Paypal donate button-real easy
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Adding a Paypal donation button is real easy. It’s basically making an image a link. You embed the code for an image inside the code for a link:
“<” a ref=”LINK””>””<“img src=”IMAGE”/”>””<“/a”>” (Remove the quotation marks around < and > and gaps.)
Find Merchant Tools. Pick the Donate button. Choose the non-encryption option.
You will come to a page with two code boxes. Pick the bottom code which is an URL: “https ….” (the Paypal donation page you want to link to) and put it in the LINK position. Now you want to add the image of the button. Find the code that ends in “gif” and put that in the “IMAGE” position. (Be careful, there are two image codes you can choose from. Pick the first one that appears in the code block.)
Save and view. When you click on the button (image) it should take you to the Paypal donation page.
This is for the main part of the blog, not for the side column. I don’t know how to make a widget.
Note you cannot copy and paste the HTML code directly from Paypal as WordPress does not accept the “form” tag.
I’ve posted this up because I found some threads on the Paypal donation button but found them unclear.
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I’ve also found how to make a Paypal widget for the sidebar.
Go to Design page.
Find “Widgets”.
Choose “Text widget”.
A box will open.
Put the same HTML code above in the first post in the box. (Make sure you put in ‘a href’ not ‘a ref’. See post immediately above.)
Save.
View your blog. You will find the Paypal donate button in the sidebar.
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i’m failing on this. it simply doesn’t save when i click “save changes”. if i immediately click the “edit” button on the text widget, i can see it, but if i go to my site and then go back, it’s not on the site and it’s not in the text widget anymore. anyone know what i’m missing?
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Are you trying to use the encrypted version? That won’t work. Just use the non-encrypted version.
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infamousqbert, try to click save changes, when you first add the text widget, and again after entering the text.
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sorry my answer was a little inappropriate.
If the code you are entering is not correct, a failed ending for example, or if it is javascript, then wordpress will strip it out. -
Thank you, I have taken your advice and it works like a charm….
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Thank you so much I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure this one out!!!
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If you’re interested in donations via PayPal, I’ve recently created a post (with graphic illustration) about the amount of money you should request considering the commissions PayPal will charge for different donation amounts.
You can check it out here:
http://hillelstoler.com/2008/05/06/donations-via-paypal-how-much-is-just-right -
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This is the correct link (and it works in widget position)
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WTF!?!!?!
.<.a href=”link”.>.<.img src=”image” alt=”text”/.>.<./a.>
just remove all dots
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The instructions for using the code in a text widget are located quite low on the FAQ page.
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Yes, it IS a widget button. It’s a Paypal button in a widget. What do YOU mean by the term.
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