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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Awesome, thank you sir
Great – Thanks a lot!
Some features changed and PayPal re-design some of the old features. I like the way you describe it… Really it helps. Thanks!