Category Archives: Plugins

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 […]

Notice: About This Site

This is a sandbox testing site and screencasting vlog for the Pledge Drive 2 plugin for WordPress. The PayPal features here require the use of a developer account and are for testing only. At this time, you can not really donate real money on this site, it is for testing only.
We are in […]

Welcome & Introduction

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Here is a first post to kick off this vlog and to provide a sandbox for testing and for creating screencasts about Show in a Box and Pledge Drive 2. I’ve started by documenting the Paypal process on the wiki. […]