adding paypal donate button. question to the instructions

  • Unknown's avatar
    vickie1 · Member ·

    Hi,

    I read the instructions, but want to know whether there is a way to add the button one time for it to run across all the pages of the blog. And not to add manually for every post!

    Thanks,

    Vickie

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    lizthefair · Member ·

    If you want the button to appear on every page, you could add it to a text widget in your sidebar. If you aren’t comfortable writing the html from scratch, you can follow the instructions below for adding the button to a page/post and then click over to the text editor, copy the code and paste it into a text widget.

    Just to clarify, make sure you are following these instructions: http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

    If you follow the instructions on the paypal website it won’t work.

    Good luck!

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    vickie1 · Member ·

    Many thanks. I did read the instructions. Do you mean that I can paste the mail link to a text widget? If I follow the wordpress instructions correctly…..

  • Unknown's avatar
    lizthefair · Member ·

    Yes, you will paste the mail link into a text widget but there is a bit more to it than that.

    What you ultimately want is to have an image (the Paypal button) appear in your sidebar. To do that you need to add the image to the text-widget using HTML and then add a hyperlink the image (also using HTML) that points to the mail link you generated at Paypal. The code will look something like this:

    <a href="insertmaillinkincludinghttp://"><img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" alt="Donate Button with Credit Cards" /></a>

    The first part is where the mail link goes (inside the quotation marks). The second part is the link to the Paypal button image. I chose the donate button with credit card images, but you could choose whichever one you wanted.

    Does that clarify things a bit? If it’s still a bit overwhelming let me know which paypal button you want and I can create code you can just add the mail link to and then paste into the text-widget.

  • Unknown's avatar
    vickie1 · Member ·

    Oh, you’re an angel! Because I was going out of my mind with this. Will do it all probably tomorrow, so will let you know! Thanks again.

  • Unknown's avatar
    lizthefair · Member ·

    Happy to help. Hope it all works out :)

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