Hi guys , some of us want to create an online store or basically want to do transactions online

then you go ahead to install woocommerce in wordpress and lets say your the shop is based in

Nigeria or some other country , but to your surprise you discover that the states are not included .

To make matters worse you get is this error saying “currency not supported” when trying to

include paypal as a means of payment .

Dont fret because I have go the solution for you.

Well all you need to do is to navigate to plugins/woocommerce/includes/gateways/paypal

then look for “function is_valid_for_use() “

Add NGN to the array , then you are done . But I wont recommend you adding code directly like

that its usually better to create a child theme first. I will cover creating of child theme in another

tutorial but if you already know it, what you need to do is to locate your functions.php in your child

theme folder and add this codes below


add_filter( 'woocommerce_paypal_supported_currencies', 'add_bgn_paypal_valid_currency' );
function add_bgn_paypal_valid_currency( $currencies ) {
array_push ( $currencies , 'NGN' );
return $currencies;




From the word 'array_push' its going to add NGN to the array , where NGN is the currency you

want to use ok.


For the states part , I discovered that some countries state are not included in woocommerce

you can check that out by navigating to /plugins/woocommerce/i18n/states then adding your state

like for Nigeria , you will add a NG.php , the content in the script is written below but if you are

working for a different country you can simply use the same format as far as you have the short

codes for your state , haven't said all that , jump into your funtions.php file in your child theme ,

you can still do this in your theme though but its better to use a child theme because once you do an

update on woo commerce all these changes will be lost, which is just annoying

Inside your functions.php file add this code below, this code is for Nigeria







add_filter( 'woocommerce_states', 'custom_woocommerce_states' );

function custom_woocommerce_states( $states ) {

$states['NG'] = array(
'FC' => __( 'Abuja', 'woocommerce' ),
'AB' => __( 'Abia', 'woocommerce' ),
'AD' => __( 'Adamawa', 'woocommerce' ),
'AK' => __( 'Akwa Ibom', 'woocommerce' ),
'AN' => __( 'Anambra', 'woocommerce' ),
'BA' => __( 'Bauchi', 'woocommerce' ),
'BY' => __( 'Bayelsa', 'woocommerce' ),
'BE' => __( 'Benue', 'woocommerce' ),
'BO' => __( 'Borno', 'woocommerce' ),
'CR' => __( 'Cross River', 'woocommerce' ),
'DE' => __( 'Delta', 'woocommerce' ),
'EB' => __( 'Ebonyi', 'woocommerce' ),
'ED' => __( 'Edo', 'woocommerce' ),
'EK' => __( 'Ekiti', 'woocommerce' ),
'EN' => __( 'Enugu', 'woocommerce' ),
'GO' => __( 'Gombe', 'woocommerce' ),
'IM' => __( 'Imo', 'woocommerce' ),
'JI' => __( 'Jigawa', 'woocommerce' ),
'KD' => __( 'Kaduna', 'woocommerce' ),
'KT' => __( 'Katsina', 'woocommerce' ),
'KE' => __( 'Kebbi', 'woocommerce' ),
'KO' => __( 'Kogi', 'woocommerce' ),
'KW' => __( 'Kwara', 'woocommerce' ),
'LA' => __( 'Lagos', 'woocommerce' ),
'NA' => __( 'Nasarawa', 'woocommerce' ),
'NI' => __( 'Niger', 'woocommerce' ),
'OG' => __( 'Ogun', 'woocommerce' ),
'ON' => __( 'Ondo', 'woocommerce' ),
'OS' => __( 'Osun', 'woocommerce' ),
'OY' => __( 'Oyo', 'woocommerce' ),
'PL' => __( 'Plateau', 'woocommerce' ),
'RI' => __( 'Rivers', 'woocommerce' ),
'SO' => __( 'Sokoto', 'woocommerce' ),
'TA' => __( 'Taraba', 'woocommerce' ),
'YO' => __( 'Yobe', 'woocommerce' ),
'ZA' => __( 'Zamfara', 'woocommerce' ),
);

return $states;
}




Then you are done , if you got questions you can holla if not till next time but you read more of my tutorials on http://overallheuristic.com/blog/

Great helpful information. I spent hours trying to work around codes for Nigerian states. I used 234 country code but was not getting it right. You have made my day with this post. Thanks