AwImageTools Module to manage images in PrestaShop

Why do I need this module?

When you have a wide catalog on PrestaShop, managing and keeping up-to-date your store images can be a complicated task, not to say they can occupy a lot of your server resources and force you to hire a more powerful one every time. To facilitate image management and removal, thus reducing the use of your resources, from AlabazWeb Pro we developed the module AwImageTools.

Thanks to this module:

Your customers You can access your store more quickly as your server resources will be perfectly optimized and the loading time will be significantly reduced.

You. you can import, save and remove the images of your products and the different manufacturers in a single step, quickly and easily. This way you will effectively manage your server's resources without having to hire another more powerful to store the entire image load.

All the features of the module:

Imports product and manufacturer images

How much you have infinity of products that are changing very often, keeping up-to-date images can be a task that takes a long time. Also if you work with different manufacturers this task can be even more complicated. However, with AwImageTools You can make this work very simple.

You just have to access. Import and select, first, if you will import images from manufacturers or products.

Then just upload the image files to manufacturers or products,following the following format:

• Manufacturers:

Name;Image

• Products:

Name;Reference;"Images(url1;url2)"

This way you can import all the images you don't have added to your store one time from a file csv.

Removes images by type

And if keeping the images updated in a great task, eliminating those you no longer need is even more important. If you're not eliminating images they get upset because the product has been exhausted, disabled, etc. estaran occupying a valuable space on your server, which will force you to hire more and more resources to save information that doesn't really serve you at all.

With this module you can choose the different image types and select type/type you want to eliminate.

This is especially useful to eliminate type thickbox_default which occupy a large space on your server (from 400 MB, depending on the quantity of products, up to 4GB on websites with 20,000 products) and only shows when the customer zooms on the image of the product. For this case, you can use the original image that is also large, so you will be releasing large disk space without harming your store by removing this kind of images.

Save space on your server

If your store is filled with images you don't need, with images of exhausted products, temporary images... and you'd like to get rid of them without having to go looking for one in all folders, then you need to AwImageTools. With this module you only have to access the tab Clean Images and you can select if you want to clean all those photos that should not be there in the folders products, categories, manufacturers and in the file folder temporary.

When you have selected the type of images you want to delete, you have to click the button See Images Delete. Then the module looks for images corresponding to products that are not assigned to the database, duplicate images or that should not be in that folder, etc.

With AwImageTools you can also remove regenerated images of products even if disabled and remove even the original image

As for the folder temporary files, you must note that when creating an image a temporary copy is generated that is stored in a folder for this type of file. When the image is assigned to its corresponding folder, the temporary image remains there until you delete it, thus occupying a very valuable space.

This module is particularly useful if you work with dropshipping, as the catalogues of this type of store are very wide and changing. Therefore, having a module to help you remove all those images of depleted and decayed products and manage the images of the new articles, is indispensable. This way you will be able to free large space from your server, making your shop more effective.

Reduce the weight of your images and improve SEO

AwImageTools connects your shop with reSmush.it which will reduce the size of allyour images: manufacturers, products, categories, templates and modules,without losing quality and automatically. You will only have to send them to this platform from the module and return the % you have reduced:

In addition, you can activate the option of sending the photos to reSmush.it every time they regenerate and you won't have to worry about it again.

Your website will be faster and Google will see it with very good eyes, improving SEO positioning.

Filter of products without images or with wrong images

If you have hundreds or even thousands of products, finding those who have no image or have very small images can be a challenge. But with AwimagesTool will be a very simple task. Enough you agree to tools and choose the filter you want to use: products without images or with bad quality images:

• Products without images: The module will return a list of items that lack product image. By clicking on them you will be redirected to the editing page:

• Products with wrong images: With this module you can filter the images according to the percentage of white that they contain. When an image has a large percentage of whites it indicates that it has been filled to occupy the space of the image and therefore does not have the quality to be seen on the web.
  
  

Improve the performance of your website and its position in search engines with AwImageTools