Funding outreach. Unapologetic beggar.
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I am a builder and have brought my services to Houston and joined with several non profits to rebuild homes after the flood. My efforts are at no cost to the ‘clients’ or the non-profit org’s I’m teaming with. Churches have provided the initial support but many of my followers on social media have expressed a desire to engage with me.
2 questions – Is a ‘donate’ button the best way to allow folks to support this work?
and – How best to publish a ‘journal’ of sorts of the progress we are making – daily? or editing, updating one continuous thread? @mindchildblogThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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(1) PayPal – 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.Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/(2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online or a go fund me type of site you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
If what I provided above in my first response and in my second one here at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com
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Hi there,
@timethief has given you the two option available here to get donations – either adding a button or linking to a donation page on a service that specifically does that.
As for how best to publish, I’d suggest a new blog post for each update (your call how regularly you want to do that). That way people following your site will get a notification that there’s an update, and you can also connect your social media accounts to the site so the new post is shared automatically each time. That won’t happen if you update an existing thread.
You can see here how to connect your social media accounts:
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