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PrestaShop migration & upgrade

PrestaShop migration & upgrade

Move from PrestaShop 1.6 or 1.7 to 8 or 9 without losing data, SEO or sleep. Planned, staged and reversible, handled by the developer who’ll keep running it afterwards.

Work with me
ScopeWhat’s included
Pre-migration audit
Inventory of modules, overrides, theme and data, and an honest map of what survives the jump.
Staged rebuild
The target version built and tested on staging, so the live shop is never the experiment.
Data migration
Products, customers, orders and SEO data migrated and validated, not just dumped across.
SEO preserved
301 redirects, URL mapping and structured data kept intact so you don’t lose rankings.
Infrastructure move
New PHP/MySQL versions and server config handled together with the code: one coherent plan.
Reversible cutover
A switch-over with a rollback path, scheduled to minimize downtime.

Upgrading PrestaShop is where shops break: data that doesn’t map, modules that don’t exist anymore, URLs that change and tank your SEO, a theme that won’t come along. Done in a hurry on the live site, it’s a disaster waiting to happen.

I treat a migration as a project, not a button. We map what you have, build the new version on staging, migrate and validate data, preserve URLs and rankings, and switch over only when it’s proven. And because I run servers too, the infrastructure move is part of the plan, not an afterthought.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Will I lose my SEO rankings?

Not if it’s done properly. URL preservation and 301 redirects are part of the plan from day one: protecting rankings is exactly why migrations need a developer, not a one-click tool.

Can you migrate a heavily customized shop?

Yes. Customization is the normal case, not the exception. The audit identifies what to port, what to rebuild cleaner, and what to drop.

How much downtime?

Minimal and planned. The new version is fully built and validated on staging first; the live cutover is a short, scheduled, reversible step.

Proof

Related work

MigrationPrestaShop 9 migration, from €900Staging copy, data and SEO preserved, honest word on what the theme needs. DevelopmentNeed a feature that doesn’t exist yet?I build custom PrestaShop themes and modules, from 1.6 to 9: clean code that survives future updates. PerformanceSlow shop?I make it fast, measured before and after: queries, caching, server. Big catalogues are a specialty.
Further reading

To go deeper

Article404 on product pages after moving to PrestaShop 9Why old product URLs with the category return 404, what changed in the code and how to restore or redirect them. Guide301 redirects and 404s after a migration: what to checkWhat PrestaShop 9.1 does by itself, how to map old URLs and what to look at in Search Console. ArticleWhat breaks the week after you migrate to PrestaShopURLs nobody remapped, the cookie banner, lost compliance data: the problems that show up after launch day. ArticleMigrating from PrestaShop to Shopify: when it pays offWhen changing platform makes sense, what really gets transferred, the SEO risks and how we work.
Contact

Tell me what’s not working, or not talking to what.

New build, a system that needs rescuing, an integration, EU compliance (withdrawal button, GPSR, accessibility). One developer who builds it and stays to run it. I reply within one business day.

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luca@cavallini.net

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