exclude state from only shipping option

Hi @peregrine12,

You could customize this snippet to exclude Florida: https://www.speakinginbytes.com/2013/12/ship-continental-us/

Cheers,

Praveen,

Thank you so much for your considerate response and the snippet. However, I added it to my functions.php and it does not exclude the states. I tried the various options on https://gist.github.com/BFTrick/7805588 and they don’t work (I actually posted a comment at the end of that). The last function works but that applies to all state lists and I need shipping only. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

Any help on this from someone? My client is waiting to go live. Thank you.

I would expect this to work:
Dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Add Shipping Zone
call it say Custom States List
Edit
then at Zone regions, add the other 49 states. A bit tedious but no code needed.

Thanks, but doesn’t work. The excluded states still show in the shipping dropdown list.

Try this snippet:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_states', 'custom_woocommerce_states' );
function custom_woocommerce_states( $states ) {
  $states['US'] = array(
    'AL' => __( 'Alabama', 'woocommerce' ),
    'AK' => __( 'Alaska', 'woocommerce' ),
    'AZ' => __( 'Arizona', 'woocommerce' ),
    'AR' => __( 'Arkansas', 'woocommerce' ),
  );
  return $states;
}

You can get the full list from:
wp-plugins/woocommerce/i18n/states/us.php
then delete the non-continental lines. If you want to sell to Florida, leave it in.

The thing is, you can’t sell to a state you don’t ship to. If a Floridian tries to make a purchase, they would get a “No shipping methods exist for your location” error.

“Ship” is a wide term and can mean any method, not just post. So, if you want to sell to Florida, you will need to set it up as shipping zone with a shipping method, local pickup for example. You can change the name “local pickup” to reflect however a Floridian would get the goods if you do not ship there.

Thanks, Lorro. Based on your explanation I think we need to re-consider the approach. Probably not selling to FL is the only way.

@lorro, I needed to exclude a state from my store (Hawaii). Adding your snippet to my child theme’s functions.php, removing the line for Hawaii, did the trick!

Thanks!
Susan

Yes it works. Do you have an idea if a city is not attached to a particular state?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by sevun.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by sevun.

@sevun
Sorry, I don’t understand. Please give an example.

I need to exclude Vatican or Saint Marin in Italy but they are not Province of Italy. Should I just create Province and not add them?

The Vatican and Saint Marin are not states which are part of Italy – they are separate countries.