Author Archives: Markus

Videoblogger, programmer and teacher.

Get Rid of Those Ugly PayPal Buttons

Learn how easily you can replace the standard PayPal order buttons with your own custom, attention grabbing order graphic, so your order links can start getting the clicks they deserve.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HbMpqzEW7Po

How to Add a PayPal Button to a Wordpress Hosted Blog

I found this screencast from shawmark on YouTube and most of it applies to using Pledge Drive (we just make it easier and more powerful).
“How to add a PayPal button to a wordpress hosted blog. Using Tom Evans PayPal button generator”

Sites mentioned in screencast:

JustGiving.org
Tom Evans PayPal button generator

Unfortunately, it looks like the site mentioned for […]

More on Pledge Drive Widgets and Snippets

Referring back to the previous article, you might ask how are snippets used in Pledge Drive 2? You simply paste the snippet inside a Pledge Drive 2 Progress Meter widget as in the picture below (click to enlarge). Go to the WordPress Admin “Presentation” menu and select the “Widgets” tab.

What if you don’t […]

New Progress Meter Graphics

Our original progress meter example used a template that was pure CSS colors. The new one (in the sidebar currently), uses two small gifs as CSS background images instead of background colors. I really like the improved look and it was a minor change to the snippet used to create the meter. […]

Buy me a beer (please!)

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 […]