Link Widget – Inserting a “Donate” Button!
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I have a secondary blog over on Blogger that I have linked back to my word press blog. It was a quick and easy remedy to facilitate what our work needs at the moment.
Aside from being a writer I am also a Religion Major and I have been part of a service ministry to my readers for many years over on Blogger – when I decided to come over here.
In the past, on other blogs, (ie after katrina) and the likes, as well, with parents who needed help with disabled children who needed some financial support, pay pal came in very handy for them and us.
What I want to know is (what are the rules of engagement) in having readers able to donate to ministry work within the parameters of Word Press. My pay pal button is not hosted here – but on Blogger, but is linked back to this primary blogging site.
Since I have only been here a few months, maybe someone in the Word Press Rules of Engagement office can tell me whether or not I am breaking some cardinal rule of the Word Press Community???
If so I will remove my links.
It is easier to ask then to hunt through pages of text.
Thanks
Jeremy A.
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Hi guys,
Well after quite a bit of searching through these forums, I finally found the solution in words I could understand (doh – sorry guys, having a bad few days)!
So this is the SIMPLE solution to making an image clickable and linking it to another website/URL etc.
The following is copied from notes I’ve made for myself!
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OK, Firstly, this relates to the site:
http://wordpress.com– ONLY!To link an image to a webpage, it’s important to remember the following:
1) If using Paypal (for example) – the link required will be the Email link and NOT the html link for a website.
2) The following link is based on uploading an image to your WordPress.com account first (Dashboard/Write)
3) Once you’ve uploaded the image, write down or copy the URL of your image file (it’ll be found in the Dashboard – Manage/Uploads – and then double click the image you’ve just uploaded to display the html link information of your image).
4) Go to Presentation/Sidebar Widgets and add a Text Widget for the linked Image file you’re about to create.
5) Now simply add a link in the following format inside the TEXT widget:<a href="insert website link here"><img src="insert picture file link here including file extension.gif"></a>————————————-
If anyone is still not sure, please post back here and I’ll run you through it step-by-step.
Thanks for all the support everyone.
Have a great weekSteve
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Steve, can you walk me thru it? I dont understand the “uploading image” part. Its a code that I copied from the paypal site. There is no image.
Mark
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Mark, chances are you’re coping the wrong code. Please see a few posts up for the discussion of which code to use from Paypal.
Jeremy, not sure why you’re telling us your life story but you’ll note a few posts above yours is the solution.
Regards,
-drmike -
Ok, I admit I am not technical WHATSOEVER. I copied the code from paypal, but its NOT AN IAGE FILE. Its a code. Further, I don’t know or understand how to add “donate” to the top of the blue bar. I apologize for my ignorance but I am a step-by-step guy like youre talking to a 2 year old.
Mark
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OK, let’s start from the beginning.
What’s the code that paypal gave you? (Please note that to post code here in the forums, you need to put it between backticks. That’s the key above the tab key on a PC keyboard)
And also do you have an image that you want to use?
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`<form method=”post” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr”><img border=”0″ width=”1″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif” height=”1″ />
</form>’
I thought this was the image.
Mark
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That’s the HTML code we’re discussing up above. When you go through all the link creation stuff as mentioned in the walkthru a few posts up, it will give you two bits of code. One is the form that you give (they label it as HTML code) and the other is the email code. The email code is the one that you want to use. It will start with the following:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/Take that code and put it in the code that steevg lists as the “insert weblink” bit. Find some image off of Paypal’s site for you to use (You’ll probably have to upload it to your wp.com site) and put that into the img tag bit.
Put all of that into a text widget and save it.
Hope this helps,
-drmike -
All’ya’ll – you just rock my world. Thanks for all the support. Like the Wonderbra of support. xo c-grl
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Oh My Goodness, I actually did it…
‘<img src=”(image link here from word press)”>‘
Whoop!!!
I’m so silly, but this is the coding. Get the “email link” from Pay Pal (donations area) Security settings to “No” and then get the email code. Then right click the pay pal button and save the img to your computer. Upload the image to your WP blog and click edit and capture the link and take that link, with the email link from Pay Pal and paste it into the form above and put it into a “Text widget” and voila – there it is …
Jeremy
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What I did was to save a picture of the paypal donate button and copy it to my photobucket account. It automatically generates an html tag of <img src=”blah blah blah”> and then you preface that entry with the and close the at then end of the entry.
This worked well for me.
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sorry about my last entry, If you put code in here it acts like a link.
It would essentially look like this. I am using parenthesis in place of the brackets so it will not read it as code.(a href=”the email code that paypal generates”)(img src=”whatever the link to your picture is)(/a)
Steve had the right answer back on page one. Thanks dude!!
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