Adding a PayPal Donate button to website
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I had added the html for a donate button awhile back from PayPal and now I see it is all messed up. I can’t find the place to fix it. My IT guy said WordPress has broken the ability to insert forms into widgets. Is this true? How can I add the donate button now?
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Hi @buddynationangels, have you tried these steps?
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Thank you so much! The one error I made was selecting the html for websites! I will try again this morning with these instructions.
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Well, it’s still not working. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Followed each step, went back, amended, did over, still nothing. Getting really frustrated now.
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All wordpress.com support documentation is at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
Search for paypal https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=paypal
Results https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/Do not use any instructions other than the ones provided in the support doc I linked to above.
Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all. -
Thank you so much, I’ve gone through all the steps and the donate button just doesn’t work. I run a non-profit to help homeless dogs in my city with veterinary care. The donate button is very important. Quite frustrating.
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Hi @buddynationangels, if you have upgrades with us you can access chat support here:
http://wordpress.com/help/contactIf you don’t … no worries. We can help here.
Can you start by getting the email code for your paypal button, please? Just paste it here as is.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/get-paypal-button-code/Pick one of these buttons, too, choose “Get code” and paste that here inside “code” tags.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/buttons/ -
This is my email donate link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4MRJS8327457NI have done everything your post suggested and it still won’t show as a button or even a link. I don’t have upgrades to access chat support.
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@buddynationangels which button do you want to use? Please pick one here:
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I want to use this one:
<img src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/i/btn/png/btn_donate_cc_147x47.png” alt=”Donate”>The donate with credit cards
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Thanks. Can you try this code in a text widget?
<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4MRJS8327457N" target="_new"><img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/i/btn/png/btn_donate_cc_147x47.png" alt="Donate"></a> -
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