Tag: PayPal
Simple PayPal Donate WordPress plugin updated
Version 1.4 of my Simple PayPal Donate WordPress plugin has been released. It introduces a shortcode and a direct link option, the latter returning a URL to link directly to your donation page rather than displaying the PayPal supplied image. All details are on the dedicated plugin page .
Spam Magnet Blog Posts
The website planetOzh has an excellent post about blog posts that attract spam. In it, he provides not only a piece of SQL that you can run to see how your site is affected, but even provided a PHP script that you can upload to your website to graph the results. Mine is to the right. I have my spam [...]
Plugin updates – YouTube Embed & Simple PayPal Donate
After some time off, plugin development has restarted. Two plugins have been modified, and both are relatively small changes. YouTube Embed has had its demonstration video fixed and Simple PayPal Donate now validates with XHTML Strict. In both cases (and for upcoming plugin changes) I’ve also added some commenting to the resulting XHTML so that it’s easy to find the [...]
New versions of WordPress plugins released!
Over the last few days I’ve released new versions of 3 of my WordPress plugins. Flu Pandemic Level – updated to version 1.1. Re-tested and code tidied up, but no major changes. Simple Wakoopa List – updated to version 2. This is a major update which introduces a new caching system, a new method of passing parameters, along with a slew [...]
Writing WordPress plugins – what I’ve learnt
On January 28th of this year I made available my first WordPress plugin – Simple AdSense Insert . I now have 6 in my portfolio, with another 2 about to be published. And in this short amount of time I’ve already learnt a few things. Users don’t talk to you much, unless something isn’t working. Not that it’s [...]
Simple PayPal Donate – WordPress Plugin updated!
Version 1.1 of the Simple PayPal Donate plugin has been launched! This update fixes a problem where some PayPal servers are producing different code than that expected for use within the plugin. Now, whichever version of the PayPal code you get, this plugin will accept it. Thanks to John Kalogerakos for highlighting this to me. Full details [...]
Services for Charities & Non-profits
As a non-profit and charity, I’m often on the look out for tools and services that I can use for the BMTG website . However, apart from various sites offering to create free websites, there seems little in the way of help for such groups. However, there are two sites/companies that I’d like to recommend… Memset They host [...]
Pay-not-my-Pal
Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at improving the eCommerce facilities on the BMTG website . Up until now I’ve handled the handled the ticket availability via a combination of PHP and MySQL. The shopping basket and checkout has then been handled by PayPal. To add some more flexibility, though, I’ve been taking over the [...]
BMTG goes online
The BMTG website now has an on-line ticket ordering system. As it’s early days to see how much income it produces, I’ve gone for the easy option – a one way interface with PayPal, who are also providing simple cart facilities. The ticket screen has been updated and a new MySQL back-end database has been introduced. The ticket screen [...]
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PayPal Comes Through!
A few months ago I finally had a donation via this site. My one and only. Needless to say, I was chuffed and even emailed the donater personally to thank them. I heard nothing back until a few weeks later when PayPal informed me that the donater disputed the money and was requesting it back. [...]
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