Comments on: WordPress PayPal Donations Plugin

By: Mike L

Mike L — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:39:09 +0000

We,re having the same problem as #34, Joi. I don’t see a response/solution to her question. Need help! Thanks.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:36:17 +0000

Just found a huge issue with this plugin. If the user clicks refresh on the ?action=success page after donation it will add that amount to the total again… without donation. This could be abused and is a dealbreaker for me.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:54:54 +0000

I setup, all seems good – but on using – if I hit refresh/reload while on the thankyou (return from paypal linked page) it increments the total of donations and relists the donator. So it appears that I could donate a dollar and then hit reload to flood the page with false total and many times the donation by me.

By: William

William — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:09:07 +0000

How about a tutorial on how to use this plug-in.

By: Jenny W

Jenny W — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:23:34 +0000

Wondering if there are any technical issues with putting the Paypal plugin onto a wordpress.com site (with WP permsision)?

By: joi

joi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:15:54 +0000

Hello
I followed the instructions for installation, but when you click on the donation button it goes to an action=process version of the donation page and not to paypal..Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Thank you!

By: kym

kym — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:32:23 +0000

I cannot get this to work. I press teh donate button and nothing happens. Test mode takes me to the sandbox, live mode does nothing with an odd URL.

http://www.domainname.com/demo/events/donations/?action=process?action=process?action=process?action=process

running 2.7.1

By: Lucia

Lucia — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:20:30 +0000

Oh– I should add. I altered the plugin names to remove the words ‘paypal’ from the filenames because Dreamhost won’t let me name that. I also altered two lines fo code to:

class donation_class {
….
and

function donation_class() {

// initialization constructor. Called when class is created.

So, I’m looking to see what I misunderstood or missed. It could well be that I screwed up and didn’t rename everything I need to rename. The plugin looks cool, but right now, it’s not doing what I need it to do. (And Dreamhost won’t permit it to run if it’s named as you named it.)

By: Lucia

Lucia — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:03:12 +0000

Hi Sean,
Indy wrote:

We’ve added the plugin to our website currently under development (www.ggscf.com/run/get-involved/donations) – but it’s not returning the donors’ comments back to the page after they complete their donation on paypal

I’m having a similar problem but wouldn’t word it the way Indy did. The message I get back from PayPal is

Dear lucia liljegren,

Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
messages. Messages sent to the following URL(s) are not being received:

http://rankexploits.com/musings/donations-for-peer-review-papers/

If you do not recognize this URL, you may be using a service provider that is using
IPN on your behalf. Please contact your service provider with the above information.

If Indy was getting this problem, I suspect when he said “comments”, he meant whatever the user entered at paypal was not arriving at the blog to register in the MySQL table, create the graph, record the link etc.

I’m going to be following PayPals instructions to see if I can sort if I’m doing something wrong. But..your instructions are to enter the url of my donations page at the IPN page at PayPal, right?

By: Lucia

Lucia — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:32:43 +0000

Dreamhost won’t let users use their interface to upload files with the word “paypal” in the file name or folder name. Any chance you an rename the class, file etc?