Hinzufügen einer PayPal-Spendenschaltfläche in WordPress (3 Methoden)

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1. Jiří Vaněk

   I have the option to donate on the website using the elementor button. There is a button directly for paypal. At the same time, I also have WP Forms in the full version. Is it ok if I do Paypal using WP Forms? The button in Elementor is basically just a classic button with a url that leads to the possibility of paying by Paypal directly to my account.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Yes, you are not required to use a specific method and if you wanted to you could even use multiple methods for different sections if you wanted.

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2. varun

   all rubbish info doesnt work at all

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Apologies if it is not working for you, you may want to reach out to the plugin’s support with whatever error you are running into for them to take a look at it. We will also take a look at our article

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3. Robert

   My blog is on Wordpress.com so I attempted to follow your instructions to manually add a PayPal button. Your instructions state:

   „Start by logging in to your PayPal account, and click on the Tools menu item“

   I cannot find the Tools menu item on PayPal. Please can you advise.

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4. Vanessa

   Thanks for all this info. I am not clear if I need a paid version of wordpress.org if I want to add a donations button. I probably won’t be selling anything, just hope for a few donations. Thanks for your help

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Hi Vanessa,

     Please see our comparison of WordPress.org vs WordPress.com. WordPress.org itself is free but you will need to pay for hosting and domain name. Please see our guide on how to start a website for step by step instructions.

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     • Vanessa

       I have set up a wordpress.org blog by following your very clear instructions….thank you very much!! I have gone to widgets to install a paypal donations button but there does not seem to be one there to choose. Have I made a mistake?? I chose the cheapest bluehost option. Have I done something wrong?

       Also, just so you know…..when I got nearly to the end of the bluehost procedure, having followed your link to get there, intending that you got the commission for my purchase, there was another pop-up offer, which offered even more discount. I clicked on this, so I hope you have not lost the commission. If so, it is a bit of a dirty trick, which may have robbed you of your commission. I hope not. Thanks for your great advice.

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5. martha rees

   I like the idea of the video, but my version of wordpress doesn’t let me install plugins, and so that won’t work. When I tried with the email link, I got the message that ‚payment did not go through‘. So I couldn’t put the button or a link on the page. Thanks

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6. Mark Bologna

   This was perfect – exactly what I needed to add a donate button to the podcast webpage. Thanks!

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7. Gandire

   I can create the button image, but nothing happens when I click. I’m suspecting it wasn’t made clickable?

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   • Haitham Alnaqeb

     Did you use a plugin to create the click button? or did you copy it from PayPal itself? what is the source of the code did you use?

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8. Apata

   Hello please engineer Sayed,
   I am worried as to how could I know or find the payment gateway that support my country Nigeria. I am still searching, but I have not found one.
   Please help me and recommend one to me.
   Thanks.

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   • Haitham Alnaqeb

     You may want to try Google Checkout. They are supporting Nigeria.

     Good luck.

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9. Mandy

   I have been beating my head up against a brick wall for HOURS trying to fix the oversized, pixelated donate button in my wordpress site. I finally came across this article and it was just the fix!!!!! Thank you!!!

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10. Michelle H

    I tried this and it is not working. It keeps coming up as „no follow“

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11. Ye Thu

    This is excellent and worked well. Thank you very much for your post. It was a great help.

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12. jof

    There is no „PayPal Donations“ button in my self hosted WordPress.

    Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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13. Aims

    Thanks for this post! It’s been most helpful. But how do you create code for the image when you personalise it? I have an image , now what?!

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14. Paul Mozina

    I got the PayPal button to work on a post, np, thanks to you. Now, how do I add the PayPal button to my main sidebar?

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    • Paul Mozina

      Got it! Use a Text Widget.

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      • Michelle

        When I tried adding it in a text widget it didn’t work. How did you get yours to work?

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15. Jen Maffett

    I pasted the code from Paypal into my Wordpress page, post and project page and in each instance it appears when I switch back to Visual, but then when I publish the code gets stripped out and nothing appears on the actual page. When I go back to the editor the code has been erased or truncated. Is there something I can do to make it „stick“?

    I see that this happened to others in the comment string, but I didn’t see a solution mentioned.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Basically you just need the link from the PayPal under the Email section. This is a plain URL and the code just adds the link to a donate button image. You can download the donate button image from PayPal website and upload it in post editor. Right click on it and link it to your PayPal email URL.

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    • Leon Zak

      Having WP mess with the code after pasting has been a problem for me also. I finally found an acceptable way that so far seems to work.

      I found putting the PayPal code in a table is working for me. I can go back and forth from visual to text and the code stays the same. I put in table tags, then for my case I put in two rows with one column (td tag) in each. In the first row I’ve put some text for the what the button payment is for and then I put the PayPal code in the 2nd row.

      The only thing I notice is a light border shows up around the table. Putting the border = 0 in the table doesn’t remove it. I think the border is getting introduced elsewhere (I“m using Elegant Themes DIVI). I don’t mind the thin border in this application so I haven’t done much work trying to find how to remove it.

      To see what it looks like – the page is one of my clients at (take the spaces out, I didn’t want this to get tagged as spam)
      Hope this helps someone with the same problem.

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16. Patel jignesh

    I found this one is best suitable plugin for paypal donation

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17. Lucy Barret

    This post is pretty handy for me as I was about to add PayPal buttons on my clients site. Thansk…

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18. Wll

    Make sure to watch that you put the URL within the “ “ brackets and hit refresh button on your site, worked fine for me

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19. D.

    Hello, I visited paypal site today and noticed that it said to only use the donation button for a fundraising cause. It said to chose another option if you are not raising money for a cause. So are we no longer able to use donate buttons on our blogs if it is not for a cause? I was hoping to raise money to help finance my blog.

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    • Editorial Staff

      You can definitely use the donate button as several folks are using it.

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      • Dorothy Reedy

        I tried this (I have a mac) and it didn’t work at all; instead of a button I just have a really long bunch of text.

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20. leoo

    the problem is that I am not seeing PayPal Donation Button , only other buttons like , buy , add card , subrscribe etc … donation isn’t :S please help me

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21. Shara

    Hello. I have followed your instructions for adding the donate button to my side bar but it is not activated. When I click on the button nothing happens. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you so much!

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22. Sagar P

    So can the people who don’t use Paypal would also be able to donate right?

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23. Tech Punk

    Thank you for your help. It works great.

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24. Tessa Rathsack

    I know this is a super old post, but I just wanted to take a sec to thank you! I’ve been driving myself crazy trying to figure this simple thing out. I kept trying to copy/paste the „website“ code into the widget, which obviously didn’t work. Thanks again!

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25. Ms. Kisha

    I added the ‚donate‘ button to a page on my site but it is not displaying correctly. It is huge and extremely pixelated. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thank you!

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26. Marcus

    So, I want to add a „donate“ button to my blog so that I may expand later and use the money to buy vB 5 or something of the kind.
    However, PayPal only allows non-profit organizations to use their donate feature from what I have seen.
    How do I solve this?
    Thanks in advance.

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    • Sam

      This may be a very old post but it’s still getting traffic so I thought I’d answer this. I also believed donate buttons were only for charities but that’s apparently not true. You can read more about it here:

      They do take a cut but I’m wondering what happens if you choose not to use the word „donate“ and instead add the word near the regular icon? I just find it absurd that everyone wants a cut of what you’re attempting to get fundraising for.

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27. Rich Pickens

    Thanks, the button shows up and works but there is some extra code showing either side of it. I replaced the code in blue in this string:

    for the 2 URL bits but didn’t know what I am supposed to put for the „_blank‘ del and „nofollow“ bits…I am guessing this is the issue the extra code is „“ after it…

    Thanks in advance for your help!

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Rich Pickens, you only need to enter your email URL and don’t change any thing else.

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28. Rey

    Hi there.. I’m trying to use my custom Donate button and replacing the default PayPal button, for some reason it’s not displaying correctly, the border appear but I have specified border=“0″. Also the image is shrink though I used width=“value“ and height=“value“. Hope you can help, thanks much.

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29. soniya

    i want to add paypal after login the user
    how can i add this
    plz help me
    i have text tyep member then opn a login page afetr login opn payapal process page
    how is it possible

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You might need to create a custom page template for the page with the paypal donation button. In the custom page template you can put conditional tags to check a user’s logged in status and show them a paypal button, like this:

       <?php
      if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
          echo 'your paypal button code here';
      } else {
          echo 'Please sign in to see the Payment options';
      }
      ?> 
      

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30. Kristin

    Once my Donate button on my WordPress sidebar takes me to the PayPal donation page, my email address shows up as the default email in the „Log In To PayPal“ box. Is there any way to leave the email box blank instead? I would prefer that my email address not show up.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      you probably need to upgrade your paypal account to a business account.

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31. Sabine

    So easy and straightforward with your step by step guide! Thanks.

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32. vivian

    For some reason i only see 3 options under {choose a button type}: 1.shopping cart, 2.buy now, and 3.subscription? I don’t see donation btn. Are they the same thing?

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    • vivian

      I just figured out paypal has different options for different countries. However, I have another question, How do you really use „Use my secure merchant account ID“ to protect email address? Under „Merchant account IDs “ I chose this option „Use my secure merchant account ID“ instead of „Use my primary email address xxxxx“ for security purpose. After I Copy/paste the code and test out the donate btn, it took me to „pay with paypal page“, but i see my email displayed „huge“ on the top left corner. I see some blogs have their logo display there instead of email address. How do I do that? I really don’t want junk mails. Thank you!!

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33. Beate Smock

    Very good and THAN the button appears and it doesn’t work.

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    • Editorial Staff

      What doesn’t work in the button? It doesn’t open a donation link or what. Can you please elaborate a bit more, so we can help.

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34. Athman

    Thank you so much. This has really helped me.

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35. T.Seekins

    Thank you so much!

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36. Nizam Khan

    Wow! This is awesome and very useful info. It is easy to follow with this step by step process. Thanks a lot for sharing and tweeted

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37. Delany Martinez

    Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was tearing my hair out before I had the good sense to Google how to get the button up there. You guys rock!

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      Glad we were able to help Delany.

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38. Valerie

    Hi! Thanks so much for this! Do you know how to center it in the sidebar?

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    • Editorial Staff

      You would have to use CSS for the div and have it aligned center.

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39. Dan Taylor

    You are the bomb. Just posted a Donate button in my wordpress sidebar, your tip worked the first time. Thanks a lot man, good looks.
    Half Green Records

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40. Jennifer

    Hi,
    I’m trying to implement a donation code on my wordpress blog. When I press save after pasting the code into the text widget, the code instantly shortens and then nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong? Please help!

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    • Editorial Staff

      The text widget is not suppose to shorten anything. Are you using the sidebar text widget? This could be an issue with a plugin.

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41. Stephen

    The „Donate“ button is only to be used by charities and non-profit corporations. If you do other wise, PayPal will freeze your account. See their rules.

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    • Editorial Staff

      I suppose if that is true, then all the plugin developers with donate button should get their accounts banned.
      -Syed

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42. Madison

    Hi, I am having a problem with the code above. The code where you can post it on a page or post. I was trying to post my code on a page, and the image shows up,but it is not functioning. The image is the only thing that shows up the button does not work I copied the code and tried to link them together,but nothing is working. Am I doing the code right? Could I send you my code or something and maybe you or someone can fix it?

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    • Editorial Staff

      If you are just pasting the image code, then it would just show the image. You have to combine the image code and the link code.

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      • Thor

        Thank you, it wasn’t easy for me but I finally got it! Phew!

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43. Dave Stevens

    The above code works. However, I am having a problem with using the PayPal return URL under the advance section. I have created a WP page to return with a thank you message. However, the PayPal return is sending the user back to the home page of the WP site. It has replace my http://www.kingsportsavealife.com/?page_id=62 with a return link code for the PayPal page that indicated that the donation has been made. Any idea how to get PayPal to send to the WP page that I want to show? Thanks

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    • Editorial Staff

      Consider changing your permalink (url) structure.

      https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/seo-friendly-url-structure-for-wordpress/

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44. Marno

    Thanks!  Worked great.

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45. intellexity

    this is a great post – seriously it was frustrating me to the extent where i was about to pack in Wordpress – thanks for the information!

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46. LoveNevaeh

    Hi, I am having trouble with this!! Please can someone help!!!

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47. Bet

    I know you are mostly geared for bloggers, and this article focuses on donations for support. But I run a WP website for my business. What would be the best way for me to put a PayPal button on my site that would let my clients pay their invoices from me? Those might be all kinds of different amounts– how can the client enter the exact amount of their bill? I don’t see any option in PayPal for the user to enter an amount except in a „donation“ button, and these are definitely not donations!

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48. Paulo

    Thank you for this, I’d been meaning to add a donate button to my site for a while. Have it done now in less than 5 minutes. Cheers!

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