the way of Prestashop

[xmurph]

Now, with version 1.5 in beta, want you make a point of the situation?

 

Prestashop is a complete suite for ecommerce but from many time suffers of 3 big problems:

 

1 SEO compliant and url rewriting scandalous. In the Wordpress era, Prestashop should take inspiration from the way they had implemented the SEO. easy, fast.

 

2 performances: Prestashop is really slow. this is not a news, and it is not from now. caching system is a must but it does not help enought. the code is really heavy and if you do not have a dedicated server you are in big troubles with Prestashop. this is the true.

 

3 template system: to modify a template there's not a file, but there are a lot of files to change. someone also has requested to change this system, nobody want to do it.

 

ok this is prestashop now, compare it with Opencart for example, but if you're not satisfied, compare it with WP e-commerce plugin. yes it is still young and has not much extensions, but it is Wordpress, it is fast, it is seo ready, it is easy to modify.

 

Can Prestashop be completely rewrited on new basis? tinme is escaping now.

[Dev On Web]

Some of your statements are false ...

[strapper]

1) you don't know a bit about the possibilities of custom url rewriting inside prestashop,

or else you won't have written that bit;

 

2) yeah, it's pretty slow on several free hosting services but even on free.fr, ovh and other shared hosting services (and even 1&1, that infamous one ) it's working fine;

 

3) in wordpress too, each file has its reason to be there. and even in most wordpress templates the template file for the "404 error" page isn't there... which is a terrible mistake !

[Dev On Web]

Wordpress is slower than Prestashop, I use two for professionals websites and it's visible !

Compare two sites with the same traffic and the ressources of each system when you install multiples modules in WP, it's hard !