Description
By default WooCommerce lets a customer pick ANY state/province of a country you sell to — even regions you have no shipping method for. They get all the way to checkout, see “no shipping method available for your address”, and abandon the order.
Region Lock removes the regions you choose from WooCommerce’s address dropdowns, so customers can’t select them in the first place. Set the regions once, per country, for any country you sell to — no code, no theme edits.
Features
- Pick the exact states/provinces to hide, grouped by the countries you sell to.
- Works for any WooCommerce country that has states/provinces (Spain’s Canary Islands, US states, Italian provinces, and so on).
- Searchable region picker built into a clean admin screen.
- Safe by design: if you later stop selling to a country, stored regions for it are ignored — nothing breaks.
- Part of the Extova plugin family — one clean “Extova” menu in your sidebar.
Installation
- Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin -> choose the .zip -> Install Now -> Activate. WooCommerce must be installed and active.
- Go to Extova -> Region Lock, pick the regions you don’t ship to, and Save.
FAQ
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Does it hide the region from billing as well as shipping?
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Yes. The regions are removed from WooCommerce’s state list, so they no longer appear in the address dropdowns at all — which is exactly what you want when you can’t deliver there.
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What happens if I stop selling to a country I had regions blocked for?
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Nothing breaks. Stored regions for countries you no longer sell to are simply ignored.
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Contributors & Developers
“Region Lock – Hide States & Provinces at Checkout for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.2
- Fixed: the region picker now also lists the states/provinces that a theme or a localization plugin adds to a country (for example a complete set of Spanish provinces), so the picker matches exactly what customers see at checkout.
1.1.1
- New: translations for Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese.
- Housekeeping: leaner package, prepared for the WordPress.org plugin directory.
1.1.0
- New: the region picker focuses on the countries you sell to. Selling worldwide? It shows your store’s base country by default (with a note on how to widen it), so the list stays short.
- Improved: clearer region picker — a real field label, tidier spacing, and a searchable multiselect that renders correctly.
- Fixed: your selected regions now save reliably — they no longer reset to empty after saving.
1.0.1
- Fixed: the region picker showed “none of the countries you sell to have states/provinces to hide” even for countries that do (US, Spain, Italy, …). WooCommerce’s bundled state map is returned by its data file rather than assigned to a global, and the picker now reads it the same way WooCommerce does.
1.0.0
- Initial release: per-country region picker, safe woocommerce_states filtering, Extova admin shell.