Adding PayPal Donate Button – How to Add to Free WordPress Blog

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I am looking to add a PayPal donate button on my free wordpress.com blog. I am not sure whether –

This is possible and allowable.
If it is allowable what do I need to do to make it workable and any tips that people would like to share.

Best Answer

Yes, PayPal provides information on how to create a donate button on this page.

Short summary:

Login to your PayPal account and go to the PayPal button creation page
Enter the payment details for your organization
Set up the look and feel of the button (optional)
Set the currency and how donators can pay (optional)
Associate email address with transaction instead of merchant id (optional)

Prerequisite: Assumes you have a PayPal Business or Premier Account

Wikihow also has a short guide on setting up a donation button.

Related Solutions

PayPal – How to Make a Donate Button Default to an Amount

Using this tutorial I made a textbox where the user is able to specify the amount they want to pay on a form I have complete control over, before I send them to a PayPal webpage to complete the transaction.

My gemfile:

gem 'paypal-sdk-adaptivepayments'

My Ruby payment code

  p = PayPalPayer.new
  amt = @buyamount.to_f
  trackingId = SecureRandom.uuid
  senderEmail = 'senderemail@emailaddress.com'
  receiverEmail = 'receiveremail@emailaddress.com'
  url = 'http://redirectotohereafterpaymentcomplets'
  pay = p.pay(senderEmail, receiverEmail, amt, url, trackingId)
  redirect pay[:url] //this takes the user to a page to complete the payment

WordPress.com – How to Hide a Page from the Navigation Menu

There is a rather lengthy explanation on the wordpress.com support page regarding custom menus, so I will just post the link to it: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

You should find the required info there.

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PayPal – How to Make a Donate Button Default to an Amount

WordPress.com – How to Hide a Page from the Navigation Menu

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