How to remove Request add store button and category select box?

To hide the category, edit index.php and embed.php

change the following from:

<div class="form-item" id="edit-products-wrapper">

to:

<div class="form-item" id="edit-products-wrapper" style="visibility:hidden">

To remove the request add store button, find and remove this code in index.php and embed.php

<input type="button" name="op" onclick="document.location.href='embed_newstore.php'" id="edit-submit" value="<?php echo $lang['REQUEST_ADD_STORE']; ?>" class="btn btn-primary" style="color:white !important;"/>
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