PayPal Button

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  turtlemoonimpressions · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 10:53 am

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  I don’t understand the directions. Is it a text widget? Where do I insert the code from Paypal?

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 11:34 am

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  Hi
  Just so we are talking about the same thing, are you looking at :
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/get-paypal-button-code/ ?

  About half way down it says

  You will see now see two sets of code:

  Website tab – provides HTML code
  Email tab – provides a plain link
  This is important!
  Believe it or not, you do not want the the code for websites! WordPress.com does not let users post web forms so the website code would be stripped. You must use the link provided in the Email tab. This is the link that you’ll be attaching to your button image. Keep this window open, as you’ll need to copy that URL soon.
  Use this link on your site to create a button on your site by following instructions 2-6 here.

  The instructions 2-6 are at:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ they tell you what you need to do with the code.

  Hope that helps!
  dave

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  turtlemoonimpressions · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 12:46 pm

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  I got that part, but after I capyure the code, where do I go on my website? To widgets or plug-ins?

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 12:51 pm

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  Hi
  Did you look at the instructions at:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  they tell you what you need to do with the code. :-)

  dave

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  turtlemoonimpressions · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 1:38 pm

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  I did read thatbut it doesn’t tell me where to find that Place. It says:
  Step 3

  Your link code goes between the quotation marks where it says ‘YOUR-LINK-HERE’ in the code provided below:

  
  <img src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif” alt=”Buy Now Button” />
  
  You’ll want to copy the code above, with your link in the ‘YOUR-LINK-HERE’ space, to be ready to paste it into a post or page in the next step.

  I can’t find where “YOUR-Link-Here” space is on my website.

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 2:22 pm

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  Ok this is a 2 part question!
  1) In step 3
  Your link code goes between the quotation marks where it says ‘YOUR-LINK-HERE’ in the code provided below:
  

  <a href="YOUR-LINK-HERE">
  <img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif" alt="Buy Now Button" />
  </a>

  means you are supposed to paste the link code replacing the

  YOUR-LINK-HERE

  2) Then in step 4 it tells you:

  To place your PayPal button on a post or page, you can paste that code into the ‘HTML’ tab when creating or editing the post or page.

  When editing the page, you need to put that completed code in the HTML editor tab:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/ UNLESS
  You want the Paypal button to go in a sidebar. If that is the case do step 5

  I hope that is a bit clearer
  dave

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 2:25 pm

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  And you want to copy ALL of the completed code between including the
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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 26, 2017 at 2:27 pm

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  <a and /a> forgot to tell it i was inserting code!

  :-)
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