Adds a PayPal donation shortcode and sidebar Widget to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup you PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the shortcode options or in the Widget settings. There is also options available for currency, localization of the button, custom payment page style and the return page.
Widget
In the Appearance -> Widgets you’ll find the PayPal Donations widget. After adding it to your sidebar you can enter a title for the Widget, some descriptive text that will appear above the button and specify an optional purpose and reference for the donation button to override the default settings.
Shortcode
Insert the button in your pages or posts with this shortcode
[paypal-donation]
Which is the simplest option, and uses all default and optional settings. If you want to make a specific button for a specific purpose you can add additional options. Example:
Removes PHP notice when running WordPress in debug mode.
Version 1.8.3 – 11 Apr 2014
Adds a Remove Line Feeds option on the Advanced tab, that makes the PayPal
form output not be affected if using a theme or a plugin that modifies
WordPress to start auto styling shortcodes/widgets.
Version 1.8.2 – 22 Mar 2014
Adds the option to have PayPal open in a new tab.
Version 1.8.1 – 27 Apr 2013
Various minor code improvements.
Bumps required WordPress version to v3.0.
Updated Romanian Translation by Denis Ciumbargi.
Version 1.8 – 9 Mar 2013
Added tabbed navigation in the plugin admin settings, and moved Extras into
the advanced tab.
Updated the admin input fields in size to follow WordPress standard layout.
Implemented return method, as an advanced option.
Updated administration to use WordPress Settings API.
Refactored code to comply with the PSR-2 standard.
Bumped minimum PHP version to 5.2.4.
Bumped minimum required WordPress version to WordPress 2.8.
Version 1.6 – 13 Mar 2012
Added an option under extras to set a PayPal checkout language.
Added filter paypal_donations_purpose_html, to allow tweaking the default
hidden form input element for purpose.
Included Romanian translation by Marko Pozner.
Version 1.5 – 9 Jan 2012
Added an option to disable PayPal statistics tracking image.
Added an option to center the button by overriding the theme CSS.
Version 1.4.9.6 – 23 Oct 2011
Included Malay – Bahasa Melayu translation by Amir Shariff.
Version 1.4.9.5 – 3 Sep 2011
Added filter ‘paypal_donations_url’, to hook into the URL used, to be able to
try the button against PayPal’s Sandbox for instance.
Added filter ‘paypal_donations_amount’, to hook into the set amount before
rendering the button.
Included Lithuanian translation by Nata Strazda.
Changed the plugin class name from paypal_donations to Paypal_Donations.
Version 1.4.9.4 – 22 May 2011
Included Norwegian translations by Tore Johnny Bråtveit.
Version 1.4.9.3 – 18 Apr 2011
Added Turkish Lira (TRY) to the list of currencies.
Version 1.4.9.2 – 02 Apr 2011
Added four new currencies that PayPal supports for donations to choose from:
Brazilian Real (BRL), Taiwan New Dollar (TWD), Philippine Peso (PHP), Thai
Baht (THB)
Version 1.4.9.1 – 08 Jan 2011
Included Turkish translation by Ersan Özdil.
Version 1.4.9 – 08 Jul 2010
Included Dutch translation by WP webshop.
Version 1.4.8 – 29 Jun 2010
Added shortcode for button_url.
Removed a few deprecated functions from the code.
Included German translation by Rian Kremer.
Version 1.4.7 – 30 Apr 2010
Included Spanish translation by Neoshinji.
Version 1.4.6 – 19 Feb 2010
Included Italian translation by Gianni Diurno.
Updated the .pot file to include the latest strings for translations.
Version 1.4.5 – 28 Nov 2009
Added shortcode for the return_page.
Version 1.4.4 – 4 Nov 2009
Included Hebrew translation by Daniel Chcouri.
Version 1.4.3 – 15 Oct 2009
Included Danish translation by Georg S. Adamsen.
Version 1.4.2 – 14 Oct 2009
Included Albanian translation by Romeo Shuka.
Version 1.4.1 – 6 Sep 2009
Corrected available language translations for the button graphics.
Version 1.4 – 6 Sep 2009
Added a dropdown menu to select country and language to localize the graphics
of the donation button.
Version 1.3.3 – 2 Sep 2009
Included French translation by Thomas Cailhe (Oyabi).
Version 1.3.2 – 28 Aug 2009
Included Russian translation by FatCow.
Version 1.3.1 – 25 August 2009
Added Swedish translation.
Added the .pot file and textdomained all strings to allow translations.
Version 1.3 – 8 July 2009
Added an option to set a default donation amount.
Version 1.2 – 18 June 2009
Added a sidebar Widget (WordPress 2.8 or newer)
Version 1.1 – 23 May 2009
Added an option to select the currency to make the donations in.
Changed the default button in a new install from a custom button to the large
button.
