Time for action – installing a PrestaShop theme

Here’s how to do it:

1. Download the template to your PC.

2. Hold down the Windows key and tap the E key twice. In one window, browse to your downloaded theme. In the other window, log in to your website via FTP.

3. On your website, browse to the themes folder.

4. Drag the new themes folder onto your website.

5. Now log in to your PrestaShop admin panel.

6. Click on the Preferences tab, and then on Appearance. Scroll to the bottom of the page, select your new template, and click on Save. How quick was that?

What just happened?

You can now switch themes at will. After this quick pop quiz, we will look at making your theme completely unique.

Pop quiz – themes and things

So how do you customize the theme? Maybe you like the general layout but want to change some elements?

Q1. How do you think you can change the elements of the actual template itself? (Here’s a clue: it’s not in your control panel.)

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