When I publish paypal button to blog, just text no image

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  trustedauthority1 · Member · Mar 13, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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  Have mac computer with wp blog
  When publishing paypal button only text shows, why not image

  I made sure all code was copied and pasted to editor

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  timethief · Member · Mar 13, 2011 at 5:24 pm

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  The only PayPal button we can use on wordpress.com is the unencrypted donation button and the instructions are found here. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ Are those the instructions you are using?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 13, 2011 at 5:25 pm

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  Also did you paste the code into the HTML editor? It will not work if you paste it into the Visual editor.

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  pprmint777 · Member · Mar 16, 2011 at 1:54 pm

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  Just to be sure–I can’t use PayPal to sell my book on wordpress.com?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2011 at 5:49 pm

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  @pprmint777
  If you have a free hosted wordpress.com blog then you can sell your book from your blog. However, wordpress.com blogs cannot be equiped for ecommerce transactions using encrypted codes for PayPal or shopping carts. We can only use contact forms and the code for unencrypted PayPal donation buttons. When members have difficulties with placing code on their blogs for PayPal in almost every case it’s because they are attempting to post code to encrypted PayPal services which we cannot use here as the software strips out the encrypted code.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/