Prestashop 1.6 and our upgrade plan

Prestashop 1.6 has been released for almost 2 months with a lot of new features and improvements. In this blog post, we would like to show you why you should upgrade to Prestashop 1.6, introduce Leo Framework - the best responsive pretashop theme framework and our themes, extension upgrade plan. So let's get started.

Prestashop 1.6 - a new height for ecommerce

Prestashop 1.6 brings you totally new dashboard, back office that is more friendly, easy to use and rich-featured and the front office with new responsive default theme, redesigned homepage, etc.

1. Back office

The new back-office is sleek and intelligent, making it simple for online merchants to know absolutely everything about their online shop

• Redesigned back-end panel - more user friendly, easy to navigate and smarter.
• Fully responsive back-end panel - The 1.6 back-office is fully responsive and accessible from any mobile device and tablet
• New Dashboard - Managing your inventory and sales will be better than ever with advanced data technology coupled with a brilliant design.
• Intelligent KPI’s throughout Back Office - This new version of PrestaShop makes sure that you understand every aspect of your online shop no matter where you are in your back-office. With valuable information located throughout select pages, you’ll know KPI’s such as your best selling product of the month, your percentage of abandoned carts, the average age of your customers, etc

2. Front-end

• A Refreshing New Responsive Default Theme - The enhanced new default theme is sleek and responsive making PrestaShop stores accessible on all screen sizes including mobile devices and tablets! This new version also includes Live Template edits directly from the Front Office
• Redesigned Home Page - with attractive banners, reassuring footer, rich menu, improved shopping cart, etc
• Product Categories - customers can now decide if they would like to view your products in list or grid form
• Product pages - changes to the product pages to optimize the layout of product information. Each element of a product page has been well thought out to increase your conversion rate

Introduce Leo Framework - the best responsive Prestashop theme framework

Since the first release in 2012, Leo Framework got very good feedback from Prestashop gurus because of its simplicity yet flexibility. We worked hard to upgrade the framework to version 3.0 with a lot of new features, improvement and Prestashop 1.6 compatibility. Let’s see why it’s your best choice:

• Fully responsive framework
• Native with Prestashop 1.6
• Upgraded to Bootstrap 3
• Powerful menu system with Megamenu
• Visual layout configuration
• Real time theme customization
• Developed with SASS
• Support HTML5, CSS3

Our upgrade plan:

We know that you’re very excited with the new version of prestashop, we did got many requests from users and we agree that it’s important upgrade so we will try our best to upgrade all extensions to be compatible with Prestashop 1.6. Let’s check our upgrade process in the table below and You can check the list of theme update onto Prestashop version 1.6.0.11 at HERE!

1: Presatshop Framework and Extensions

2. Prestashop Theme