Add a PayPal button to your self-hosted WordPress blog

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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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Matt January 20, 2010 at 12:07 am

Awesome, thank you sir

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Colin February 13, 2011 at 6:22 am

Great – Thanks a lot!

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Tim-on web November 15, 2011 at 7:02 pm

Some features changed and PayPal re-design some of the old features. I like the way you describe it… Really it helps. Thanks!

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