Putting up Paypal Donate button

chrisdeacon02 · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 5:57 am
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I tried your Paypal Donate button generation but its still not showing on my wordpress site. I’m obviously doing something wrong, but what?
christinedeacon.wordpress.com
kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 26, 2013 at 6:52 pm
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Hi there – could you please provide a link to the page or post where you tried to add the donation button so I can have a look? Thanks.
chrisdeacon02 · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 11:11 pm
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Thank you for replying. I have got a bit further with it on: My other books
blog but it doesn’t seem to be working I have put a link in LINKS . I’ve also directed traffic to it from VOX starting April 3rd. Need to have it operational.
chrisdeacon02 · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 11:14 pm
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http://christinedeacon.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3&action=edit
chrisdeacon02 · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 11:23 pm
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By the way : Are you a Happster? So am I.
raincoaster · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 11:27 pm
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That’s an admin edit page and we can’t see that. Is there a published page or post with the code in it?

Paste the code here between backticks and we can analyze it for you. Also, do you have a Merchant account, not just a personal one?
verazambonelli · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 12:04 am
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<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post” target=”_top”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_s-xclick”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”hosted_button_id” value=”YYZS5TQHEQL4Y”>
<input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.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>
verazambonelli · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 12:07 am
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ops, sorry, pasted something I could not delete. I am trying to add a paypal donation button and ran in the same problem described above by chrisdeacom02. thanks!
raincoaster · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 1:06 am
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1) That’s not the correct code for WordPress.com. See these instructions and ONLY these instructions: http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
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2) ignore the spammer.
verazambonelli · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 1:12 am
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raincoaster thanks!!! checking it out, let’s see!
kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 28, 2013 at 1:27 pm
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Hi there – in both of your examples, you’re attempting to use PayPal code which includes form tags. Form tags are are not permitted on WordPress.com and will be stripped out. You can read more about the types of code that are permitted on WordPress.com.

As raincoaster points out, our instructions for adding a PayPal donation button are detailed here. If you follow them step by step, the button should work.

Just let me know if you need further help.
kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 28, 2013 at 1:29 pm
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Also – if you’d like to add a product button instead of a donation button, I’ve provided instructions and screenshots here.

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