ichurakov

<p>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.</p>
<p>Front End</p>
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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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<p>Back end</p>
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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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<p>Plugin requires PHP version 5 or higher installed on your server.</p>
<p>For more details please visit <a href="http://www.icprojects.net/donation-contest-widget.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Donation Contest Widget page</a>.</p>


Donation Contest Widget

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

tstachl

<p>Another small and beautiful plugin. It adds a fully customizable PayPal button<br />
to the posts. The only thing you have to do is put [donate] in your post or<br />
 in your theme. Via the options panel it<br />
is fully customizable.</p>
<p>If you want special settings in one post or somewhere else you can set some<br />
attributes. For example:</p>
<h4>Updates</h4>
<p>27.09.2009</p>
<p>Page Style has been added.</p>
<h4>Attributes to customize</h4>
<p>email       = Your PayPal Account<br />
title       = The title of the page where you redirect your donators<br />
return_url  = The URL where the donators are redirectet.<br />
cancel_url  = The cancel URL.<br />
amount      = The amount you want to have.<br />
ccode       = Currency code (USD = United States, EUR = Europe, …)<br />
image       = The Image of the button.</p>
<h4>Customize in post</h4>
<p>If you want to customize the button in your post you write:<br />
[donate email=”me@example.com” title=”Donate for me once more” return_url=…]</p>
<p>That’s all!</p>
<h4>Customize in theme</h4>
<p>It’s nearly as easy as in posts. You write:
</p>
<p><a href="http://thomas.stachl.me/2008/11/30/tutorials/wordpress-paypal-donation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live demo (at the bottom)!</a></p>


WordPress PayPal Donation

This plugin adds a PayPal donation button to posts and/or theme.

Donation Contest Widget vs WordPress PayPal Donation