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 can be found on the plugin’s dedicated page.

I’ve now published my second WordPress Plugin!

“Simple PayPal Donate”¹ makes it easy to place a PayPal donation button in your WordPress theme.

As well as making it easier to control your output, this plugin assists with multiple occurrences across a WordPress installation (maintaining a single point for the code, particularly useful if the code changes in future). It is also XHTML compliant, unlike the original PayPal code.

You can view more details and download it from the official WordPress site, or from it’s official page on this site.

1. can you see where I’m going with these naming conventions! [↩]

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 the BMTG website for free. All you pay for is your domain name, which you can buy elsewhere and point to their nameservers. Their service is excellent as if the quality of their hosting. Oh, and they’re carbon neutral

PayPal
They provide reduced charges to non-profits. Google Checkout doesn’t. Never-the-less the PayPal non-profit charges aren’t much more generous than the standard Google Checkout rate.

There is also Google for Non-profits, a collection of Google tools and sites. Unfortunately, it’s just that. And the link no longer appears to work, even though it was only launched a couple of months ago.

Google Grants offers 3 months of free advertising to, well, people them deem to be appropriate – submit your details and cross your fingers.

If you’re aware of any useful services for non-profits/charities, please let me know.