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Donation Contest Widget is a plugin which allows you to add donation contest box to any widgetized area of your website. You can get donations via PayPal.
Front End
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<li>The widget can be easily inserted into any widgetized area of website like any standard WordPress widget (drag and drop).</li>
<li>Once added users can see donation contest box. This box displays three group of donors in rotating mode. The first group is the TOP X (X is defined in WordPress admin area) donors for the last 30 days starting from now. The second group is the TOP X donors for last year starting from now. And third group displays TOP X donors for all the time.</li>
<li>User can click “Donate” button and make donation. Once donation done, user’s name will be stored in database and if donated amount is high enough his/her name appears in TOP X donors list. You can try it on this page: <a href="http://www.icprojects.net/donation-contest-widget.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Donation Contest Widget</a>.</li>
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Back end
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<li>The plugin is installed like any other standard WordPress plugin.</li>
<li>Once installed, it will create a configuration page in the admin section where the admin can do required setting such as PayPal ID, currency, “thank you” message, number of TOP X donors to be displayed, custom “donate” button, widget stylesheet etc.</li>
<li>The plugin also adds new widget into widgets list. So you can easily drag it and drop into any widget area.</li>
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Plugin requires PHP version 5 or higher installed on your server.
For more details please visit <a href="http://www.icprojects.net/donation-contest-widget.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Donation Contest Widget page</a>.

Donation Contest Widget

Donation Contest Widget is a plugin which allows you to add donation contest box to any widgetized area of your website.

Coen Jacobs

Makes it easy to display a link to your own PayPal donation page. Includes options to set a fixed amount and select your own currency.
It adds a simple to use a [paypal] shortcode with a couple of options:
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<li>text, the linking text</li>
<li>email, the email address corresponding to your PayPal account</li>
<li>amount, set a fixed amount of money in the donation form</li>
<li>currency, the currency you would like to recieve donations in</li>
<li>title, a small title that will be added to your donation</li>
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Example usage of the plugin:
<pre><code>[paypal text="Do you like this plugin? Please reward it with a little donation." email="paypal@coenjacobs.net" title="Donation for Paypal Donation Shortcode plugin" currency="USD"/]
</code></pre>
Read more about this plugin on the <a href="http://coenjacobs.net/wordpress/plugins/paypal-donation-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal Donation Shortcode plugin</a> page.

Paypal Donation Shortcode

Makes it easy to display a link to your own PayPal donation page. Includes options to set a fixed amount and select your own currency.

Donation Contest Widget vs Paypal Donation Shortcode