GeoShield - Country Restrictions Lite for WooCommerce

GeoShield Lite is a geolocation-based product restriction plugin for WooCommerce. It gives store owners control over which products are visible or purchasable based on a visitor's country. This is useful for stores that need to comply with international licensing agreements, regional distribution contracts, or country-specific product availability rules. How It Works GeoShield Lite primarily uses the built-in WooCommerce geolocation system (MaxMind GeoIP database) to detect a visitor's country. To ensure a seamless "out-of-the-box" experience for stores without a MaxMind configuration, the plugin includes a fail-safe fallback to a legitimate third-party geolocation service. Based on per-product restriction rules you configure, the plugin can either hide products entirely or disable the purchase button for visitors from specified countries. All restriction logic runs locally using WordPress metadata — external API calls are used strictly as a fallback for country identification when local detection is unavailable. Features

• Per-Product Restrictions — Define unique country restriction rules directly within the WooCommerce product editor.
• Variation-Level Overrides — Apply independent geographic rules to specific product variations.
• Blacklist and Whitelist Modes — Block selected countries (blacklist) or allow only selected countries (whitelist).
• Two Restriction Actions — Hide the product completely from the catalog, or keep it visible but disable the purchase button.
• Custom Restriction Messages — Display a configurable message to visitors who are restricted from purchasing.
• Automatic Catalog Filtering — Restricted products are automatically filtered from the shop page, category pages, search results, and related product sections.
• WooCommerce Blocks Compatibility — Works with both classic and block-based Cart and Checkout pages.
• HPOS Compatible — Fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

Configuration After activation, configure restrictions on individual products:

1. Edit any WooCommerce product.
2. Open the Country Restrictions tab in the Product Data panel.
3. Enable restrictions and select your target countries.
4. Choose between Hide Product or Disable Purchase.
5. Save the product.

Global settings are available under the GeoShield > Settings menu.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Product and variation level country restriction support.
• Blacklist and whitelist mode support.
• Hide and disable purchase restriction actions.
• WooCommerce StoreAPI and HPOS compatibility.