About this plugin
Bangladeshi stores usually ask customers to type their thana or upazila into a
free text box. Customers spell it differently every time, delivery staff have
to guess, and couriers reject addresses they cannot match.
This plugin replaces that text box with a dropdown. The customer picks a
District, and the Thana / Upazila list updates instantly to show only
the areas inside that district.
Complete, current data
- All 64 districts, using the official English spellings adopted in 2018:
Chattogram, Cumilla, Barishal, Jashore and Bogura.
- 620 thanas and upazilas in total.
- Metropolitan police thanas are included alongside rural upazilas for Dhaka,
Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Barishal and
Rangpur. A customer in Mirpur, Uttara, Panchlaish or Sonadanga can select
their actual area rather than the nearest rural upazila.
Built for real stores
- Works on the checkout, My Account address forms, and the cart shipping
calculator.
- Nothing is preselected. The district field prompts “Please select district”
and the thana field prompts “Please select district first” until a district
is chosen, then “Please select thana”.
- Districts WooCommerce would otherwise prefill from your shop base address or
IP geolocation are cleared, so a customer outside your own city is never
quoted the wrong delivery charge because they skimmed past a guessed field.
A returning customer’s own saved address is left untouched.
- Declares compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage
(HPOS) and the Cart and Checkout Blocks features.
- Adds no database tables, no settings page, and no admin bloat. The data ships
as plain PHP arrays, so there are no extra queries on the checkout.
- Around 3 KB of gzipped data is added to the checkout page, loaded only where
address fields are actually rendered.
Data sources
District and thana names are cross-checked against the Dhaka Metropolitan
Police station directory and public Bangladesh administrative division records.
Credits
This plugin is a derivative work distributed under the GNU General Public
License v2 or later.
- The states and places architecture, and the cascading select script, come
org/plugins/wc-city-select/
- The Bangladesh adaptation, “Thana/Upazila Dropdown for Woocommerce
[Bangladesh]”, is by Md Rasel Khan,
com/immdraselkhan/Thana-Upazila-Dropdown-for-Woocommerce-Bangladesh