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Wordpress Paypal Integration
Ever want to intergrate Paypal payments into your blog to sell a product or service? Well, there is always someone out there who has the code but how exactly do you install it and make it work? Let me try to walk you through the steps.
Ken Villines offered code for Paypal integration in the Wordpress forums and got lots of, “I don’t understand or I can’t get it working, help!” which is a shame, his easy payment solution really works.
Note: Do not be insulted if you already know basic things like how to FTP, you might be surprised, many do not. This post is for those who need a little help getting payments working in Wordpress so let’s get started.
What you need:
Instruction:
- Backup and save a copy of quicktags.js located in path: wp-includes/js/quicktags.js
- Important: In your Wordpress console go to tab: options/writing and uncheck “Formatting: Users should use the visual rich editor by default” as you see in the picture below if you put on you glasses, hehe.
- Cut and paste this code into you quicktag.js file, save and upload it with your FTP client.
Here is the code you will need to cut and paste into quicktags.js, remove everything in your existing one (did you save a copy? good!) now replace it.
Usage:
- Make a new post and click the “Paypal” botton and you will see a popup window, follow it.
- Enter if you are selling a single or item of want shopping cart checkout.
- Enter the email address you use for your paypal payments,
- Enter the amount you want to sell the item(s) for.
- Enter a product ID (if you have one) and save, the Paypal button should appear in the blog.
Example Button:
Let me know if you have any issues, enjoy!
Posted by admin 
19.Jun.06
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July 6th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Doesn’t work. I did exactly what yo said … no go.
July 10th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
I tried and it doesn’t seem to work for me either.
Is there maybe a step missing?
July 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Ah, you also need to turn off the MYSIWYG editor in order for it to work.
Everything is good now!
Thanks,
Fred
July 12th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Same here. Copied pasted and even checked the quicktags.js. The new code is in their and no go.
July 12th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
oh and my visual editor is on.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
What version or wordpress are you guys using? I just tried it on my other blog that is v2.0 and it is also working fine, strange.
July 13th, 2006 at 3:15 am
v.2.0
July 13th, 2006 at 4:27 am
I find that it is 99% of the time the webmaster, that’s you and me, there must be something you are missing.
Play around with it, that’s how I figure these things that don’t exactly always work out.
Have you asked the guy who wrote the script?
Have you read all his “help” files?
Have you followed his install instruction?
I would love to login to your account and check it out but you might not want to give out you password.
July 13th, 2006 at 5:31 am
Might seem like a dumb question but where is the “MYSIWYG editor” ?
July 23rd, 2006 at 6:44 pm
As I said above: options/writing and uncheck “Formatting: Users should use the visual rich editor by default” as you see in the picture.
If it is unchecked you will not see the editor.
July 25th, 2006 at 2:41 am
Hi
Im about to setup my blog whit PayPal I want to sell some digital products that are for download do you think this solution you have here will work for that as well?
Reinholdt
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August 23rd, 2006 at 10:28 am
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for posting this! This is alot better then my explanation on the WP support forum. I am going to link back to this.
cheers
-Ken Villines
August 23rd, 2006 at 10:39 am
Thanks Ken!
August 24th, 2006 at 9:17 am
I could not get this to work.
August 30th, 2006 at 11:52 am
This worked at first, now when the paypal button is clicked on it redirects to my blogs home page. I have no clue what happened.
September 5th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Nice plugin!
I made a paypal plugin for Wordpress a few years ago and republished it on my blog last week:
http://eoin.free.fr/blog/index.php/2006-09-02-my-old-wordpress-plugins-paypal-buttons-and-proximity-search
It doesn’t work exactly the same way, but it’s the same idea.
September 6th, 2006 at 2:59 am
Thanks Eoin, maybe people will have more luck with yours…
September 9th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
OK guys, had a few free minutes and found your issue, you are required one more step, go to your console in wordress, click the tab “Users” and look all the way down to the bottom (left) - ready for the good stuff?
Uncheck “Use the rich visual editor when writing” the click the “Update Profile” button.
Now do a new post and look for the Paypal button, it will magically appear allowing you to go forth and propser in whatever you do.
Please link to my site or something from your blog, I do not get paid or any credit for helping people out and it really pisses my wife off BIGTIME!
September 20th, 2006 at 12:40 am
How about adding some of the option fields, like in PayPal’s button factory? I.E., “Size: Medium”
September 27th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
First, the tag works great! I doubt I’ll use it too many times, as it’s quicker to cut and paste, but one working example saves a lot of work.
Second, I recommend you integrate #18 (the user-level editor option) into your instructions at the /top/ of the page.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Make that /almost/ great. On Mozilla 1.7.8 (haven’t tried the other suspects), this “add to cart” feature opens a new window with every click of the button. Other e-commerce sites don’t show multiple (and sometimes obsolete) copies of the cart.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:21 am
Since this write-up is basic and intended for people who ‘need a little help’, this may not apply…
But for those who may have edited their quicktags.js file already, be aware that your custom additions and changes will be lost after following these steps.
Not to worry though, you can easily bring them back in with a little patience and some copying & pasting from the backup copy you made.
Many thanks to Aaron and Ken for your work.
September 29th, 2006 at 5:32 am
Hi, I linked to this page from my tutorial on setting WordPress up as an online shop. Thought you might like to know.
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:15 am
Thanks andrea!
October 12th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Looks like it’s working now. There may have been some sort of lag time with the V-Deck interface (http://www.vdeck.com/) that came with my hosting service.
Either way, the magic button shows up in my editor in the menu bar and it seems to work great.
A note here to users - You don’t have to go through the menu each time. You can just cut and paste the code into Notepad and then update the ‘name’,'item number’ and ‘price’ for each item and then paste it back where you need it.
This also allows me to take the entire catalog page and add in the codes to distinguish which of my sales people are selling which items and easily replicate my pages!
Thanks Aaron for getting us a good solution!
Robert Morgen
Mystic Wolf Press, Inc.
http://www.mysticwolfpress.com
October 16th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Everyone,
If you are having troubles and all ready turned off the WYSISYG editor under Options -> writing, you also need to go to users, and at the bottome of your user profiles you should see this :
Personal Options
Use the visual rich editor when writing
(UNCHECK that option as well)
viola!
I tested with PP 2.0.4 Cheers!!
October 19th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
SOLUTION
So, I followed the instructions (BTW, another way to state them is “make a backup of your quicktags.js and replace it with this file” - I actually know some people who can make a mistake in a Copy-Paste operation). No result.
Checked file permissions -all Ok.
And then it hit me - RELOAD the bloody page! Firefox caches things, so the “Write Post” page was comming with the old quicktags.js.
In Firefox to reload thoroughly, hold Ctrl button as you click on the “Reload” icon.
That’s it!
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Works well but say you want the button positioned in the side bar and not the main body?
March 6th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Remember to change mentions of ‘USD’ to ‘AUD’ or ‘GBP’ or whatever if you’re using a different currency!
March 15th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
ok this worked for me on the first try and it is much better than trying to integrate the paypal form itself which always seems to fail. HOWEVER why does it pop up a new page (a duplicate page from the one clicked from) and the paypal window?
March 20th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
This isn’t working for me either
March 20th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
It says:
We were unable to encrypt the certificate ID.
Still not working.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Worked like a charm!
Thanks!
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:45 am
lovely .. beautiful. just what I needed.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I had the ‘unable to encrypt certificate’ error problem with the raw paypal code and fixed it by moving the final “> at the end of the encryption code to be part of the long line above, rather than on its own line. That solved the problem. I have no idea if that is what caused the problem with the plugin, but it could be worth a try.
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:19 am
I’m using WP version 2.2.1 and there is no option anywhere to turn off the WYSIWYG editor so how am I supposed to get around that? I tried writing a new post but there is no new WYSIWYG or any PayPal additions to it. So this plugin doesn’t work for this version.
August 28th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Gemma - I am using the latest version of wordpress and you can skip that step, just copy the quicktags.js file over and that’s it, done!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:12 am
Thanks for this. It works beautifully for me.
Adrian
November 19th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Does this work with Wordpress 2.31? I see no Paypal button as you have described when I go to create a new post or page after I have uploaded the new quicktags.js
Where would this Paypal button appear? I assumed it would be with the other buttons, b i link b-quote, etc.
Am I looking in the wrong place?
November 19th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Is this meant to go along with some kind of plugin or does changing the quicktags.js somehow add this Paypal intergration functionality? If there is a plugin, where can I download that?
Thanks!
December 5th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I have the plugin working fine. My problem is, I want to have this page always be the start page. When using the paypal shopping cart, it always redirects to the start page instead of where they made the order from. Is there a way around this? Like if http referrer = paypal, do not redirect to main page?
Test blog here:
http://www.oldradiofun.com/main/?p=5
December 6th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Well, it does work, but only for the Posts and not for Pages. Is there a way for this to work on Pages as well? BTW, I’m using Wordpress 2.3.1.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Forget it! I had to log out and log in again. Now it’s showing up on pages! Thanks!
April 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am
Is this compatible with Wordpress 2.5? If not, is there an update coming up soon?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
looks like the option of visual editor is gone in wp2.5
any ideas how do handle this in version 2.5
thanks?
June 13th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Curandero - I am using the version 2.5 on other blogs and it is working fine, in fact, let me upgrade this blog with the wordpress automitic upgrade plugin to the latest and you will see, it also works here.