Adding a PayPal button to a Wordpress post requires a couple of simple tricks.

To generate the button on PayPal was easy: login, click through to Merchant Services, then Buy Buttons. Go for the Donation button type, follow the guidance on screen and PayPal will generate the HTML for you. Paste the HTML into the Wordpress HTML editor and off you go, right? Not quite. I found that Wordpress dropped most of the HTML when I saved the post. A quick Google search turned up this helpful post, which suggests you create your own IMG HTML tage and link it to the Email URL generated by PayPal.

I took things one stage further, and just used the Wordpress Visual editor to create the image, then linked it to the Email URL generated by PayPal.

Also, here are the URLs of a couple of alternative PayPal buttons…

<span class="attribute-value">https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but04.gif - </span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;business=EY85LXSJVH5TJ&amp;lc=GB&amp;item_name=Silicon%20Guru&amp;item_number=Fluid%20Blue%20Safari%20theme&amp;currency_code=GBP&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_SM%2egif%3aNonHosted"><img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but04.gif" alt="" width="62" height="31" /></a>
https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif - <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;business=EY85LXSJVH5TJ&amp;lc=GB&amp;item_name=Silicon%20Guru&amp;item_number=Fluid%20Blue%20Safari%20theme&amp;currency_code=GBP&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_SM%2egif%3aNonHosted"><img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" alt="" width="73" height="44" /></a>