Prestashop and Media Servers
If you went through the optimizing Prestashop articles your site should be pretty quick now, but if you want to squeeze even more out of it you can configure the media servers to serve you static...
View Article4 Tips for a Faster Prestashop
Is your shop slow? Have you noticed high page load times? With e-commerce sites speed is one of the top priorities, it is a major factor in people bouncing from your site. If someone bounces, you lose...
View ArticlePrestashop Olark Module
If you read the article on 8 things that you can do to increase your sales, you saw that I recommend having a live chat on your site. You also saw that Olark is the live chat that I recommend. The set...
View ArticleInstalling Prestashop Locally
So you have seen Prestashop and you want to try it out, but maybe you do not want to pay for web hosting to test it out with. No problem, I will show you how to install Prestashop locally so that you...
View ArticleGoogle Paid vs Organic Search
Here is an interesting infographic from our friends at Wordstream showing the direction that Google searches are going to. Who would have thought paid searches are the way of the future. by Lesley...
View ArticleCart Abandonment
Are you having abandonment issues? You have people coming to your site, they are putting things in their carts, but they are not sealing the deal. I can help you mitigate the problem, but it will take...
View ArticleTarget specific languages with Prestashop attachments
Attachments Attachments are a great way to provide your customers with rich pre-sale information about your products. But what if your site is multilingual? Let’s see how to make Prestashop Attachments...
View ArticlePrestashop Advanced Open Graph Tags
In a past article I have shown you how to set up the Open Graph Protocol tags for Prestashop. But lets take it one step further. Instead of using your logo for posts, lets use our product images. If...
View ArticleSpeed Prestashop up with php.ini
I kind of lied in the title, doing this will actually speed all php programs up. This is a dead simple trick and if you host lets you take advantage of using a php.ini you can greatly increase the...
View ArticlePrestashop Tracking in Customer Account
The other day while working on one of my clients shops, I noticed something. In Prestashop, when you send a tracking number after a purchase, nothing is posted in the account of the user. At first I...
View Article$100 Prestashop Addons Store Give Away
I am proud to announce in conjunction with Prestashop we are going to offer a $100 gift certificate to the official Prestashop Addons Store. Use the entry form below to enter and good luck! a...
View Article4 Tips for a Faster Prestashop
Is your shop slow? Have you noticed high page load times? With e-commerce sites speed is one of the top priorities, it is a major factor in people bouncing from your site. If someone bounces, you lose...
View ArticlePrestashop Olark Module
If you read the article on 8 things that you can do to increase your sales, you saw that I recommend having a live chat on your site. You also saw that Olark is the live chat that I recommend. The set...
View ArticleInstalling Prestashop Locally
So you have seen Prestashop and you want to try it out, but maybe you do not want to pay for web hosting to test it out with. No problem, I will show you how to install Prestashop locally so that you...
View ArticlePrestashop Error Reporting
Sometimes when you are working with Prestashop things just go wrong. The best way to figure out what is wrong is to turn on error reporting in Prestashop. Error reporting will print out errors that...
View ArticleMinimum Limits Based on Customer Groups
A couple of weeks ago I had a client with an unusual request. Their shop sells both retail and wholesale, but in their wholesale agreement there are two stipulations. When a new wholesale account is...
View ArticleUsing APC to Speed up Prestashop
Using APC you can greatly speed up Prestashop. If you are familiar with APC, it stands for Alternative PHP Cache. What it does is kind of complicated to explain. On a basic level, it caches the...
View ArticlePrestashop Importing Product CSV Files
Importing CSV files into Prestashop can be very power and an amazing time saver, but some times it is tricky. Most of the problems with importing CSV files can either be traced to either incorrectly...
View ArticlePrestashop Meta Titles
Someone approached me the other day with an interesting question. They wanted to remove their shop name from the meta titles that Prestashop creates. This was a request that I haven’t heard yet and...
View ArticlePrestashop sort by date
It seems more and more lately I am running into unusual request with Prestashop. Earlier this week one of my clients contacted me and wanted to add the option to their category pages to sort by date....
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