Disabling products within PrestaShop 1.6

During the lifetime of your shop, you will have products come and go. Some will be discontinued, some will be test market products, some will be seasonal. There are many reasons why you may want to disable a product, however there are very few occasions you should want to actually delete a product. In this Read More >

Adding new product features in PrestaShop 1.6

What is a product feature? When working with products, you will discover there are many common features your products have. For example you may have a ‘Composition‘ feature. This is what the product is made out of and can be many different materials. If you sell clothing this may be cotton, denim or polyester. Perhaps Read More >

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 Released

Today, the first beta of WordPress 3.9 was released with plenty of tweaks and new features. While not quite as noticable as 3.8, there are numerous changes for both developers as well as end-users. We encourage you to deploy a development site to play around with it, especially if you use or develop a plugin Read More >

Working with product features in PrestaShop 1.6

When working with your products in your PrestaShop 1.6 store, there is a lot of information that can be entered to describe your products. These are broken down into tabs on the left hand side of the main product page. One of these tabs, the Features tab, is where you will enter the different important Read More >

Product Descriptions in PrestaShop 1.6

When adding a product in PrestaShop 1.6, there are fields available to type in a Short description and a Description (long description). Question: How do you know what to type into the short description and what to type in the long description? Answer: Knowing where short descriptions and long descriptions are used within your store Read More >

Changing your WordPress database collation

If characters are not being stored properly on your WordPress site, or if you are using a different language in which the characters that you entered are not the same as what is being displayed, you may need to change your database collation. For example, if you database uses character set that is not utf8_general_ci, Read More >

Changing Your Database Port in WordPress

If your database is located on a different port, you will need to adjust your connection settings within WordPress to connect to it. In this article, we will show you about changing your database port within your WordPress configuration. Changing Your WordPress Database Port First, log into cPanel and open the file manager. If you Read More >

Improve PrestaShop 1.6 Performance

The following article covers the optimization options present within PrestaShop 1.6. These options will help make your PrestaShop installation load and perform faster. We will describe the performance and caching options available within the newly re-designed PrestaShop 1.6 interface. Smarty Configuration Smarty is the php template engine used by PrestaShop. You will want to make Read More >

Managing product quantities in PrestaShop 1.6

Proper stock management is needed when running a store, whether it is online or a brick and mortar building. PrestaShop offers easy management of your product’s available stock via the Quantities tab. Below is a quick tutorial on the tab and how ot works with your products. How to manage product quantities in PrestaShop 1.6 Read More >

Adding images for products in PrestaShop 1.6

One of the more important selling points for your products is the image. With a proper image, more customers will buy your items. Products without images typically do not sell as well. In this article, we will show how to add images to your products in PrestaShop 1.6 How to add product images in PrestaShop Read More >

How to Send Android push notifications in AppPresser

In this tutorial: Downloading AppPush Google API key Configuring Pushwoosh Configuring AppPush Rebuilding your app Sending push notifications AppPresser has released push notifications for their excellent WordPress mobile app platform using the AppPush extension. With this release, AppPresser is further solidifying itself as an authority in native Android and iPhone application development. In this article, Read More >

Adding Shipping Details to Products in PrestaShop

Your product has been created, priced, and assigned to a category. Now it is ready to be bought by your customers. Once bought, it can then be shipped. This article covers how to add specific shipping details to an individual product. These include package size and any additional shipping charges that need to be added Read More >

Assigning your products to categories in PrestaShop 1.6

Once you have created and priced your product, you will want to add it to a category so that it is easily found in your store. You can associate products with more than one category. You will also want to assign them to as many relevant categories as possible. This tutorial walks you through the Read More >

Working with the product SEO tab in PrestaShop 1.6

When creating your product in PrestaShop, you want to ensure the product page itself can be found by the search engines. This tutorial goes over the SEO tab and how to use it to help your customers find your products. Working with the SEO tab in PrestaShop 1.6 Log into the PrestaShop admin dashboard. Once Read More >

Setting Pricing for Your Products in PrestaShop 1.6

After you have created your product, you will need to add a few more details before it is ready to sell. One of the more important details is price. Pricing is more than a just a random assigned number. There are several settings involved as well as special pricing you may want to consider for Read More >

How to Add a Product to your PrestaShop 1.6 Store

So you have already installed your PrestaShop 1.6 store and you are ready to go. You will need to know how to add products to your store so you can sell them to your visitors and make money. There are many different aspects to products, but this article will focus on the basics of adding Read More >

Disabling HTML comments in WordPress

Almost all comment spam left on your WordPress site will have some sort of HTML embedded within it such as links. In this article, we will show you how to disable HTML within comments on your WordPress site so that links can no longer be embedded. First, log into your WordPress admin dashboard Now that Read More >

Protect your Joomla 3 admin dashboard from Brute Force logins

The Admin Tools Joomla component can be used to protect your Joomla website against brute force attacks. In a snutshell, a brute force attack is when hackers repeatedly guess your Joomla password over and over again until they get it right and login to your dashboard. Enabling the password-protect administrator feature within Admin Tools adds Read More >