So ... Let's see how can you add a PayPal donation button manually (without using a plugin) ...

Log in to your PayPal account, and click the "Manage Buttons" link:

Next, you'll have to click the "Create new button" link to create a new common button:

You'll be taken to the button creation page where you need to choose "Donations" under the button type:

Next, you'll have to complete a 4-step process in order to

• select the country and the language
• choose a button style
• define a purpose (optional)
• define the currency and the amount
• customize additional options

Once you have completed all the steps, you'll have to click the "Finish and Get Code" button:

On the next screen you'll be able to see the generated button HTML code. Click the "Copy to clipboard" link ...

... then open your post/page in the editor, switch to Text mode (nor Visual!) and simply paste the button code in the exact place where you want to add the PayPal donate button:

Once you have published your post/page, you can visit your site to see the live result. In my case it looks like this:

And that's all ... You have successfully created a PayPal donation button by manually adding the HTML code to your Wordpress website. More than that, you can easily insert the same HTML code into a regular text widget in order to manually add the donation button to your sidebar area.

Cool, isn't it?

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