Adding Paypal donate button to wordpress blogger blog


Adding a ‘Paypal Donate Button’ is one of many ways like PPC, Paid blogging, Link selling, Affiliate products selling bloggers use to make money from their blogs. There is no harm in asking your blog readers to donate some bucks in your paypal account if they really like the content of your blog and want to keep it going.
Table of contents
Why I need a paypal donation button
Adding a Paypal Donation Button
Add Donate button into Blogger Free Blogs
Add Paypal button into WordPress blogs
Adding a Paypal donate button to a website
Paypal icons

Why I need a paypal donation button

Adding a paypal icon on your website or blog is not a bad idea if you can provide better content and services to your website or blog readers by accepting some donations from them. You should do something special for those who give some bucks as donation to you like adding a paypal donation widget, giving something free may be some links or advertisements on your website. But we should avoid adding paypal donation widgets on our website if it’s new or is not popular in its niche as that will only show our greediness for money. And you should allow as small as $1 as donation on your website.

Adding a Paypal Donation Button

Sign into your Paypal account and if you don’t have, get a free paypal account here.
  1. Login into your Paypal account with your paypal E-mail address and password:
  2. Click on ‘Merchant Services’ Tab available in the Top Menu
  3. When you scroll down your window, you will see a ‘Donations’ link in the ‘PayPal Website Payments Standard’ heading Section.
  4. Clicking on the ‘Donate’ link will take you a form where you are asked to fill some information’s like Organization name/service, Donation ID (optional).
  5. After Filing the required information click on ‘Create Button’ link.
  6. Now you will see some HTML Code, copy it

Adding HTML code into Blogger free blogs:

  1. Sign in into your Blogger Blog and Click on the ‘Layout’ link in your dashboard
  2. Click ‘Add a Gadget’ link and select ‘HTML/JavaScript’ option
  3. Now paste the HTML code that you copied from your Paypal account and save it.
  4. Now open your blog and you will see the ‘Paypal Donate’ button in your blogspot blog sidebar. You can display Donate button wherever you want on your blog like blog Header, footer or its sidebar

Adding HTML code into WordPress blogs

  1. Login into your WordPress blog and go to its Dashboard
  2. Click Presentation –> Widgets
  3. Click on the content area in front of ‘Text 1’ widget
  4. Paste your HTML code in the content area available and save changes
  5. Open your WordPress blog and check donate button will be in your blog sidebar
This is how we can add Paypal donation button to a WordPress and blogger blog.

Adding a Paypal donate button to a website

And what you will do if you need to add this paypal widget to your website? What you will need is add the following code on any of your website page or within your website template where you want to display paypal donation icon:
<form name=”_xclick” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_xclick”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”user@yourdomain.com”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”Customer Service”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”amount” value=”1.00″>
<input type=”image” src=”http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”Make payments with PayPal – it’s fast, free and secure!”>
</form>

Paypal icons

Here are some paypal icons you can use as a donation symbol on your blogs and websites:
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