Paypal Button In a Wordpress Post

How do you place a Paypal button in a Wordpress post or Blogger post for that matter?   After receiving an email from a reader stating that they do not have Paypal I realized that I was only catering to people with Paypal for my blog links promotion. Since I knew that Paypal allows credit card payments through their website buy it now button I knew this was the step I needed to take in order to resolve this issue. 

Really easy fix I thought and then I tried placing the Paypal buy it now button inside the post and everything looks alright, but when I clicked on the button only an error message displayed. You can effortlessly put the buy it now button code in the sidebar just fine, but then that has know relation to your post.  
 
 The Fix:  

<a href=”https:/paypal URL code”><img src=”https://paypal img code” /></a>

Login to Paypal click on; merchant services, buy buttons, enter data for item, choose your button, select no to encrypt.

Now you should see two sets of code: the HTML code for websites and Link for emails code.  To make the button work in Wordpress or Blogger post what you need is the image code from the first box and the URL code from the second.  Take both code parts and now combined them like the example above.  It’s that easy!

June 4, 2007 | posted in Wordpress 

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12 Responses to “Paypal Button In a Wordpress Post”

  1. DotNetNuke Consulting on June 8th, 2007

    Helpful tip, thanks

  2. Jason Neuman on June 8th, 2007

    Know problem good luck with adding the button to your future posts.

  3. Lori on July 1st, 2007

    Hey, if I want to place a button for wordpress, I log into merchant services, what is the information I need to enter?
    Thanks Lori

  4. rk shuq on July 21st, 2007

    click buy now button, then you enter your product title, then enter a catalog name or number that you make up (optional), then the price.

  5. rk shuq on July 21st, 2007

    Great Tip!. I used it!

    one thing I was curious about is if you can still use option fields with this fix. i.e. — add $1 postage for Canada and Mexico, add $2 for Europe

  6. Jason Neuman on July 21st, 2007

    Yes just enter the data you want but I’m unsure on the options field since I have never looked into it.

  7. Love Shayar on August 30th, 2007

    Great ! Tips

    Thanks Jason Neuman Your post helped me ! , i was brainstroming with it since last 3 days

    Cheers !!!!

  8. Life is Colourful on December 1st, 2007

    Hey, this is useful - I can use it for my blog. I just came across this post from my technorati feed page.

  9. Unkle on January 4th, 2008

    I tried, but we have some limits from paypal, too bad :(

  10. Stephanie on January 30th, 2008

    Thank you so much for this info!!! Even the person who did my site for me couldn’t offer a solution. You don’t know how much heartache you saved me from! Worked like a charm.

  11. Ayerthon on March 12th, 2008

    WOw, Dude I was searching for 4 hours on this Fix Thank you so much :)

    Finally hahah Thanks.

  12. Big Oak SEO Company on March 12th, 2008

    I have been frustrated with this issue as well. Thanks for the tip. I’m sure this will help more people than you realize.

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