

After a host move or a credential change, PrestaShop still reads its MySQL settings from a config file – not from the Back Office. If host, database name, user, or password no longer match the server, the storefront and admin stop loading. This guide shows how to change PrestaShop database connection settings safely, clear the cache that can keep old values, and check the usual failure messages.

As any other modern ecommerce CMS, PrestaShop allows you to create various discounts and sales. You can run a sale on some particular products or entire categories, offer discounts to specific customers or everyone… And all this with just a few clicks in your Back Office.

Here are the main types of discounts in PrestaShop.

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PrestaShop uses hooks for displaying content generated by various modules. Hook is a special code placed in a template file. When PrestaShop prepares a page for displaying, it replaces that hook code by content of all modules assigned to it.

By default, modules are displayed in the order in which they were installed. But, of course, you can change it.

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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.

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Native catalog search is fine on small shops. On large catalogs it can lag on every keystroke and every reindex. PrestaShop Sphinx search moves full-text matching to a dedicated engine so product lookups stay fast while PrestaShop still renders the product cards.

Your PrestaShop shop email shows up in order alerts, customer messages, and the address shoppers see on the store. Changing it is rarely one field – Mail Alerts, the store record, contact form recipients, and theme modules can each hold a different address. This guide walks through those places in the order that usually fixes the wrong inbox first.

If you have multiple languages installed in your shop, then all URLs will include language code. And even when you open the home page of your site you’ll get that language suffix, even for default language. It doesn’t look fine but fortunately you can fix this behavior.

This tutorial describes how to remove default language code from your URLs (usually “/en”).

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It’s really simple, you can do it in your Back Office.
This tutorial is relevant for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6. There is no such functionality in PS 1.7 by default.
Here’s what you need to do:

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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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