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title: "How to Delete Products in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5"
description: "Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our last article,..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/delete-products-in-virtuemart/
date: 2012-04-18
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5", "VirtueMart"]
tags: ["Joomla v2.5"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to Delete Products in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life [here](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_CMS_versions).

In our last article, we showed you [how to delete product categories](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/delete-virtuemart-category/) in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5. We are doing this because we are **removing the test products and product categories** that were included with the VirtureMart sample data. As you can see in the screenshot below, even though we deleting their categories, we still have a few sample products showing up. In this VirtueMart tutorial, we will show you how to delete products.

[![products-we-dont-want-are-showing](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_products-we-dont-want-are-showing-1024x644.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_products-we-dont-want-are-showing.gif)

**How to delete products in VirtueMart:**

1. [Log into your Joomla Dashboard](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. In the top menu, hover over **Components** and then click **VirtueMart**
3. Click the **Products** icon[![click-the-products-icon-in-virtuemart](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_click-the-products-icon-in-virtuemart.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_click-the-products-icon-in-virtuemart.gif)
4. Place a check in the box next to each product that you want to delete. Then click **Delete** in the top right menu.[![check-and-delete-products](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_check-and-delete-products.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_check-and-delete-products.gif) Please note that when deleting products that have children, you first have to delete the children products first and then delete the parent products. If you try to delete a parent product first, you will receive an error message similar to: **vmError: Attention product is parent, please delete the children first****Product could not be deleted.** After deleting products, you will see a message similar to:**Product successfully deleted.**
5. When you visit your store again, you will no longer see any of the deleted products shown![![no-old-products-are-now-showing](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_no-old-products-are-now-showing.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/edu_joomla25_delete-products-in-virtuemart_no-old-products-are-now-showing.gif)