Chapter 8. Deploying Your New Themes

You have seen that creating themes in PrestaShop is much easier than most other e-commerce shopping cart sites. This is largely due to the use of the Smarty template system, which allows theme modification without requiring modification of any of the PHP files.

You are only required to modify the relevant tpl files and most of the time deal with the global.css of the theme to edit the CSS.

In this final chapter, we will go through the process of using the theme you have created and deploy it on another site. This is similar to the situation where you work within a development site and need to move or copy the theme that you have made to another site, normally a production site.

You will also go through the process of validating your themes. Although we covered this in one of the previous chapters, we will elaborate further on this aspect and underscore the importance on the web accessibility.

In order to use the new theme in another site, you will need...