Why are the Pay Pal Donate codes not working

  • Unknown's avatar
    cyprusonaplate · Member ·

    Hi I have been trying to put a PayPal Donate button on my blog and have been following your very helpful guidelines but none of the donate codes seem to work as they remain in text. I successfully managed the Buy Now button with no problems. Can you please help? Thanks.

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    honeysilvas · Member ·

    Hi,

    Are you trying to add it to a post or page or on a widget?

    If you are doing it in a post or page, you need to make sure that you are in the Text tab of your editor, not in the Visual tab.

    If in a widget, you need to use the Text Widget:
    http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

    Please read this for step by step instructions:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

    Let us know if you have more questions.

  • Unknown's avatar
    cyprusonaplate · Member ·

    Thanks for the reply but I had already followed your instructions set out on the support/paypal page. I had success in adding the Buy Now button to a page, no problems but when it came to adding the code for the button from WordPress into a text widget the code does not transform into an image check them out, it remained in code. I have now instead opted to make a separate page as the image shows up fine on there. Thanks for response but do check the text widget with the button code from
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ out and let me know.

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    honeysilvas · Member ·

    Hi,

    Which sidebar are you putting this widget on? Can you post the code you are using here?

    I tried this code on my test site and it works on the Main Sidebar as a Text widget.

    <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PK8C78ZCM54AU"><img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" alt="Donate Button with Credit Cards" /></a></p>

    Copy and paste this code into your Text Widget and see if it works.

    If it doesn’t, can you copy and paste here the code that you see that remains in text? You can use the “code” button above this text box to display the code properly here.

  • Unknown's avatar
    cyprusonaplate · Member ·

    Yes your code works thanks. But I have used my own button now
    I have been trying to post this code:-
    img src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif” alt=”Donate Button with Credit Cards” /
    into a text widget for my main sidebar. I have tried to copy it several times with the same result. Here is where I was posting it. https://androulaskitchen.wordpress.com/wp-admin/widgets.php

  • Unknown's avatar
    honeysilvas · Member ·

    I have been trying to post this code:-
    img src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif” alt=”Donate Button with Credit Cards” /
    into a text widget for my main sidebar.

    Did you mean you wanted to use this image instead?

    http://evasvillage.org/images/buttons/donate-button-up.gif

    If you did, here’s the code for that:

    <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PK8C78ZCM54AU"><img src="http://evasvillage.org/images/buttons/donate-button-up.gif" alt="Donate Button with Credit Cards" /></a></p>

    Let me know if that’s what you wanted to do.

  • Unknown's avatar
    cyprusonaplate · Member ·

    I have posted the image in the image box for the side bar and linked it to my ‘Donate’ page as I wanted to write something about why I’m asking for donations. but thanks for your replies very interesting.
    Kind Regards
    Sonia.

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    honeysilvas · Member ·

    You’re welcome! Let me know if you need help with anything else.

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