Putting a PayPal button in the form instructions area

Are you using a plugin to generate your PayPal button, or just raw HTML? You shouldn’t have any issue using shortcodes in the Form Instructions field. If you’re doing HTML, maybe there’s a problem in your markup. Can you post it so I can see if I can reproduce the bug?

Yes, I’m using Easy PayPal Button Pro through a shortcode and although the shortcode works, the problem is that both that shortcode and your content protector are using forms so they become nestled which is not supported by W3C and generates erratic behavior.

I can put a dummy button in to make the second button work but the content protector submit password button is still never working with nestled form tags. If I could figure out the id for the content (form id=”content-protector-access-form-b63a68406bad45953996f1676da6964c”) I could probably manually add a new form tag with the same id near the end to solve this issue… maybe.

Would there be any way to make an option so the password button was in the beginning by the way? Both more visible and maybe would be possible to avoid this problem.

You could add an identifier to the shortcode; if you added identifier="my_id", that would make the form id content-protector-access-form-my_id and then you could refer to the form as such. Alternately, you could go into screens/access_form.php and move

<?php if (!(($is_captcha) && ($captcha_instr_mode == 2))) { ?>
            <div id="content-protector-form-instructions<?php echo $identifier; ?>"
                 class="content-protector-form-instructions"><?php echo $form_instructions; ?></div>
        <?php } ?>
        <?php if ($is_captcha) { ?>
            <?php if ($captcha_instr_mode > 0) { ?>
                <div for="content-protector-captcha-instructions<?php echo $identifier; ?>"
                     id="content-protector-captcha-instructions<?php echo $identifier; ?>"
                     class="content-protector-form-instructions"><?php echo $captcha_instructions; ?></div>
            <?php } ?>
            <img id="content-protector-captcha-img<?php echo $identifier; ?>" class="content-protector-captcha-img"
                 src="<?php echo $captcha_data_uri; ?>"/><br/>
            <input name="content-protector-captcha" id="content-protector-captcha<?php echo $identifier; ?>"
                   type="hidden" value="1"/>
        <?php } ?>

to just before the <form> tag.

Thank you for your help, the second solution worked flawlessly in my case. I have to admit I don’t understand how it’s related to the captcha but whatever works is fine with me. I just hope I remember to change this code again if you update the plugin in the future.

That’s so if you were to switch to using a CAPTCHA in the future, that it would still work. It’s probably not really necessary to move that part in your present situation, but as long as things are working for you, there shouldn’t be a problem either way.