WP Donations Plugin – Create a Donation Widget with Donation Goal

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The WordPress Donations Plugin allows you to collect donation for a cause from your WordPress powered site. The main difference with this donation plugin from our other PayPal donation plugin is that this one shows the visitor your Donation Goal and how much you have raised so far. It creates a nice pie chart to show the amount you have raised.

Create unlimited donation campaigns with goals
It integrates with PayPal IPN and updates a progress meter in real time
Accept donation for a cause via PayPal
Easy to use user interface for creating donations

Download the WP Donations Plugin

Download Version 1.1

Compatibility

Works with the latest version of WordPress.

Requires

Requires WordPress 3.0 or higher.

WP Donations Plugin Installation

Go to the Add New plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
Click the upload tab
Browse for the plugin file (donations-plugin.zip)
Click Install Now and then activate the plugin

WP Donations Plugin Usage

Step 1: Go to the Settings menu of the donations plugin and configure your PayPal email address (where the donation money will go to )

Donations plugin settings screenshot

Step 2: Click on the “Add New” link to create a donation (see the following screenshot).

creating a new donation

Step 3: Take note of the shortcode that it generates when you create a new donation (see the following screenshot).

donation shortcode

Step 4: Place the shortcode on a post, page or sidebar widget to place the donation widget. The donation widget looks like the following:

donation widget sample

Your visitors can see what your donation goal is and how much you have raised so far. They can also click on the “Donate” button to make a donation.

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#1 by Roy on June 2, 2013 - 12:51 pm

Seems everything was ticked, but is now working…guess it was a paypal hiccup, it works fantastically, thank you.

#2 by admin on June 1, 2013 - 1:03 am

@Roy, Yes it is available in all PayPal accounts. Go to your profile then look under the Instant Payment Notification preference.

#3 by Roy on May 31, 2013 - 11:54 pm

Hi Admin.
Thank you so much for getting back to me.
I cannot see anything to do with ipn in the selling tools part..is this option available in all versions of paypal accounts?
Thanks

#4 by admin on May 31, 2013 - 2:05 am

@Roy, Please check your PayPal account and make sure the IPN feature is enabled.

#5 by Roy on May 30, 2013 - 10:58 pm

Hi, have looked in forums and support. Very quick question regarding this plugin. People have donated and its confirmed in my paypal. I cant seem to get the totals donated to show up in the pie chart, am i missing a setting or is there a fix for this?

Many thanks. Even without the chart, this plugin is awesome