Allowing shipping only to the continental US

Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii is very different from shipping to the rest of the continental United States. The rates and time to deliver are much higher. You may want to disable some or all shipping methods from shipping to those states. You could do this with Table Rate Shipping but if you don't want to purchase that extension you could write a bit of code that does the same thing.

Getting ready

Make sure shipping is enabled on your site. See the Setting a minimum order amount to unlock free shipping recipe in this chapter to see how this is done.

How to do it…

In order to only allow shipping to the continental US, let's go through the following steps:

1. Open up your theme's functions.php file, which is located at wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/, or a custom WooCommerce plugin in your code editor. Paste the following code at the bottom of the file:

   function woocommerce_cookbook_only_ship_to_continental_us( $available_methods ) { 
       global $woocommerce...