No Paypal Drop down Menu?

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  wildtrax22 · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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  Hi Guys,

  I am the Owner and Illustrator of CartoonMyDog.com where I draw peoples pets. My goal is to help to donate to different animal shelters but I was disappointed to find out that WordPress does not support a Paypal drop down price menu.

  The reason for this is so that customers can choose which kind of drawing they would like, plus choose which Non Profit Organization they would like 20% of their payment to go to.

  Is there any alternative to make these drop down menus?

  And if you do take a look at my site and have any suggestions of what I could use to make it better that would be great!

  Thank you

  ~Kendall Falk

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 5:50 pm

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  The dropdowns you are looking for are not available on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. We can only use the unencrypted version and fro that see the guide here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

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  wildtrax22 · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 5:53 pm

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  Timethief, thanks I saw the support for paypal. But that’s only a button.

  Why doesn’t WordPress allow a drop down menu?

  I don’t understand?

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  wildtrax22 · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 6:10 pm

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  There’s got to be another way..

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 6:12 pm

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  There is and it’s called hiring a web host and setting up a WordPress.org install. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  wildtrax22 · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 6:31 pm

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  There is? Okay well I guess that solves that then.

  Thank you :)

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  wildtrax22 · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 7:06 pm

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  Er… wait I’m confused….

  oi.. there is wordpress.org wordpress.com and wordpress that hosts my website http://www.cartoonmydog.com

  I don’t understand that support link at all. Which link do I click after this, there is no direction.. I am lost :/

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  wildtrax22 · Member · Nov 25, 2013 at 7:07 pm

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  AND.. for custom design you have to pay for that? I am already paying for host gator I dont need to pay again.. ahhh

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 26, 2013 at 2:20 am

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  If you’re paying for hosting at hostgator, you can go ahead with what TT told you: build a WordPress.org website and use the drop-downs from Paypal, and whatever else you want.

  That kind of code isn’t available here because it constitutes a security risk. When a site is self-hosted, then understandably it’s allowed to make its own decisions about what’s secure and what’s not. When you host 38 million blogs, who all share their internal software, you can’t allow that kind of leeway.