Upgrade PayPal Extension in Magento 1.7

If its an issue of PayPal express showing up when you dont want it to (because of both options enabled) and not being able to disable it specifically, then you can just display none on its class.

Open the template/checkout/onepage/payment/methods.phtml

Where it shows the <input> tag put inside

id="payment_<?php echo $_code ?>"

Then in css you can call the paypal method as something like

(#)payment_paypal_express {
display: none;
}

But dont use the (), it just wont let me use the id character in this text, but you know know what I mean.

I got this too. You're probably looking at this blog article, right? https://devblog.paypal.com/paypal-ssl-certificate-changes/

The translation is that they're going to use SSL certificates which have stronger encryption on them. All you need to do is make sure your server supports it. Which means - ask your hosting provider.

You actually shouldn't have to do anything in Magento itself. This is all server-level material. Magento itself doesn't actually do the encryption/decryption, it makes a call to the server which handles that.

To be 100% certain, call your hosting provider about this. Tell them that you got this email about paypal upgrading their SSL certs to SHA-256, and you want to make sure your server supports it.

Most likely, they'll tell you they upgraded months ago.