PrestaShop in version 1.5 displays in back office "Must Have" modules. This is kind of advertisement of paid modules from official addons store. I've noticed several times that merchants wants to remove these unwanted advertisement. It's very easy to achieve and you can do it only with simple modification of back office template file.

Must Have prestashop modules - how to remove advertisement from back office modules list?

Back office template file modification

As i said in short introduction above - all that we have to edit is simple back office theme template file. Please open this theme file: /ADMIN_DIR/themes/default/template/controllers/modules/list.tpl - ADMIN_DIR is a directory of your prestashop back office manager. This file is template for modules list (modules > modules tab in your back office).

You can find there foreach loop: 

{foreach from=$modules item=module}

right after this code, add simple if condition:

{if $module->type != 'addonsMustHave'}  

You need to add also closing if condition tag: {/if} do it right before the code: {/foreach}. It should look like:

{/if}
{/foreach}

Full code of this foreach loop should looks like: ( i highlighted added lines with if condition)

{foreach from=$modules item=module}
        {if $module->type != 'addonsMustHave'}        
			<tr>
				<td>
					{if (isset($module->id) && $module->id > 0) || !isset($module->type) || $module->type != 'addonsMustHave'}
					<input type="checkbox" name="modules" value="{$module->name}"
						{if !isset($module->confirmUninstall) OR empty($module->confirmUninstall)}rel="false"{else}rel="{$module->confirmUninstall|addslashes}"{/if}
						class="noborder">
					{/if}
				</td>
				<td><img class="imgm" alt="" src="{if isset($module->image)}{$module->image}{else}../modules/{$module->name}/{$module->logo}{/if}"></td>
				<td>
					<div class="moduleDesc" id="anchor{$module->name|ucfirst}">
						<h3>{$module->displayName}
							{if isset($module->type) && $module->type == 'addonsMustHave'}
								<span class="setup must-have">{l s='Must Have'}</span>
							{else}
								{if isset($module->id) && $module->id gt 0}
									<span class="setup{if isset($module->active) && $module->active eq 0} off{/if}">{l s='Installed'}</span>
								{else}
									<span class="setup non-install">{l s='Not installed'}</span>
								{/if}
							{/if}
						</h3>
						<div class="metadata">
							{if isset($module->author) && !empty($module->author)}
							<dl class="">
								<dt>{l s='Developed by'} :</dt>
								<dd>{$module->author|truncate:20:'...'}</dd>|
							</dl>
							{/if}
							<dl class="">
								<dt>{l s='Version'} :</dt>
								<dd>{$module->version} 
									{if isset($module->version_addons)}({l s='Update'} {$module->version_addons} {l s='Available on PrestaShop Addons'}){/if}
								</dd>|
							</dl>
							<dl class="">
								<dt>{l s='Category'} :</dt>
								<dd>{$module->categoryName}</dd>
							</dl>
						</div>
						<p class="desc">{if isset($module->description) && $module->description ne ''}{l s='Description'} : {$module->description}{else}&nbsp;{/if}</p>
						{if isset($module->message) && (!isset($module->type) || ($module->type != 'addonsMustHave' || $module->type !== 'addonsNative'))}<div class="conf">{$module->message}</div>{/if}
						<div class="row-actions-module">
							{if !isset($module->not_on_disk)}
								{$module->optionsHtml}
								{if isset($module->preferences) && $module->preferences['favorite'] == 1}
									<a class="action_module action_unfavorite toggle_favorite" data-module="{$module->name}" data-value="0" href="#">{l s='Remove from Favorites'}</a>
									<a class="action_module action_favorite toggle_favorite" data-module="{$module->name}" data-value="1" href="#" style="display: none;">{l s='Mark as Favorite'}</a>
								{else}
									<a class="action_module action_unfavorite toggle_favorite" data-module="{$module->name}" data-value="0" href="#" style="display: none;">{l s='Remove from Favorites'}</a>
									<a class="action_module action_favorite toggle_favorite" data-module="{$module->name}" data-value="1" href="#">{l s='Mark as Favorite'}</a>
								{/if}
							{else}
								&nbsp;
							{/if}
						</div>
					</div>
				</td>
				<td>
					<ul id="list-action-button">
						{if isset($module->type) && $module->type == 'addonsMustHave'}
							<li>
								<a href="{$module->addons_buy_url}" target="_blank" class="button updated"><span><img src="../img/admin/cart_addons.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;{if isset($module->id_currency) && isset($module->price)}{displayPrice price=$module->price currency=$module->id_currency}{/if}</span></a>
							</li>
						{else}
							{if $module->id && isset($module->version_addons) && $module->version_addons}
								<li><a href="{$module->options.update_url}" class="button updated"><span>{l s='Update it!'}</span></a></li>
							{/if}
								<li>
									<a {if isset($module->id) && $module->id gt 0 && !empty($module->options.uninstall_onclick)}onclick="{$module->options.uninstall_onclick}"{/if} href="{if isset($module->id) && $module->id gt 0}{$module->options.uninstall_url}{else}{$module->options.install_url}{/if}" class="button installed">
										<span>{if isset($module->id) && $module->id gt 0}{l s='Uninstall'}{else}{l s='Install'}{/if}</span>
									</a>
								</li>
						 {/if}
					</ul>
				</td>
			</tr>
        {/if}            
{/foreach}