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Can i use PayPal donation buttons on my non-profit blog?

  1. metroeriemealsonwheels
    Member

    I'm trying to add PayPal buttons to allow donors to donate to our nonprofit organization. The HTML I am adding works until I update the changes. The button disappears on the web page and the HTML language does totally disappear but morphs into something less than what it was:

    Was before Update:
    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"><input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="PFFYUD7KY23LS"><input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_SM.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"></form>

    Now after Update:
    <img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />

    Can you help? Thanks!

    Terry

    The blog I need help with is mealsonwheelserie.org.

  2. timethief
    Member

    The instructions for unencrypted PayPal donation button we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs are found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

  3. micahcooksey
    Member

    Hello,

    As per this article, form and input tags are not on the list of allowed HTML tags.

    That's why they're being stripped out when you update the widget.

  4. micahcooksey
    Member

    Thanks timethief, I didn't see that article! Should have looked.

  5. timethief
    Member

    I also note that the free hosted WordPress.com blog linked to your username does not have any content aside from a custom header. Is that the blog in question or not?

  6. timethief
    Member

    @metroeriemealsonwheels
    The question I asked immediately above was directed to you.

    ~~micah

  7. metroeriemealsonwheels
    Member

    the blog in question is mealsonwheelserie.org, The "metroeriemealsonwheels" name i show I first opened the account. Actually, I would prefer to have my main site AND my username be the same: mealsonwheelserie I'm not sure how to do this.

  8. timethief
    Member

    Thanks for providing the URL for http://mealsonwheelserie.org/ What I posted above re: an unencrypted PayPal donation button does apply to that blog.

  9. timethief
    Member

    Actually, I would prefer to have my main site AND my username be the same: mealsonwheelserie I'm not sure how to do this.

    Please see here > change username

  10. grandpadavid
    Member

    I have a similar problem as there is no option on PayPal to create an email style button as shown in the instructions. In fact the pages in the instructions bear no resemblance at all to what I see after the Merchant Services part.

    Is this because it is paypal.com/ie perhaps?

    I only have the option to create a donate button.

  11. airodyssey
    Member

    @grandpadavid: That's exactly the only button you can use at WordPress.com: donate. Do you not see a Website and an Email tab when you select a donate button there?

  12. grandpadavid
    Member

    Hi, yes the screens are completely different for me to the ones shown in the help, but having got put off at first I went on through and the selection for web or email is actually 4 sections further on! Problem solved eventually!

    If anyone can't see the email part just keep going. It is a tabbed choice at the end AFTER you have entered everything else.

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