We’ve been testing integration of Pledge Drive 2 with other popular plugins and widgets. The first one is Buy Me a Beer. Things seem to be working great! Note that the title option from BMaB is used as “company” field for PayPal request. One thing: BMaB hard codes PayPal urls, so needs a patch to make it work with PayPal sandbox url’s.
You can see the BMaB plugin in action in the side bar and at the bottom of each post or page. This can be controlled on a post-by-post basis, as well as using a default that you can set in the admin options menu.
I prefer the coffee cup icon over the beer mug, but of course you can use your own favorite icon image. Basically, BMaB just builds a standard PayPal payment button. This is not for subscriptions. The payments are reported back to Pledge Drive via PayPal Instant Payment Notifications and so everything is cool.
One concern I have is that there is no license information in the BMaB plugin or on that site that I can find. It appears it was created as a work-for-hire by the SEO blog author of blogclout.com.
There is also a “Buy Me a Pint” site that extends BMaB and charges something like $97 for the code. Google it if you are interested.
Can we do something similar with ChipIn? I think so?