how to install a paypal donation button in wordpress

How to Install a PayPal Donation Button in

WordpressCreated : March 2017

www.ilovesimplicity.com

Log in to your Paypal account at www.paypal.com.


Enter your email address and password and press log in.


Your summary page looks like this.


Scroll down to the “Selling Tools”.


This is where the Selling Tools is located.


Hover over the “seller preferences”.


Under “selling online” menu, you will see “PayPal buttons”.


Click on the “update” button.


Click on the “create new button” found on the right side of the page.


You will be taken to the Create PayPal payment button page.


Hover over the Choose a button type.


Choose “Donations”.


Type in your organization name/service.


Customize the donation button.


Choose the currency.


You can choose whatever currency you prefer.


And lastly, choose how you want to accept the donations. You can either chose your merchant’s ID or your email address.

And then press the “create button”.


You will be taken to this page.


You have just created your customized button.


The next thing you will do is to put the button in to your website….like this.


You can put it in your website’s menu like this….


And in a page like this….


And in a blog post like this….


In order to do that, you have to copy the code of the button and paste it in your website.


Choose website…


Click on the code to select it.


Then press the Select Code button to copy the code.


Log in to your website


Choose which ever you want to put your donation button.


You should paste it using an HTML editor.


And viola!!! You’ve got a PayPal Donation Button.


Thank you for reading.


I hope you find this tutorial helpful.


For more tutorials, please visit the website.


Business