Cannot copy codes from PayPal Buy Now button
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Created button in Paypal with drop downs and free text boxes to collect info. Look at /art-classes/art-class-registration/ Pasted code into HTML but when it’s updated, the drop downs don’t show up and neither does the button. Called Paypal and they said I needed to have you “change the setting to allow use of form tags”. Does that make sense? Can you do that?
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Hello there,
The blog linked to your username is a free hostde WordPress.com blog. Unlike WordPress.org blogs, free hosted WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for e-commerce. On our free hosted WordPress.com blogs we can only use the PayPal unencrypted donation button and you will find the instructions for it here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/If you require e-commerce/shopping cart functionality, there are no restrictions on e-commerce if you setup a self-hosted WordPress.org blog, instead of a free hosted WordPress.com blog. http://wordpress.org/
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Hi. Thanks for the information. We paid for a domain with wordpress.com
Shouldnt I then be able to add a cart button? To be honest I’ll be quite upset if we cant after paying for the domain and spending so much of my already sparse time working on our website.
I apprecaite your advice in advance.
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Oh, and should also mention that I have been through the tutorial in adding a paypal button and still cant seem to get it to work even after linking the paypal code to another image.
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Buying a custom domain name gives you exactly that: a custom domain name.
It doesn’t exempt you from any of the technological or ToS restrictions of WordPress.com. This is a common error. If you ONLY bought the domain so you could embed non-permitted code, you can either ask for a refund if you’ve had the domain less than 48 hours OR you can hold on to it, buy hosting somewhere else, and attach that domain name to your new site.
WordPress.COM is not good for ecommerce. WordPress.ORG is what you want for that.
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Thanks for the info.
I dont mean to sound rude, and I’m certainly not having a personal go, but as a novice to all this, I think it would have been a great idea for wordpress to have established this minor, but rather important detail, on the very first page you see when looking for a blog host and consdiering a domain name.I came to wordpress under a recommendation and it just hasnt been what I was expecting. Which is rather a shame.
We’ve had the site for a few weeks now so a refund probably wont happen. And to be honest, I just cant afford the time to spend doing the website all over again somewhere else. After a frustrating few weeks in the beginning I really like what we’ve managed to make with wordpress (besides ahving paid for customisation and then not knowing how to write css code…another misunderstanding I guess).
Perhaps it should be made clear that it just isnt suitable for ecommerce on the very first page you see when starting out.
Thanks again.
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There’s no point telling ME that. I’m just another blogger, not staff.
Speaking as a business person, every business person runs into dead ends and finds research they SHOULD have done. It’s just the nature of the endeavor. The primary users of WordPress.com are personal and business bloggers, not ecommerce sellers, who primarily gravitate to HTML, Drupal or WordPress.org.
If you’re going to move to another host, you’ll NEED that domain name anyway, so that’s no loss. And all the skills you’ve learned will be transferable to a WordPress.ORG site.
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