copy paste URL for video from youtube

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 16, 2013 at 10:37 pm

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  Do you want Donate in the menu bar to go directly to the donation system on PayPal, or do you want it to go to your donation page on the blog?

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  fullcirclesd · Member · May 16, 2013 at 11:08 pm

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  I tried posting the paypal url in 3 different places. By pressing the link icon picture to add a new link, by pressing the Link word in text edit and copy pasting the url and even just directly in the body of post. Either way the button does not work.

  I want people to be able to go to the donation page and read the contents and choose to click on the donate button within the page to donate through pay pal.

  Please let me know.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 16, 2013 at 11:11 pm

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  Right, there aren’t three ways to do it, just the one way detailed in this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

  From what I see there, that hasn’t been done yet.

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  fullcirclesd · Member · May 16, 2013 at 11:27 pm

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  My words might not be the right lingo in my explaination. I have thought I have done how it is explained. I have tried varies ways because apparently I don’t understand. So I figured one way would be it. Perhaps you or someone can explain more simply for a newbe how and where to past the url to make the button go live. Thank you.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 16, 2013 at 11:32 pm

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  Sure, let’s start over since your current page has the PayPal URL inserted into the page slug and a few other things that are wrong.

  First, create a new page called “Donate”

  No, in that page follow the guide at http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ to insert a linked Donate button into the page content, not the title.

  Once that’s done, let me know the URL of the new page so I can take a look.

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  santakev · Member · May 19, 2013 at 12:43 am

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  I’m having an issue embedding YouTube videos. I copied the url, pasted it in the body of my text. When I look at my actual blog, there is no video, but there is the link to the YouTube video. I returned to my text page in admin, and saw that the url was in a different color. So, I unlinked the url so the type is black. However, when I look at the actual blog, the hyperlink url remains. Any ideas?
  Here is the blog: http://nittygrittydirtman.wordpress.com

  Thanks.

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  santakev · Member · May 19, 2013 at 1:43 am

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  I figured it out! I needed to use the shortcode and the brackets at the start and end of the url.