Packaging the new theme
Packaging your own unique theme for PrestaShop can involve slightly more than just letting your new theme be installed and run automatically, the same way as you created it.
When you want to package your theme, consider having a step-by-step readme file for anyone wanting to use your theme.
If you have made the theme on your local computer, you will need to zip
the file and upload it to the PrestaShop site you want to use it on.
When your theme is ready, you must place a file representing the theme called preview.jpg
in the theme's root folder (for example, ../themes/mytheme
). This file must be a 100x100 pixels .jpg
file. More detail on this is discussed in Chapter 8, Deploying Your New Themes.
In the previous version of PrestaShop v1.2.5.0, it was possible to change the name and description in themes/mytheme/config/conf.xml
. However, the config
folder was deleted in PrestaShop v1.3.
It is not possible to define the theme name, version, author, and description in PrestaShop...