Adding a PayPal button to your WordPress.com blog
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February 13, 2009
If you’d like to add a PayPal donations button to your WordPress.com blog, this short tutorial will show you how
There’s also a different version of the video for self-hosted WordPress bloggers.
You can access the PayPal graphics mentioned in the video from this page of the WordPress.com support site
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February 14, 2009 at 3:26 am |
Poor me. I couldn’t install your software.
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February 14, 2009 at 5:28 am |
WordPress.tv is the Best
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February 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm |
GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR MONEY
nice feature btw
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February 14, 2009 at 11:45 pm |
It’s kinda hard to understand what it says
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February 18, 2009 at 2:20 am |
Where are the captions?
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February 18, 2009 at 2:48 am |
Since this wordpress.tv launched only recently, more complex features such as closed-captioning are not yet available. We’re working on it!
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February 18, 2009 at 5:38 pm |
This is cool. It reminds me of shareware for a donation.
Some people will pay for quality journalism or entertaining blogging. While others will get to enjoy free publications by those who “blog” for the love of it.
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February 18, 2009 at 10:15 pm |
HI, Do you have some videos or information, in spanish language, because is more easier to me to apply with success?
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February 19, 2009 at 5:40 am |
We’re starting to get some spanish language submissions, so stay tuned. Until then, you could check out the Spanish Codex
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February 19, 2009 at 4:44 am |
Wow..this is nice man..I love it
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February 19, 2009 at 7:57 am |
waaaaaaaaaw nice nice
i love it
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February 20, 2009 at 2:45 am |
Good video – sorry – BUT > why so blurry and fuzzy??? It’s hurting my eyes to try and see the detail which isn’t there… this would be GREAT if the video was SHARP like it should be.
SHARPEN the videos and you’ve got a winner… oh and I do a lot of training videos myself… I know you can reduce the size and still keep the quality high.
Just a friendly niggle :’>
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February 20, 2009 at 5:26 am |
Mike – I’d recommend pressing the HD button, that should solve the problem. By standard the videos are lower-res to cater for people with less speedy connections (and agreed, a little fuzzy – that would be FFMPEG’s work). The videos are all mastered and uploaded at 1280×720 baseline HD, and with the HD button (top right of the player) on, I can watch them full-screen on a 30″ cinema display. Let me know if that doesn’t do it for you.
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February 22, 2009 at 3:13 am |
I love it! Do you have some info, in polish language?
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February 22, 2009 at 1:04 pm |
Thanks. We don’t have any Polish language content at the moment, but we’d certainly welcome it 🙂
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February 22, 2009 at 7:58 pm |
Thanks Michael. I had no idea thgere was an HD version. I do apprecuiate it’s there but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a fuzzy version… I think slow modem users would prefer a “smaller” version but hey – I do appreciate the hd button – it is much better!
Hey – do you know if yuo can do a paypal payment button and have some ind of tracking variable at the end? A sub id like clickbank has??? That would help enable tracking of keywords and such.
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February 23, 2009 at 6:40 am |
Sounds feasible – I’d suggest checking out the various PayPal plugins in the plugins directory and having a scan through the forums on this topic. The combined might of the forums trumps what I know any day.
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February 25, 2009 at 12:05 am |
This isn’t a feature! It’s just a how-to on how to use PayPal.…Didn’t find it very helpful.
I much would prefer a PayPal shortcode.
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February 25, 2009 at 12:32 am |
Thanks for the feedback and sorry to hear that didn’t do it for you. How-Tos are what we do around these parts. I’d recommend putting in a feature request at the WordPress.com forums if you aren’t happy with the way things work at the moment.
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April 11, 2009 at 5:08 pm |
Paypals’ bilingual/multilingual support and configuration is non existent.
They would make serious bank if they fixed that. They gotta catch up with the times and drop the xenophobia.
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October 1, 2009 at 10:56 am |
nice information, thank you
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November 23, 2009 at 11:28 am |
Can somenone tell which plugin wordpress.tv use to show this videos.
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November 24, 2009 at 1:35 am |
WordPress.tv uses VideoPress, which is an available upgrade for WordPress.com and can be used in tandem with a plugin for self-hosted WordPress.
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January 13, 2010 at 8:20 pm |
Love this – just what I need! I’d better trot off and get a merchant account now … I wonder, did the guy who complained about fuzziness actually start the vid? It only appears fuzzy before you start it because the title’s superimposed. Just a thought. Thanks for the help, it’s duly bookmarked and now I can work my way through at my leisure. Fantastic!
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February 4, 2010 at 6:40 pm |
Hey there. It allows me to access this button-making feature without a merchant account (I just have a standard account). Curious if PayPal changed its rules or if a Merchant account was never really necessary for accepting donations.
Also, whoa. I’d been trying to insert my own buttons into my page for a couple days. Didn’t realize it was so complex.
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April 20, 2010 at 4:53 pm |
This and all other advice I can find only applies to Donations. What about Buy Now buttons??? There’s no email code generated when you create a Buy Now button, only Web code so you can’t use it with WordPress.
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April 22, 2010 at 4:17 am |
If there’s no email code that uses plain HTML, you won’t be able to add it, I’m afraid.
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August 11, 2010 at 8:06 am |
Wow, excellent tutorial. I haven’t done and put my PayPal button yet but plan to do it in the near future.
I liked the various types of PayPal buttons available on the support PP WordPress website:)
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December 23, 2010 at 7:05 am |
I want to open a paypal account in Bangladesh. But I dont know how to. Anyone help me?
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January 3, 2011 at 1:54 pm |
Good work.The information you provided worked for me too.I wish you success.Thanx
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January 9, 2011 at 10:51 pm |
I have been using Paypal for years now and would be more than happy to add this to my blog! HTML format is a great way to use it since it can be added very easily. Thank you very much!
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February 17, 2011 at 11:55 pm |
i really like that. thanks for sharing 🙂
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March 8, 2011 at 11:37 pm |
GOD BLESS YOU! I thought the age of this video may make it invalid info, but everything worked beautifully!
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March 26, 2011 at 5:55 pm |
THIS WAS INCREDIBLY HELPFUL!!!!! THANK YOU SO SO VERY MUCH!!!!!
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May 14, 2011 at 8:34 pm |
Very helpful and i really like the HD option to view.
i hope people see the beauty in this simple addition to their WordPress site(s)…
namaste
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June 5, 2011 at 11:44 pm |
very informative thank you…
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September 22, 2011 at 5:31 pm |
It works only in the widget sidebar or in the body place of a post or page of wordpress?
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October 27, 2011 at 4:41 am |
Thanks Mike,you’r a great teacher
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January 6, 2012 at 4:45 am |
Awesome thank you!!!
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January 6, 2012 at 8:18 am |
I’ve found out one thing never to do and that is use “donate” button if you are not an “official” charity. They gave me all kinds of grief over that even though we are a church.
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December 7, 2012 at 10:28 pm |
Is it true that you can’t add a “Buy Now” button to your wordpress.com site because WP doesn’t support e-commerce? And also, as Brian says, that you can only add a “Donate” button if you are an official non-profit?
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