How to add a Paypal Donate Button in WordPress?

Are you wondering how to add a PayPal Donate Button in WordPress? This article will give you the easiest methods to handle this matter.

Why should you add a Paypal Donate Button to your WordPress site?

If you are running websites related to Non-profit, NGO, business, Shool, charity, or another website, it is certain that sometimes you will need to ask for donations to grow and maintain a non-profit organization or fundraising. Therefore, it is necessary for you to add a Paypal Donate Button to your site.

In addition, when your website has a large audience across the world, adding a donate button to your website will give the international potential contributors, donors the opportunity to contribute to the implementation of that charitable program or campaign. Especially, they can make donations any time and right at their home without moving.

How to add a Paypal Donate Button in WordPress?

Nowadays, there are numerous ways that help you include a Paypal Donate Button in WordPress without effort. However, in today’s tutorial, we will give you a step-by-step guide by using the most prevalent methods including:

• Adding a Donate button by using coding
• Using WordPress Donation Plugins to add a Paypal Donate button.

Solutions

Method 1: Add a Donate Button via Paypal

One of the biggest benefits of this method is that you don’t need to install any extra plugins. However, you need to ensure that you have created a PayPal account before, or now you can visit the Paypal.com website to create a new account.

After log in to your Paypal account, click on the Pay & Get Paid pages. Here you can see a list of features, simply click on the PayPal Buttons option.

Keep clicking on the Donate button on the next page.

To create your Donate button, you can choose your Country/ Region and Language by clicking on the arrow symbol. And then click on the Continue button.

On the next page, you optionally choose to display your organization’s logo or not. In addition, you can add your purpose for donation campaigns. And then keep clicking on the continue button.

 

Here, you can set the currency for donation amounts. In addition, there are some questions, you can read and select the suitable option depending on your purpose.

On the final page, you can optionally set up for each option by clicking on the arrow symbol. Otherwise, quickly click on the Finish and Get Code button.

This brings you to the next page, here scroll down the screen, you will see a code snippet in the Donate Button section. Quickly copy this code snippet to the clipboard.

Now, visit your post/page that you want to add a Paypal Donate button, search and add the Custom HTML block to your post/page.

Let’s paste the code snippet that you copied before to the given space.

After pasting the code snippet, you can click on the Preview button to view your Paypal Donate button appearance directly while editing. And then click on the Publish/ Update button to save your changes.

Method 2: Using the Paypal Donations plugin

PayPal Donations is one of the remarkable WordPress Donation plugins in the market nowadays. This plugin allows you to add a PayPal donate button to your WordPress site by using a shortcode. In addition, you can optionally choose from available donate button styles or create your own button. Now, let’s track the following steps.

Stage 1: Install and activate the plugin

Just like other plugins, first of all, you need to visit Plugins > Add New and then enter the plugin’s name at the search bar. Simply click on the Install Now button and activate it.

Stage 2: Create a Paypal Donate Button

Now, navigate to Settings > Paypal Donations page. In the General tab, firstly you need to fill up your Paypal Email address-this is the email address that you use to log in to Paypal. The default Donation currency is US Dollars. If you want to change into other currencies, just click on the arrow symbol to choose from the drop-down menu.

In addition, you can generate a thank you page and set this page as the Return Page. It will be displayed to send the thank you message after the donators made donations to your charity.

In the default section, you can optionally add the default amount, purpose, reference for your donation.

Next, you can choose your favorite PayPal Button style. If you want to create your own button, you need to enter a URL for a custom button image.

Moreover, the default country and Language is United States- English, you can change into other countries and languages by clicking on the arrow symbol.

Don’t forget to click on the “Save Changes” button.

Stage 3: Add a PayPal Donate button to your WordPress site.

This plugin enables you to display a Paypal Donate button by using a shortcode to paste any positions on your website.

If you are using the Classic Editor, you can paste the following shortcode to any area on your post/page that you want to add a Donate button

[paypal-donation]

Whether you are using the Block editor, you need to edit a post/page that you want to display a donate button or start with a new post/page. Then, click on the “+” symbol and choose the shortcode block.

Now, let’s add a shortcode to the given space and then click on the Publish or Update button to store your changes.

This is how it looks on your website.

Especially, this plugin also allows you to add a donate button to the sidebar or footer as well. Firstly, visit Appearance > Widgets, enter the Paypal Donations on the search bar and then click on it.

You can fill up the title and the description for your Paypal Donations. Don’t forget to click on the Update button.

Here is the Donate button displaying in our website’s sidebar.

Wrap up

We have just demonstrated the easiest ways to help you add a PayPal Donate button in WordPress with ease. Hopefully, through this tutorial, you can display a donate button in WordPress by yourself. If you have any queries about the covered methods, let us know by leaving a comment below.

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