So ...

There are two ways that will allow you to create PayPal donation buttons in Wordpress:

• using a plugin
• adding a button manually
  

We are going to cover both methods ... And obviously, both methods will require an active PayPal account.

Let's start with the easiest, plugin-based solution. We are going to use a handy plugin called PayPal Donations.

Here it is:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-donations/

It's a very small plugin (80 KB), but let's see the usual speed tests ...

Here are my results before installing the plugin ...

... and the result after installing and activating the plugin:

No more comments needed ...

So let's see how it works ...