Setting up a WordPress blog for promoting a service or product of your own is a great way to get up and running on the Internet. You can be up and blogging in a few hours, and maintain the site for yourself. However, if you want to attract payment through your site, you may find that your PayPal Buttons do not work correctly in your posts or pages.
Here is a simple WordPress guide to add a PayPal payment button within posts on your blog. Follow these seven steps to add PayPal to your site and monetize your online presence.
Seven Quick steps to putting a PayPal Button on your WordPress Blog
- Install WP Simple Adsense Insertion, which is a simple WordPress plugin to insert Google Adsense into posts, pages, sidebars.
- Activate the plugin, which will add a new Simple Adsense Insertion menu option under the settings menu option.
- Login to your PayPal account, then go to Merchant Services and then chose your option from the available list.
- For the purpose of this exercise we will select Sell Single Items, and fill in the boxes for your service or product.
- Highlight the code for your Button under the Website tab and press Cmd +C (Mac) or Ctrl + C (Windows) to copy the code for the button.
- In WordPress click on Simple Adsense Insertion and then click into the top text field next to Adsense Ad Campaign 1 Code and Cmd +V (Mac) or Ctrl + V (Windows), and then click Update Options
- Back in your new post or page, paste the code
Use this simple guide to add a PayPal payment button within posts on your WordPress blog, and start to earn money!