Perhaps you use your WordPress-powered blog to share some of your creations with the Internet community. This could be in the form of useful images, scripts, simple games, or even WordPress plugins. By offering these services to the community for free, it’s only fair that you give them the opportunity to give you something back. That’s why so many of these kinds of sites have some sort of “donation” button on them.

You could certainly log into your PayPal account and go through the process of creating the donation button using their tool, but some have noted that the generated script may not be XHTML compliant. Further still, you may only want to place the PayPal Donation button in certain posts, avoiding the integration with your template files. What happens if you want to change something after the fact? Are you going to edit all of those individual posts?

Overcoming both of these concerns is the recently developed Simple PayPal Donate WordPress plug-in. This plug-in does exactly what you’d expect it to do. Moreover, you can edit it from a single location and have the effects reach everywhere where the code is implemented all at once. This functions in a similar way to something like AdSense-Deluxe, for example.

Unfortunately, the Simple PayPal Donate plug-in does not have an options screen within the WordPress dashboard. Instead, you’ll need to configure it through the raw code and, optionally, by modifying the plugin itself. For more information, check out the official page at Artiss.co.uk.