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Deactivating your shop means making sure that no one can access it while you are busy making changes, creating products, settings prices and taxes, installing payment modules and a new theme, setting carriers... This is called "putting your shop in maintenance mode".
In your back - office, go the "Preferences / Maintenance" page. This page features two simple settings:
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This would mean browsing through the many various screens of the back - office and deleting content one page after the other, but there is much easier way:
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You should pay attention to the following settings, most of which are important because they are displayed on the front - office, and therefore in plain sight of your customers.
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PrestaShop is able to work with many languages, both on the front - office and the back - office. As soon as more than one language is enabled in your back - office, each back - office text-field is accompanied with a language code selector, which indicates the current language, and which you can click in order to choose another language in which to write that field's content.
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PrestaShop comes bundled with more than a hundred modules. These are very varied: analytics, front - office features, payment, shipping... You should explore the available modules in full, in order to know which ones you might want to enable, and which you'd rather keep disabled.
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