PrestaShop Tips - How to remove "Powered By PrestaShop" from your store pages

I guess most store owner would like to remove the "Powered By PrestaShop" when your site is launched for production. Here are some of the tip on how how to do that.

Are you allowed to remove the "Powered By PrestaShop"?

The answer is Yes. PrestaShop is under OSL 3.0 license.
You can find more details here : http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php

1. How to remove "Powered By PrestaShop" from front page footer?

You will have to modify one the theme file (tpl) files, look for "Powered By" and remove related HTML tags and the text.

For PrestaShop 1.3x or lower:
YourSiteRoot/themes/YourSiteRoot/footer.tpl

For PrestaShop 1.4x ot higher
YourSiteRoot/modules/blockcms/blockcms.tpl

if you have customized version of block CMS, then you need to modify following file
YourSiteRoot/themes/modules/blockcms/blockcms.tpl

For 1.4x, you can also remove this from CMS block module in back office.
Back office - Modules - search CMS block - configure - see below footer section:

How to remove "PrestaShop™" from your back office page?

You will need to remove it from following file




/YourSiteRoot/YourSiteAdmin/footer.inc.php

YourSiteAdmin is the admin folder of your site that you are required to change name for security reason.

How to remove "Powered By PrestaShop" from email templates?

PrestaShop will different kind of emails based on your condfiguration.
All default emmail template include "Powered By PrestaShop". You would like to remove "Powered By PrestaShop" in those emails templates.



Option 1: modify the physical file in following folders

YourSiteRoot/mails/

Please note:
The email templates are organized into different language folders like en, es, fr.
Each email has both HTML and TEXT version.

Option 2: modify the templates though the back office tools

back office - Tools tab - Translations sub tab - choose Email translations

4. Remove " "Powered By PrestaShop"" in other places

If you are using some modules that uses emails, such as mail alerts module, you will also want to remove "Powered By PrestaShop" from those emails too.

The email templates are located in different modules folders.
For example, mailalerts module email templates is under this folder

/YourSiteRoot/modules/mailalerts/mails/

I think above should covered most places, if I missed any, please let me know I will add them on.