### [Customizing the State Field for the United Kingdom in the International Address Scheme](https://wpforms.com/developers/customizing-the-state-field-for-the-united-kingdom-in-the-international-address-scheme/) **Published:** April 20, 2026 **Author:** Umair Majeed **Content:** Would you like to customize how the State/Province/Region field behaves when a user selects the United Kingdom in your Address field? When using the International scheme, WPForms hides the State/Province/Region field by default for the United Kingdom, since the UK doesn’t use states in the traditional sense. If you’d like to collect a value such as the country (England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland) or county instead, you can do that with a custom code snippet. This tutorial will show you how to re-enable the State/Province/Region field for the United Kingdom, change its label, and replace the text input with a dropdown of UK countries. --- ## Creating the Snippet Before we get started, be sure to check out our tutorial on how to [add custom code snippets](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-add-custom-php-or-javascript-for-wpforms/#using-wpcode-plugin-recommended) to your site. This snippet does two things. First, it removes the United Kingdom from the list of countries that hide the State/Province/Region field. Second, it adds a small piece of JavaScript to the frontend that updates the field’s label and replaces the text input with a dropdown whenever the user selects the United Kingdom. Go ahead and add the following snippet to your site. ``` /** * Customize the Address field State/Province/Region input when * the United Kingdom is selected in the International scheme. * * @link https://wpforms.com/developers/customizing-the-state-field-for-the-united-kingdom-in-the-international-address-scheme */ add_filter( 'wpforms_forms_fields_address_frontend_strings_list_countries_without_states', 'wpf_forms_fields_address_frontend_strings_list_countries_without_states' ); function wpf_forms_fields_address_frontend_strings_list_countries_without_states( $countries ) { return array_diff( $countries, [ 'GB' ] ); } add_action( 'wpforms_frontend_js', 'wpf_forms_fields_address_frontend_great_britain_countries_list' ); function wpf_forms_fields_address_frontend_great_britain_countries_list( $forms) { $load = false; foreach ( $forms as $form ) { if ( wpforms_has_field_type( 'address', $form ) ) { $load = true; break; } } if ( ! $load ) { return; } ?> **Categories:** Tutorials, Fields ---