A very popular blogging topic is to add a way for users to pay for an upcoming class, or a product or class kit for example, you are selling. You can do this by using your PayPal account and by adding a Pay Now or Buy Now button to your post (or page).
Here is my original, mini tutorial on it:
http://heatherporto.typepad.com/blogs_by_heather/2008/07/adding-a-paypal.html
Below, I tried to add a little more detail to help:
1. Create your post with all the info, images. Basically to finish the post where the only thing you have left is to add the button.
2. Login to your paypal account.
3. Click on the Merchant Services tab.
4. Click on the Buy Now button.
5. Enter in a Item Description (such as a class or kit description). Item ID can be blank. Then put in a Price and select currency format (default is USD, US dollars).
6. Then scroll down a little and there’s a link that says “Customer Appearance”. Click that and you can choose PAY NOW instead of BUY NOW if you want.
7. Then scroll all the way to the button and click CREATE BUTTON.
8. The next screen is a bunch of HTML code.
9. Click on that code and select all of it.
10. Copy it (CTRL + C).
11. Then go back to blog, your post you were working on.
12. Click the EDIT HTML tab. This will look very strange. It is your post in HTML code. It will take some time…but scroll thru it looking for where you wrote a price. Then write the following if you want to center the PayPal button:
<DIV align=center>
…..PASTE all the PayPal code here……
</DIV>13. Then SAVE/PUBLISH your post (or page).
14. You’re done.
You can always go back and change it if you don’t like the location of it. It just takes a little practice to get used to looking and searching thru the HTML code about where you want it “located” in your post.
Happy blogging!
Very helpful information helped a lot thanks.
It just takes a little practice to get used to looking and searching thru the HTML code about where you want it “located” in your post.
Thanks! I was looking for info on how to center my buy it now button.
Hurrah! It worked – thanks for that could have taken me ages to work out. We are not worthy!
thank you! So there is no great mystery. For the life of me I couldn’t figure this out. I am off to create my first button
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Thank you Heather! This was very valuable and saved me some time!
Awesome instructions! Saved me a ton of time installing my Paypal button and was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! https://www.facebook.com/yourfanpagenow
how if we want add many PayPal button??
You can use this tutorial to add multiple paypal buttons in a post or page.
https://www.blogsbyheather.com/2011/06/using-a-store-page-template.html
Thanks so much for the code for centering my PayPal button. You rock!
Thank you so much i always wanted to add a button for paypal on my blog and thanks to you i now have one
Thank you Kez
thank you so much for posting this, i was just trying to figure it out! little things like that get to me…need to have it all aligned 🙂