Well, I decided that I should add a donation form onto my website. I looked for a nice convenient widget for WordPress, but I actually surprised to find that there was not much to be found. I found a few plugins that required manual insertion of a tag into your sidebar code, but I didn’t want to edit any of the site files as that makes upgrading a big pain when the time comes. The best looking plugin that I found came from a fellow blogger over at http://ejoneclicks.com. While this plugin seemed to have what I wanted, it was not a widget, and in reality, from I read, he based this on a plugin that was a widget (and he wasn’t ready for widgets), but that site now seems to be gone. Go figure.

So, I wasn’t done searching. I hung onto the plugin in case I found anything interesting in the code that I might want to adapt into something later. I finally came a across another site that was offering a widget, but it was basically just a loader for the plugin I already found… (that took a bit of time to figure out too). Well, after all was said and done, I decided that having to load two plugins to get one function was kinda dumb, so I took the two scripts and dumped them together into one widget so that I get the best of both worlds. Plus, I changed the look of the form just a little :). Both the plugins were released under the GPL, and so is my modified version.

Have Fun: PayPal Donate Widget

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