Add a PayPal button to your self-hosted WordPress blog

PayPal makes accepting payments quite easy. If you’d like to add a PayPal donation button to the posts, pages or sidebar of your self-hosted WordPress blog, this video will show you how.

There are several PayPal requirements as you will need a PayPal premier or business account. The basic PayPal account will not support this function.

Video:Add a PayPal button to your self-hosted WordPress blog

Instructions

Login to your PayPal account
Select Merchant Services
Select Donations
Enter Name – Blog name, your name or your organization’s name. This text will display to your potential donors.
Select customization options for the PayPal button: logo size, display credit cards (Yes/No), default button or your own button image, currency type; fixed dollar amount of user supplied amount. You will also have advanced customization options to control the text that is displayed during the donation process
Click on the Create Button
You will see a Web version and an Email version. You will choose the non-obvious selection and use the code in the email tab (though, not quite yet)
Now open another browser tab or window and login to your WordPress blog
Open up a new or existing page or post
Switch to the HTML tab, not the visual editor
Head to the WordPress.com support page
Pick the button you like and copy the code as in
<img src=“https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif” alt=“” />
Paste in the code you just copied from the WordPress support page
Switch to the Visual Editor tab
Now return to the browser window or tab with PayPal page
Copy the code from the email tab
Now return to WordPress
Select the image and insert the code you just copied into the Link URL and click Insert
Save your page or post and you now have a PayPal donation button on your site

Wrap-Up

You can copy the HTML code from that page or post into a Text Widget or any other page or post – you don’t need to repeat the whole process again. Now – you just wait for your donations and hopefully you won’t have too wait too long!

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