Paypal

fluffysausage · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 4:23 pm
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Adding Paypal to my wordpress.com site

I discovered an article in your support forum (god how I hate “Help Forums” – where are the humans!!?) about using Paypal buttons on WordPress.com. I couldn’t make the instructions fit what I was looking at in my UK PayPal account.
Why do WordPress make some things so hard and complicated to do, when a lot of the time they make things simple and great!! Most of the known universe allow us to create PayPal buttons and drop the code straight into the HTML on a page on our websites – Do WordPress… No! (Are you getting the message that I’m a bit hacked off about this? Good! I am!
Can you please tell me how to go down the email route to get the PayPal button of my choice into a page on WordPress.com

Thank you!

Andy

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auxclass · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 4:56 pm
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For starters we need a link to a real blog – the link to your name is broken and fluffysausage is empty
oacltd · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 4:58 pm
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I have loads of them. What about theffff.wordpress.com

Andy
timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:05 pm
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@fluffysausage

(god how I hate “Help Forums” – where are the humans!!?)

Everyone answering questions here is a human being and implying we are not is an insult. We are not only human being we are human being with excellent reading comprehension skills and a desire to help others by providing technical, not emotional support. So whether or not you are hacked off is irrelevant to us.

Bottom line: Without you providing an active URL starting with http:// to the exact blog that you want to post a PayPal button on we cannot provide an accurate answer to any of your questions.
timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:06 pm
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Please clearly state exactly what it is that you need help with and provide an active URL starting with http:// to the exact blog that you are needing the help on.
oacltd · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:10 pm
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First may I say I didnt mean to insult anyone and thought I was finally getting to speak to someone at WordPress.com after spending a lot of time thumbing through the reams of content in the blog. I’m sorry and I meant no harm.

I am in the middle of trying to make a website (transfering it from Google to WordPress) for a friend (http://callybee.wordpress.com) and I need to add a PayPal payment system The one thing to say for Google is I could create the code and drop it into the HTML of the page – why can’t I just do that in WordPress.com?

Andy
timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:13 pm
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E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by WordPress.com. Paid content and/or sponsored content is not allowed.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

On free hosted WordPress.com blog we can use a contact form and/or a PayPal donation button for sale of only products or services created or provided by ourselves.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising, affiliate links, paid or sponsored content you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org
Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ for a comparison
See also > http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/
timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:16 pm
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The one thing to say for Google is I could create the code and drop it into the HTML of the page – why can’t I just do that in WordPress.com?

We bloggers cannot access the PHP that creates the HTML underlying our blogs as this is a muituser blogging platform. Our free hosted WordPress.com blogs are not free standing. They share a common architecture. Here all blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template and only Staff can access and edit those files as every edit made effects all blogs wearing the same theme. Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ for a comparison
oacltd · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:17 pm
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Thank You for that. I will work through the links you have sent me after tea, it being 18:20 here, I am hungry

Sorry again about the somewhat lumpy intro

Andy
timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:20 pm
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You’re welcome. The bottom line here is if you cannot function with the use of a Paypal donation button only then you need to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.ORG install with free software found here http://wordpress.org/ Then export your content out of the free hosted blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the new WordPress.org install.
auxclass · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:28 pm
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Has your friend considered using something like Etsey? – it is set up to sell things – shopping cart and everything built in
oacltd · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:29 pm
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We have thought of Etsy. I will take to her again about it

A
timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:30 pm
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The Etsy mini widget cannot be used on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. For a workaround see here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-and-where-to-post-the-etsy-mini-code?replies=4#post-937853
auxclass · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 5:33 pm
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I meant just put all the crafts on Etsy and a modest web site / blog with some stuff about the artist and maybe some features on different items – but be careful about just being a token site that directs traffic to another site

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