E-commerce tutorials & guides

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.

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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