Before installing a clean copy of Magento 1.4.1.1 I had installed the sample data available from Magento. When it came to adding my own real data I noticed there were 3 stores set up: English, French and German. I only required the English store so needed to remove the other two.
Removing these extra stores is very simple, although it helps if you know where to look.
- Log in to the Magento admin panel.
- Go to System > Manage Stores.
- In here you will see all the stores that are currently set up. You will see 3 orange buttons on the top right which allow you to create stores but no mention of removing/deleting.
- To remove the store click on the ‘Store View Name’ in the 3rd column. ‘Main Website’ and ‘Main Store’ do not have a delete option.
- Now you are on the selected Store View screen you will see a delete button has appeared top right. When you hit this it will ask if you want to take a Database backup. As I was only removing stores from the sample data I had no need. I would recommend this if you are removing stores you might later need to recover data from. Once you select this option hit the large delete button underneath. This store view is now removed from Magento.