PayPayl donation button

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  shaaniel · Member · Jun 17, 2013 at 6:03 pm

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  Hello,
  I’m trying to put a PayPal donation button on my blog, but it s not working. I have followed the step, put the embed code in the text widget, but it does not appear on the website. What should I do?
  Thank you!!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jun 18, 2013 at 2:29 pm

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  Hi there, could you please provide a link to the site where the donation code isn’t working in the widget so I can take a look? Thanks!

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  shaaniel · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 12:32 am

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  It’s for http://www.alleyesonbrazil.com

  At the end of the page, in the footer.

  Thanks!

  Shaan

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jun 19, 2013 at 2:12 pm

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  Hi there, it looks like you just picked up an invisible PayPal tracking image, not the whole piece of code you need. This is all I see in your widget:

  <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">

  Woud you mind trying to run through the PayPal instructions again step-by-step? The code you copy-paste at the end needs to include a link, and a button graphic as well.

  If you run into trouble at any point, let me know which step number and we can take it from there.

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  shaaniel · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 6:15 pm

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  Hello,

  The code I used is this one (below) but when I copy paste it in the text box in my widget, it automatically changes for the one above. I used the same code for another website and it worked, the button appeared…

  <form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post” target=”_top”>
  <input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_s-xclick”>
  <input type=”hidden” name=”hosted_button_id” value=”3KNLH2C9X2K8C”>
  <input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!”>
  <img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif” width=”1″ height=”1″>
  </form>

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jun 21, 2013 at 6:21 pm

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  Hi there, thanks for this.

  What you’ve provided is form code, which isn’t something we allow on WordPress.com for security reasons. You can learn more You’ll need to follow the here about the types of code we allow on WordPress.

  You’ll need to follow our PayPal instructions exactly, in order to generate a PayPal button which is not a form. Please take particular note of step 7, where you need to choose the email option, not the website option. If you choose the wrong option at this point in the process you’ll end up with form code that’s not usable on WordPress.com. :-)

  Let me know how it goes!