Articles about News

  • Introducing TypeScript

    Moving our Javascript code to the next level

    Following a recent Architecture Decision Records (ADR) submission and a Proof of Concept (POC), the Core Maintainers team has decided to introduce TypeScript (TS) on the project.

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  • Heads up: old development branches are going away

    We are cleaning up old branches from our repository

    The month of June is fast approaching, so it’s time for a late Spring clean!

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  • PrestaShop is now available on Composer

    A new way to kickstart your projects

    Released almost 10 years ago, Composer is the most popular package manager for the PHP ecosystem. PrestaShop has been using it since 1.7.0 to manage its dependencies, including all the native modules.

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  • Focusing on essential modules

    Announcing end of official support for less popular modules

    Over the years, the PrestaShop project became host and maintainer for a very large number of open source modules. Last year, over 160 of them were present in our GitHub organization. As you probably know already, maintaining them requires a lot of work, and the maintainer team’s resources are limited. Proof of this is that some of these modules have not been updated in years.

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  • A new place to contribute to the PrestaShop project and share your feedback on the next features

    Discover PrestaShop's new tool to collect feedback and better prioritize what to build next!

    As announced here, the Core product team recently adopted a new working tool to gather feedback and prioritize features: Productboard. No more teasing, it is now time to have a look at how it will look and how we will all be able to handle it!

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  • UX Guidelines for modules developers

    Download the best practices in PDF to create consistent interfaces in the Back Office of PrestaShop

    With more than 4000 modules available on PrestaShop Addons marketplace, the diversity of features developed by modules developers or by the PrestaShop team is growing faster every day, making PrestaShop one of the most adaptive and versatile e-commerce solution.

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  • Fighting against spamming - again!

    Don't play spam invaders

    Remember the movie scene from Terminator when Arnold Swcharzenegger says “I’ll be back”? Well, this is pretty close to what spammers said last year after we prevented them from spamming our merchants’ contact forms (see article here).

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  • Fighting against spamming

    Don't play spam invaders

    Remember some Rocky fight scenes where Sylvester Stallone is beating the living daylights out of his opponents? Well, this is pretty close to the situation we are experiencing now, fighting against spammers.

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  • (Almost) A Year of Build

    Indulge us while we bathe in our yearly self-celebratory post

    The Build devblog was started in March 2015 (and officially launched on April 3rd), as a way for the devteam to let the PrestaShop Community know about the things that we were planning. We wanted to communicate directly with the technical minds in the Community, and out of this want, this blog was born!

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  • PrestaShop Official Icon Pack - Beta

    We're cooking some fresh icons for you!

    As part of PrestaShop’s product redesign, we decided to replace Font Awesome and start using our own icon pack. We’re sharing here the very first version of this new icon set, and we’ll keep you updated when it evolves.

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