PayPal Donate Buttons are a fast and easy way to accept online donation payments for your WordPress blog or site. In this tutorial we will teach you how to create a PayPal Donate Button shortcode in WordPress via a PHP function.

Since PayPal is such a well-known force in the e-commerce world we encounter it often. One thing we noticed is that their ‘Button Factory’ lacks the ability to create a custom button without having to upload an image. In this tutorial we will teach you a very simple method to break free from the restraints of the ‘PayPal Button Factory’ by making a small change to the default button code and adding some CSS.