#prestashop – Wayne Out There

Fixing PrestaShop child theme upload fail

Just a quick post. To be totally honest, I haven’t had time to investigate if this is a filed bug or not, but I’m going to post this here to save others some headaches and also hopefully serve as a reference link for someone else if they want to file the bug officially (sorry, my bad).

I tried to upload a child theme in the prestashop theme section but kept getting this message in the ‘upload child theme’ feature:

Oops… Upload failed.
What happened?
Try again

However, when I clicked the ‘what happened’ link it only told me that the file wasn’t valid (in this case I was uploading a .zip which it instructed me to do) so the file was valid.

To make a long story short, what I had to do to get it working was this in the Theme & Logo / Advanced Customization area:

Switch back from my already-uploaded first-attempt child theme to the original parent theme
Delete my first child theme upload attempt with same name
Upload the new Child theme

If I’m correct in my assumption that the ‘technical name’ of my first uploaded theme is conflicting with the new upload attempt, this should be clearly laid out in the upload area and a few other areas so that the user knows ‘ah! i should delete any conflicting child themes first!”

Again, I haven’t tested this more than twice but hopefully this helps the devs and some users

How to Import Shopify Data into Prestashop with CSV

Brutal. I spent probably 3 hours trying to figure this out so I thought I should spend about 10 minutes and write this quick blog post for anyone else who might hit this.

I was testing out Prestashop (looking good so far!) and the aim was to move a new shopify account over to Prestashop to see how it goes.

First thing I did was had the Shopify product data exported as .csv file.

Next I followed the instructions on the documentation page for importing into Prestshop. Unfortunately, though, there seemed to be no detailed instructions about how to set up data. I think this is because there are a lot of migration companies that make some cash doing this so fair enough.

Anyways, what I did was opened up both Shopify .csv and Prestashop demo .csv for products and noticed that they both have different data separator formats.

Shopify uses commas whereas Prestashop uses semi colon.

So, all I had to do was manually type in a comma into the field that says ‘Field Separator’ in the Prestashop import module and everything started working and I could start mapping the fields and database tables as expected and as explained in documentation.

Hope this tiny, one second tip helps you save 3 hours and some cash.