Change Default Country from US to Ireland

Hey there!

Can you tell me more about what you are meaning when you say it’s defaulting to US?

A link to where we can see this in action would be helpful.”

Have a great one!

Hi @gavodel,

The default country you’re referring to is set by the local code that we send to PayPal when rendering the PayPal buttons on the page.

When I look up Ireland in the list of PayPal’s supported locale codes, I don’t see a unique locale code and it just says to use United States English (en_US): https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/reference/locale-codes/#supported-locale-codes

Even though it’s not documented by PayPal I have just tested using ‘en_IE’ as the locale code and that produces the desired outcome you’re looking for: https://d.pr/i/RaTv26

In order to customise the locale_code you will need to add the following code snippet to your functions.php:

function gavodel_ppec_use_ireland_locale_code( $default_code ) {
    return 'en_IE';
}

add_filter( 'woocommerce_paypal_express_checkout_paypal_locale', 'gavodel_ppec_use_ireland_locale_code', 10, 1 );

Let me know how that goes.

Cheers!

We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

– Joey