woocommerce shipping setup

Patrick Rauland has a nice post about “Only Shipping Continental US”:
https://speakinginbytes.com/2013/12/ship-continental-us/

You can change the excluded states array:

$excluded_states = array( 'AK','HI','GU','PR' );

And then add your notice on the cart page.

thanks man but eded up buying a plugin, hate editing core files.

Which plugin did you buy?

The blog post didn’t edit core files, it used a filter which is very much the WordPress way.