paypal button

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  616adventures · Member · Jan 29, 2014 at 4:36 am

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  I have tried to add a paypal button to my blog in the text widget. However every time I attempt this and save the widget nothing shows up on my page and when I return to edit, most of the code is deleted.

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  lilycatbyrne · Member · Jan 29, 2014 at 12:13 pm

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  I completely agree. There is a page on WordPress help about how to add a Paypal button but its SO complicated- press this, click that, go here, go there. For advanced WP users, I think!

  When I had my blog on Blogger, it was simple. Get a code from Paypal, put it in the widget, and that was that. WordPress really need to add a Paypal widget to their list. Simple, quick, easy, like Blogger.

  I have 5 items to sell, so I have to get 5 separate buttons, faff around, go round the houses. With Blogger, you could do a drop down list of items, and it took two minutes.

  Come on WordPress! Get your act together!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 29, 2014 at 12:22 pm

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  Don’t use the code from Paypal. Use the instructions from WordPress.

  It is not necessary to understand the instructions in order to execute them. They work. All other methods will fail.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

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  lilycatbyrne · Member · Jan 29, 2014 at 1:37 pm

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  I followed those instructions. They did not work. That’s how it is :(

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  616adventures · Member · Jan 29, 2014 at 5:25 pm

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  you still must paste your code into the text widget….which is what I have been doing……

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  gaugemediagroup · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 11:10 pm

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  I tried the text widget also.. Still did not work.. I got it to work fine if I just insert the button and have add to cart.. But need to capture information from the user. Anyone else have a suggestion?

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  gaugemediagroup · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 11:31 pm

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  Just talked to pay pal technical support.. They told me if I want to have any type of forum or drop down options I am going to have to use a service outside of word press. Put the drop down and fill in the blank options on that service then have users return to my word press site..

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 11:48 pm

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  Look, YOU CANNOT USE ANY KIND OF FORUM OR DROP DOWN OPTIONS and if you had been following the proper instructions I pointed you to, you’d have stopped this long before. You can’t use any shopping cart code either.

  Jesus. The code works. But only the proper code, specially adapted for WordPress.com as explained in the Support documents.

  Following the correct instructions has earned me several thousand dollars. If you want to continue to follow the wrong ones and try to do things you cannot, be my guest but quit complaining.

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  nelizadrew · Member · Jan 31, 2014 at 2:42 pm

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  So, I need to rebuild the site somewhere else.
  Anyone have a suggestion? Because the limitations of just a “Buy Now” button is… stupid. Lame. Elementary. Useless.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 31, 2014 at 2:45 pm

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  Everyone here by definition has chosen to be hosted at WordPress.com. If you want suggestions for other hosts, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

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  lilycatbyrne · Member · Jan 31, 2014 at 5:17 pm

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  It is a reasonable request for a good site like WordPress to have a simple Paypal button, as I mentioned Blogger has. I’m sure there is a way for one of the WP staff to make one.

  WordPress is better than Blogger, except in some areas like this. I followed the instructions. At step 14 it just came up with a line of code.