Donation

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  fund4one · Member · Oct 22, 2016 at 6:21 am

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  Hello, I’m trying to add a PayPal donation button to my page, but when I try to save it, the code edits on it’s own and the button disappears. I am also unclear as if I can add a plug in specific to donations. I have read many tutorials and am still unclear as how I should proceed. Thank you for your time and assistance.

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  jjberg83 · Member · Oct 22, 2016 at 7:15 am

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  You cannot a plugin on WordPress.com. To install new plugins, you would need a self hosted WordPress.org site. If you don’t know the difference, check out this link.

  However, it’s still possible to add a Paypal donation button to your page on a WordPress.com site. I’m not sure why it is disappearing for you though. Maybe you could try out the technique that’s being showed in this link (Method 2 is for WordPress.com sites).

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  jjberg83 · Member · Oct 22, 2016 at 7:16 am

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  Sorry, the first sentence was supposed to be:

  You cannot add a plugin on WordPress.com

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 22, 2016 at 7:24 am

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  Hey there, Your first stop for all things WordPressdotcom should be the WordPressdotcom Support site. Check out the top of each forum page

  Need help? Check out our Support site, then search the forums

  Here’s the info for adding a PayPal button: https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/get-paypal-button-code/

  Let us know if you need more help with that.

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  fund4one · Member · Oct 29, 2016 at 4:52 am

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  Thank you both! @justjennifer, I created a thank you donation page and was hoping that the donate button could open paypal in a new window. Is this possible?

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 29, 2016 at 7:13 am

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  Hello again, I’m not sure if it will work, but try adding

  target="_blank"

  to the link itself after the button ID number. You do need to add a space after the ending quote mark of the button ID number and before the word target.