The following are brief instructions on how to successfully add a PayPal button to your Blogger or Typepad blog.
- Login to your account and create/compose a new post.
- Complete the rest of the post until the last thing you will do is place the PayPal button.
- Click the Edit HTML tab.
- Go to your PayPal Account in another window. Login and go to Merchant Services and choose the Buy Now button. Complete the details (such as which button to use, what price, Item Name/Description, and more). Then click Create Button Now. At that point you can Copy the HTML code.
- Come back to your blog post, in the HTML view, and Paste the code where you want it located on your blog. Do NOT go back into Compose Post view! This may alter the code and then the PayPal button looks incorrect. So, the key is to Save/Post your post immediately after pasting the code into the HTML code.
To sign up for PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=82JKFN6BLETJ2
To see a sample: http://heatherporto.blogspot.com/2008/07/upcoming-workshops-august-2008.html
Thanks for visiting!
Hi Jeremy!
To do a Donate button you basically follow the same except that under Merchant Services; instead of choosing you will choose Donate and go from there. But copying and pasting in the code into your blog is the same.
Heather :D
Posted by: Heather Wright-Porto | January 22, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Hi Jeremy!
Blogger does NOT handle formatting well for the PayPal buttons. Even if you Publish without Previewing, Blogger will now still throw in extra padding…so you have to modify the HTML code to remove line breaks and basically consolidate the lines of HTML code from PayPal (for the button).
Posted by: Heather Wright-Porto | January 22, 2012 at 07:18 PM
An informative blog! Come back to your blog post, in the HTML view, and Paste the code where you want it located on your blog. Do NOT go back into Compose Post view! This may alter the code and then the PayPal button looks incorrect. So, the key is to Save/Post your post immediately after pasting the code into the HTML code.
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Posted by: J. Gibson | November 28, 2009 at 08:07 PM
Hi Laura,
Yes..instead of choosing a Buy Now button, you would choose the Add to Cart button and use the same instructions.
Best wishes,
Heather :D
Posted by: Heather Wright-Porto | November 24, 2009 at 07:37 AM
Is the same process with the "Add To Cart" button as well?
Posted by: Laura Pinto-Nguyen | November 04, 2009 at 07:16 PM
Thank you thank you! I have spent the past two days trying to get the buttons to work on my blog and now they do!
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