We at PrestaShop know that the logistics of packaging and shipping products globally can be daunting. That’s why the entire PrestaShop team is extremely pleased to add Shipwire to our growing list of industry partners. Read more
May
16
2012
If someone said your e-commerce store could function faster and more efficiently with just one simple download, you’d probably be ecstatic. Well, let the hoorah begin because with CloudCache technology, your PrestaShop store can instantly capitalize on all the benefits of an unbound Content Delivery Network (CDN). Read more
May
11
2012
Internet users love to communicate and share information freely on subject they adore. Brands quickly took note, and many of them encourage these exchanges. Sharing is thus the key element to build a community: you want to establish a dialogue with your community members and aim to get your members to start dialogues between themselves.
May
10
2012
Today, we are pleased to celebrate PrestaShop’s 5th birthday! It has been a long time since we first opened our doors on May 10, 2007. Just five years later, more than 120,000 active stores worldwide are selling online using our solution!
With the help of our Community, we have come a long way since Bruno Lévêque and Igor Schlumberger decided to offer a new Open-source e-commerce solution to the world.
Check out below for some fun information about where this journey has taken us over the last five years.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us make PrestaShop the world’s fastest growing e-commerce solution!
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May
09
2012
This article is the first one in a series titled “Be the Best-in-Class in your Industry”.
Today, your customers are one second away from leaving your online store. Top retailers like Amazon remind us how competitive and cut-throat the e-commerce market is.
A very interesting and powerful story regarding the competitive nature of it, is that Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com CEO & Founder) used to meet every morning with his IT team to compare the loading speeds of their top competitors to make sure that they were at least two times as fast as the #2 competitor. Read more
May
04
2012
Luxury is beginning little by little to take over the net. While this sector may not be hit by the financial crisis, it’s nonetheless behind in terms of e-commerce. The largest luxury brands often use the internet as a medium of communicating their image, but not necessarily as a potential source of revenue. According to a study by Forrester & Walpole, only one out of three luxury brands have an online store.
May
04
2012
Hi everyone,
We are experiencing a technical problem with PHP run in GCI mode.
All websites using PHP are affected, and it’s possible your shop may be impacted.
Whether PHP is running on your e-commerce website or not, we highly recommend you apply the following patch for security reasons.
To implement this fix, please do the following:
- At the root of your shop, find a file named .Htaccess
- Open the file and edit its content by simply adding this code at the bottom of the file::
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(%2d|-)[^=]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1? [L]
When completed, save the file and your store will instantly be protected.
If you would like to verify that the patch worked correctly, go to the home page of your website and add “?-s” to the end of your URL. For example, http://www.myshop.com/?-s
If your homepage looks normal, then rest assure that your website is no longer affected by this problem.
If you require additional information, you can access it via the official report.
If you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact us at security@prestashop.com
Apr
27
2012
Any store today knows it needs to use social networks to promote its products and brands and communicate with its target clients, especially through Facebook and Twitter. Now a new social network is starting to create a buzz in the web world: Pinterest. Already the third most used social network in the world, this new American phenomenon is beginning gradually to spread to Europe, especially in Anglo-Saxon and Francophone countries.
In this report, we will decipher this new phenomenon and understand how online retailers can benefit from it!