Prestashop recently released “Prestashop 1.4.2.5“. We are glad that it is improving rapidly. Thank you Prestashop!

But be careful if you want to upgrade your system. We “Googled” about this new version and found “upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2.5, stop at the first page” problem in Prestashop forum. It seems that this upgrade problem is not resolved at the moment.

One more problem solved today. PHP files were uploaded to our FTP server but we got a bunch of errors. That was strange because code worked correctly in local host. We figured out that our server deleted all “ End of Line” symbols – all code was placed in one line.

Web traffic analytics is extremely important for e-commerce websites. Google Analytics is the most popular and most powerful free web analytics solution at the moment. Every e-commerce website should  install it as soon as possible.

It took me some tome to figure it out how to change admin panel (back office) language. This post may save somebody’s time with this problem.

Developers or system administrators update their templates constantly. Sometimes you need to install additional module, delete or add some elements in your Prestashop templates. You can turn on Force compile option in Preferencies->Performance area and templates are regenerated on every browser request. This option really slows down your shop. There is a possibility to avoid regeneration of every template. Tell Smarty template engine to regenerate only changed templates not all of them. This is how you can accomplish this:

Friendly URLs are critical to SEO (search engine optimization) and this functionality should be enabled in Prestashop as soon as possible. Prestashop changes URLs like www.yourshop.com/product.php?id_product=1 to www.yourshop.com/music-ipods/1-ipod-nano.html if friendly URL is enabled. The second URL gives much more information to search engines.

I found one more bug in Prestashop’s DIBS payment module v.1.0 – current version at the moment. This module is integrated in Prestashop 1.4 but it is not integrated in Prestashop 1.4.1 so you have to install it manually. You can download it from here. This payment module can be configured in “Modules->Payments & Gateways->DIBS” back office area.

Today our customer contacted us about the problem with Internet explorer. The website was not displayed correctly only in IE. IE used styles from the wrong CSS file. We  checked it with IE “Developer tools” (press F12 on your keyboard if you want to open it). The first thought was to check the website’s source code and find CSS hacks like:

This problem may happen with other modules also so I decided to write a post about it and how to resolve it. So DIPS payment method is not displayed if “Minify HTML after “smarty compile” execution.” is turned on.

Today I was surprised . Prestashop wrote about our “Survey & Poll builder” module in their newsletter. You can check the newsletter here. Our module can be found here.

This is what Prestashop writes:
“Survey and Poll Builder is a powerful tool to create, edit, and manage polls and surveys on your PrestaShop-based site. Poll your customers and learn their opinions about different subjects that interest you! Take advantage of this module to find out what your clients think about your store, your products, or any other element that could be useful to increasing your sales online.

This module is easy to configure and has an intuitive interface, allowing you to create surveys and polls by simply clicking and dragging. You can display these surveys on your store’s home page or on any other page to target your surveys.”

We are glad our module was noticed. Thank you Prestashop!