How to add PayPal donation widget to Blogger blogs

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The PayPal donation button is a great way to get extra revenue from your blog. If you give to your readers quality content which is helpful for them, there are great chances to get rewarded by them.So this button is the best tool which will help your readers to reward your great work within a minute, just with a few clicks. You can add this button in every place that you want, but basically blogger put it on the sidebar or beneath every article, which I think is more beneficial. In this guide I’m going to show you how to add the PayPal donation button/widget to your sidebar but also to your blogger posts. So lets not waste time and start adding this button to your Blogger blog.

1. First go to PayPal.com and login to your account.From the menu above, click at Merchant Portal.

2. At the Merchant Portal there are a lots of tools. From the Key Features section in the right click at Donations.

3. Now you are at the section where you have to set up your PayPal donation button. There are 3 steps, each one of them regarding to the settings of this button. At Step 1 by default is chosen the button type which is Donations, so thats ok. At Organization name/service write the name of your blog. Also here you can change the look of your PayPal donation button. There are two options, a simple button and a button with credit card icons below it. Chose the one that you want. But there is also an option which allows you to use your own image as PayPal donation button. If you want that, just paste your image url on the textbox. There are also options to change the currency, also the amount of donations, you can set up it to be fixed or defined by the donors.

4. The next step is just optional and it is not important, so skip it.

5. The last step is about the checkout pages. Here you have to focus only to two text boxes where you have to paste the URL where your donor have to be redirected after they have done the payment or have canceled it. In the end, just click Create Button.

6. Now you are finished, your PayPal donation button is ready, so just copy the code.

How to add PayPal donation button to the sidebar?

1. Login to your blogger account, and open the design section.

2. Now find the place you want to add your PayPal donation button and click on Add Gadget.

3. From the given list find and choose HTML/JavaScript.

4. A new window will appear, paste the code there and click Save.

And your PayPal donation button is ready. Preview your blog and see how this button looks.

How to add the PayPal donation button to Blogger Posts?

1. Login to your blogger account, and open the design section.

2. Click at the Edit HTML tab which will lead you to the Edit Template page.

3. At the Edit Template page check the Expand Widget Templates option. Now you have to be careful here. First find the following code to your template: <data:post.body/> (press CTRL+F paste the code and the browser will find it for you).

Now copy the button code and go to this website to encode it. Paste the code to the form and click Encode. After encoding it, copy the new code and paste it right  below <data:post.body/> and click Save Template.

Preview your blog and see how this button looks. Hope you liked it!

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