Using the PAY WITH PAYPAL widget

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    larryg972 · Member ·

    Greetings WP.COM,

    Volunteered to work a charity website that is hosted on the WP.COM website and frankly, finding the restrictive-ness of WP.COM (on anything but BUSINESS plan) is very frustrating for someone who is used to working with WP.ORG websites that permit WIDE OPEN development. Totally get your business model but I have run up against so many “can’t do it here” situations, my head has a large flat spot on it.

    OK, on to my question …

    Using the provided PAY WITH PAYPAL widget (for a Premium account), it appears trying to override the JETPACK CSS is pointless, as your system is overriding the override.

    If this is the widget provided to customers, then customizing the CSS to make said implementation more aesthetically pleasing would be most helpful. All I was trying to do was move the widget photo up and closeup the spaces between the DIVs (Item Name, Description, Price, etc.).

    Planning to switch from your provided widget to the PayPal implementation outlined here (https://wordpress.com/support/paypal/). That should be a little closer to what I am used to dealing with.

    LarryG

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi Larry,

    Can you give us a link to the post/page where you’re using the PayPal payments block, and can you also tell us the CSS you tried to style that block? Then we can take a look for you.

    Also note that your premium plan gives you access to both live chat and direct email support for help with issues like this. You can reach those at any time by clicking the Help icon that appears bottom-right on all the My Sites pages, or else via the direct link at https://wordpress.com/help/contact

    Planning to switch from your provided widget to the PayPal implementation outlined here (https://wordpress.com/support/paypal/).

    That option is really just a basic Donate/Buy Now link you get from PayPal’s website, which you can then add to any element on the page that can by hyperlinked. It’s not a full product listing, with image, description, and set price, like the payments block, so you’d need to create all that, including the actual button, from scratch.

    Of course, it’s entirely up to you if you prefer to do it that way :)

    To help with styling the button and other elements you create, the block editor offers a simple way to add a class to any block you add to a post or page. When adding/modifying a specific block, click the Advanced heading in the editor sidebar and you’ll be able to add your own custom class to the block there. Then you can use that class as the selector when adding custom CSS code in the Customizer.

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