Yes it can be done.
You must be incorrectly pasting some code at the start of the Paypal code.
Is it PHP code? If so, did you wrap the code in <?php ?> tags?
Khhhaaan! You have the fastest “Send Post” button in the west, podz. 😉
the paypal code is within a form tag (it’s on a page not a post – if that makes any difference)
here’s the page: http://www.homeofficevoice.com/support-us/
Can you post your page content here so we can see what it looks like?
Did it. Didn’t work.
Simply wrapped the code around <?php ?> tag
No, if it’s a form it won’t require the PHP tag wrapping. Can you post the code there, or is that what didn’t work?
Yep, I can post the code there and it came back with the new code wrapped in php – when I pasted it into my WP page it still shows the whole code and not the button.
Okay… I can place the PayPal code in the sidebar.php and the button appears as it should (and therefore it will appear on every page – not what I want), but …
when placed in a individual page (or post) it does not work …
Has anyone been able to place a PayPal button within a Page?
If you’re trying to paste PHP code into an actual post/page on your site and not having it appear as part of your theme; then you’ll need a plugin to get that code to execute (e.g. PHP Exec).
It’s not PHP code, Manzabar. It’s just a form. Somehow the form is being converted to HTML entities, but damned if I know why right now.
WP is automatically changing the < into <
I guess it’s by design, not sure.
But you can get Alex King’s WP-Unformatted plugin:
http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/content.php
You’ll have to format everything else in that post, though (i.e. paragraph tags), but it should get the rest of your html to display correctly.
Hmm, WP 1.2.2 & 1.5 don’t muck about with my HTML.
@homeofficevoicecom: Did you turn on the Markdown or Textile plugins? Maybe that would do this?
Found the problem!
Manzabar: don’t use those plugins but I do use the WYSIWYG Plugin from Mudbomb.
Deactivated it and placed the code again and the button appears.
Shame because the plugin is a beauty – especially the image manager.
