Title: Paypal Button Problems Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Paypal Button Problems * [rmgustaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmgustaf/) * (@rmgustaf) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/) * I’m trying to put Paypal donation buttons on my blog, but for some reason, when I paste the code into the HTML editing box, it continually removes the (src=” [https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif”](https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif”); border=”0″) image line – I click the “update” button and it disappears. * Is there a way to fix this? * Thanks! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-321787) * Sounds like you are trying to get the button in a post ? If so – no can do. In the sidebar is fine, anywhere outside The Loop is fine but in the text edting box – no. The way WP works it’ll break that code everytime. * Thread Starter [rmgustaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmgustaf/) * (@rmgustaf) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322002) * I see – I was trying to put it on a page post. Thanks very much! * [meljgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meljgrey/) * (@meljgrey) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322007) * So what do you do instead? I want to add a Buy Now button via PayPal on a page. How do I insert this outside The Loop? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322008) * You don’t. The simple way is: make a Page template for that Page and insert the code in the template file. Then make the Page using that template… * [meljgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meljgrey/) * (@meljgrey) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322009) * Moshu, I found the docs regarding templates and think I understand how to create one. I’m not clear, though, how to “call” one up. In other words, how I do link to that template? * Also, since this will no longer by a Page (if my assumption is correct), then to add to my navigation, I will need to know the code to use. * Right now, I use: * `` * to add each page to my navigation. How do I call up a specific template? * I hope you’re not totally annoyed with all of these inquiries. I’m just a simple gal in a sea of code jockeys… 🙂 * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322010) * That’s fine, don’t worry. The forum is here to help (if we can). OK, by default to display a [Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) WP will use the “default Page template” of your theme – the file is called `page.php`. If there is no page template, then WP uses the index.php – see [Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy). Now, if we want some special stuff in only ONE Page, but no others, then we create a [special page template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates). You can just save your page.php file as my-page-with-button.php – and don’t forget to add the 3 lines at the top, as described in 7.3 on the Codex page I’ve linked. * When all is done, you go Write > Write Page and create a new Page AND select the new template for the dropdown menu (=Page Templates). The new “thing” you create _will be_ a Page. * Finally. WP displays ALL the Pages you have created – if you use the template tag you posted above (less the children). * Hope this helps and post back if you have more questions. * [meljgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meljgrey/) * (@meljgrey) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322011) * Ohhhhhhhh! I think I get it. I will sit down later tonight (gotta put my 6 and 7 year olds to bed) and go for it. * Regarding the button. I assume this has to sit “outside” the text on the Page entry? * I’m not sure I know how I’ll do this, as I wanted to imtegrate text and an image along with a buy button. * Maybe I should just hard-code it and have no actual text in the Page entry… * What do you think? * [meljgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meljgrey/) * (@meljgrey) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322031) * OK… I now have this working beautifully. I made a new page called buy.php, and essentially dropped the entire page layout code in the template. Then I created a page via the Admin panel whereby I entered on the title. (The rest of the content is contained in the template.) * There’s just one problem… * I wanted to password protect this page by adding a password in the Write Page Password-Protect-Post feature, but since the content sits outside of the “post”, it shows up when you select the page. * Besides editing .htaccess, is there a way to protect the hard-coded content and prevent it from displaying until they enter the password? * Moshu, feel free to move this post to a new topic. I wasn’t sure of the etiquette here. * [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/) * (@ajay) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322036) * You won’t be able to put a button, but if you choose to not encrypt it, you get a link option. * Then put an image with the link. That is what I have been doing on my blog. * [meljgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meljgrey/) * (@meljgrey) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322038) * Could you point me to that page? I’d like to check it out. * [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/) * (@ajay) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322084) * [http://www.ajaydsouza.com/archives/2005/11/14/connections-reloaded-20-roadmap/](http://www.ajaydsouza.com/archives/2005/11/14/connections-reloaded-20-roadmap/) for an example post * [meljgrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meljgrey/) * (@meljgrey) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322098) * Got it. Thanks! * [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/) * (@ajay) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322100) * Your welcome. * [skrimpy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrimpy/) * (@skrimpy) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322212) * This can be resolved without having to upload a page template or a plugin. To do this you need to turn off the WYSIWYG editor through your user panel. * Then put in your paypal code. * Finally, go through the paypal code and remove the line breaks paypal has put in there. For instance paypal has a line break between each input tag. Take these breaks out or else wordpress will manually place a < br> in there. That breaks paypal’s code. * Be careful because there is probably a space in the last input tag (the “hidden” input tag) that needs to be there – there was in my code. It was in the “name” attribute in that code. * What I did was paste my Paypal code into a text editor. Then I updated my Donate page in WordPress and did a View Source on my blog. I found the Paypal code and pasted it just beneath the original code in the text editor. I was able to figure out where WordPress inserted the extra < br> tags that way. * This fixed the problem on my donate page. I didn’t really feel up to tackling anything bigger so I just tried to find another solution and it worked 🙂 * [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/) * (@ajay) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322214) * That is a good solution too skrimpy, but is too painful for new users. * Adding the br that WP does can be a pain to post code, however like you suggested the solution exists 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘Paypal Button Problems’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [paypal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paypal/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 15 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/) * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-button-problems/#post-322214) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics