When 2 Buttons on 1 Page No Popup

I can confirm this problem too. The first of any button works as expected, but subsequent buttons on the same page load without a pop-up, and more importantly will fail to actually process any payments.

I assume this happens because data is not being passed as it should do.

The plugin states that any number of buttons can be added to a page, but, unfortunately this does not appear to be the case.

Is there anything that can be done?

I have this problem also. It definitely does NOT send the info to PayPal on any button other than the first button on the page! This is NOT good Scott. I have figured out a work-around, but it definitely isn’t what I want. This is something that really needs to be addressed, or remove the statement that you can put more than one button on a page. It simply isn’t true!

OK … here’s what I determined. The only thing that doesn’t work with more than one button is that it doesn’t pop up the small box. It DOES send the info to PayPal however, but if it’s a small amount, PP has a glitch in THEIR system that asks one to add money to their account. It’s not an issue with the plugin (except for the small pop up box); it’s a problem with PayPal! It would be nice to solve the pop up issue as that’s pretty slick, but … well … it seems to work otherwise. I haven’t actually downloaded anything yet, so we’ll have to see what happens at that stage of the game. My apologies to Scott. I’m sure you’re doing the best you can.

Well … not quite the “only thing that doesn’t work with more than one button” … what also doesn’t work is the forwarding to the URL that you put in the button. It will go to PayPal and PayPal will take your money, but it then attempts to forward to the hexcode that the plugin creates for your forwarding page (or whatever) and you get a blank page! This doesn’t allow the buyer to do the download, which is a very bad thing! (At least this is how it works on MY computer. YOUR computer may do it differently, I don’t know.) So, the bottom line is that if you want it to work for ALL the downloads, there can only be one button a page. OK … it’s not quite as slick as it could be, but one can work around that. I give this plugin 3 stars and will be willing to change that if it’s ever fixed to do what it says it will do.

The only work-around I have found is to place the multiple buttons in individual iframe’s instead, to give the illusion that they are still all on the same page.

A bit of a pain, but it will work then.

THANKS VERY MUCH! I will try this because having them all on one page is MUCH better. I’ll post how it works … but it will be later. Thanks again.

And Scott … take notice. It would be best if you would actually fix it to work properly from the get go.

Hey, I’m having the same problem. Disappointed that the plugin doesn’t do what it claims. Can’t get my second button to work on the same page.

About ready to give up and just create a separate page for each button. Pain in the ass, but I need to make this work.

satur9web, can you post a snippet of code showing how you used iframes to get multiple buttons on the same page? Thanks.

It’s nothing much beyond what you’d expect, but here’s how I did it:

1. Create a separate Page for each of your buttons, and paste the EPDD shortcode into each. These pages should have a very basic page template (no header/footer, etc.) – If you load the page in a browser for example, it should show the button and nothing else.
2. In the page you want to display all of the buttons, switch the editor to Text mode.
3. Insert an iframe as such:
   <iframe src="your-url-to-button-page" height="100" width="100"></iframe>
4. Repeat for as many buttons as you want to add. Adjust the width/height values as necessary to the size of your button.

Thanks satur9web. That’s kinda what I figured. About as much work as just creating a whole new page for each item sold. Thought maybe you’d found some other type of workaround.

So I’m just gonna go with separate pages for each item. Again, disappointed that the plugin doesn’t do what it claims. At least it does everything else it claims, and makes the PayPal API interface easy.

Fixed in version 1.4!