Monetize Your Website with PayPal Buttons

How do you add a PayPal button to your WordPress Blog? I first came across this question a few months ago, and it bedeviled me. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to add any arbitrary text, whether it was a pretty Amazon link or a PayPal link, to my blog. What was the problem? My WordPress blog was not self-hosted, and I couldn’t add PayPal or any links to other websites to my sidebar area as [...]