Technical insights, coding tutorials, and development guides for PrestaShop, WordPress, and e-commerce platforms.
PrestaShop offers merchants a great feature – multistore (or multishop). It allows you to manage multiple shops in one place. You can create several virtual shops, assign them different domains, set different templates, write different texts and still manage them in only one Back Office.
And here is how to do it.
PrestaShop sends various data to your email – orders, contact form messages, notifications, etc. You only enter the email once during PrestaShop installation, but if you need to change it later, there are several places you may need to check.
Here are the most common situations:
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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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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.
Back Office language can be set separately for every employee. And for changing it you need to go to the employee’s settings.
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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).
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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
