{"id":1963,"date":"2015-01-20T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:38:58","slug":"why-i-dont-have-a-paypal-donate-button-on-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/why-i-dont-have-a-paypal-donate-button-on-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Have a PayPal &#8216;Donate&#8217; Button On My Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m frequently asked why I don&#8217;t have a PayPal &#8216;donate&#8217; button on my blog. The answer is simple, PayPal doesn&#8217;t allow the button to be used for anything but charitable purposes.\u00a0 As I wrote in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/how-you-can-support-this-site-and-why-you-might-want-to\/\">How You Can Support This Site<\/a> post, I don&#8217;t consider donations to the blog to be charity and PayPal certainly wouldn&#8217;t, so there goes the donation button option! Unfortunately, their donate button is the only one that allows the purchaser to set their own price.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to leave it at that, but I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of requests for the donation buttons over the years and I&#8217;ve figured out a workaround.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, I&#8217;ve written a number of ebooks. If you go to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/my-ebooks\/\">ebooks page<\/a>, you&#8217;ll notice that I have a number of &#8216;add to cart&#8217; buttons. These come from my online store manager. I was able to go there and create a product called &#8216;support this site&#8217; and get an add to cart button that will take you to a page where you can put in a donation amount and then checkout by PayPal. You can find this button at the top of my updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/how-you-can-support-this-site-and-why-you-might-want-to\/\">How You Can Support This Site<\/a> post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m frequently asked why I don&#8217;t have a PayPal &#8216;donate&#8217; button on my blog. The answer is simple, PayPal doesn&#8217;t allow the button to be used for anything but charitable purposes.\u00a0 As I wrote in my How You Can Support This Site post, I don&#8217;t consider donations to the blog to be charity and PayPal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}