jennifermontes

<p>Many artists and makers rely on donations to make ends meet and use PayPal’s “Donate” button to make collecting money from their fans as painless as possible. However, according to PayPal’s Terms of Service, the “Donate” button is only intended for fundraising. In their own words:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you are not raising money for a cause, please choose another option. Nonprofits must verify their status to withdraw donations they receive. Users that are not verified nonprofits must demonstrate how their donations will be used, once they raise more than $10,000.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What’s more, many bloggers have had their PayPal accounts suspended <em>before reaching the $10,000 limit</em> simply because they were using the “Donate” button in a way that PayPal did not intend.</p>
<p>To overcome these limitations, artists have switched over to what is generally called a “Buy me a beer” button: a PayPal “Buy Now” button with a fixed dollar amount, usually between $2 and $10, so that fans can still give money without expecting something tangible in return.</p>
<p>The “Buy me a beer” button has taken on many different forms depending on the personality of the person receiving the money (“Buy me a coffee”, “Buy me subway fare”, etc.) and generally works very well, but it has a severe limitation: only fixed dollar amounts are supported. Many people add a drop-down list of various dollar amounts in order to give fans <em>some</em> flexibility, but they are still values that were prescribed by the author. To give fans ultimate flexibility, and make sure makers don’t miss out on people wanting to support their work with big bucks, the <strong>Support My Work</strong> widget was born.</p>


Support My Work

A WordPress widget that displays a PayPal "Buy Now" and lets users specify the amount that they wish to pay.

Tips and Tricks HQ

Johan Steen

<p>Adds a PayPal donation shortcode and sidebar Widget to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup you PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the shortcode options or in the Widget settings. There is also options available for currency, localization of the button, custom payment page style and the return page.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="PayPal Donation WordPress Buttons - Usage and Setup" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oNRrN9qvUxI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>In the Appearance -> Widgets you’ll find the PayPal Donations widget. After adding it to your sidebar you can enter a title for the Widget, some descriptive text that will appear above the button and specify an optional purpose and reference for the donation button to override the default settings.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>Insert the button in your pages or posts with this shortcode</p>
<pre><code>[paypal-donation]
</code></pre>
<p>Which is the simplest option, and uses all default and optional settings. If you want to make a specific button for a specific purpose you can add additional options. Example:</p>
<pre><code>[paypal-donation purpose="Spline Importer" reference="3D Plugins"]
</code></pre>
<p>This donation plugin generates valid XHTML Transitional and Strict code.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The following language translations are already available in the plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Albanian (sq_AL)</li>
<li>Danish (da_DK)</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
<li>Hebrew (he_IL)</li>
<li>Italian (it_IT)</li>
<li>Lithuanian (lt_LT)</li>
<li>Malay – Bahasa Melayu (ms_MY)</li>
<li>Norwegian bokmål</li>
<li>Romanian (ro_RO)</li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU)</li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES)</li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE)</li>
<li>Turkish (tr_TR)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Related Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/paypal-donations-widgets-plugin" title="Usage instructions" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/paypal-donations" title="Use this for support and feature requests" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></li>
</ul>


Donations via PayPal

Easy, simple setup to add a PayPal Donation button as a Widget or with a shortcode.

Support My Work vs Donations via PayPal