Woocommerce Checkout: Add placeholder in country dropdown [duplicate] - wordpress

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in the checkout of my Woocommerce-Shop is a dropdown to choose your country.
On default the USA is automatically selected already.
How to just have a placeholder with “select your country” instead?
I couldn’t find any solution to this topic somebody have any idea?
I changed the other Placeholders which aren't Dropdowns but are inside the same form:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields' , 'override_billing_checkout_fields', 20, 1 );
function override_billing_checkout_fields( $fields ) {
$fields['billing']['billing_first_name']['placeholder'] = 'First Name*';
$fields['billing']['billing_last_name']['placeholder'] = 'Last Name*';
$fields['billing']['billing_city']['placeholder'] = 'Town / City*';
$fields['billing']['billing_postcode']['placeholder'] = 'ZIP*';
$fields['billing']['billing_email']['placeholder'] = 'Email Address*';
return $fields;
}
My poor solution for now is: I created a new "Country in the Dropdown List" which I just named: select your country* and then just selected it on default instead of the USA. But the problem is here that the system thinks a real country is chosen already so it's not a mandatory field anymore and also the fact that it just doesn't look usual for the user when they choose their country:
function woo_add_my_country( $country ) {
$country["PLACE"] = 'select your country*';
return $country;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_countries', 'woo_add_my_country', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'default_checkout_billing_country', 'bbloomer_change_default_checkout_country' );
function bbloomer_change_default_checkout_country() {
return 'PLACE';
}
I would appreciate any help or tips!

Answer 1

This is working for my side try this
// Change the default country and state on checkout page.
// This works for a new session.
add_filter( 'default_checkout_country', 'xa_set_default_checkout_country' );
add_filter( 'default_checkout_state', 'xa_set_default_checkout_state' );
function xa_set_default_checkout_country() {
// Returns empty country by default.
return null;
// Returns India as default country.
// return 'IN';
}
function xa_set_default_checkout_state() {
// Returns empty state by default.
return null;
// Returns Madhya Pradesh as default state.
// return 'MP';
}
function woo_add_my_country( $country ) {
$country["PLACE"] = 'select your country*';
return $country;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_countries', 'woo_add_my_country', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'default_checkout_billing_country', 'bbloomer_change_default_checkout_country' );
function bbloomer_change_default_checkout_country() {
return 'PLACE';
}

Answer 2

Just go to WooCommerce > Settings.
On General tab you will find Default customer location. Set it to No location by default

Answer 3

This was one of the first results that popped up for me when searching how to set a placeholder for a select field on the Woocommerce checkout page, so for any future visitors:
I have a company select field that I populate dynamically with values from the database. In order to set a placeholder value, I just add an option with a blank value.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields' , 'populate_company_field' );
function populate_company_field($fields) {
$results = get_results_from_database();
$options[''] = __('Choose your company', 'gs'); //add blank value = placeholder
foreach ($results as $result) {
if (!empty($result->company)) {
$options[$result->ID] = $result->company;
}
}
$fields['billing']['company']['options'] = $options;
return $fields;
}