WordPress Stripping PayPal Form Script

  • Resolved InHouse

    (@inhouse)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Hey guys, I’m trying to place code for a drop down menu and “Add to Cart” PayPal button for a very small shopping cart page within my WordPress site. The code is working perfectly when I wrote it out as a separate php page here. When I paste the code into my WordPress page in (HTML view) and publish, the form is all jumbled up and doesn’t function. Is there a better way to place this code? I really don’t want to have the shopping cart outside of my site. I tried adding “code” tags and “blockcode” tags but this isn’t having any effect. I’ve never messed with a page template or anything like that so I don’t know how to do that kind of thing. Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance.

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  • Thread Starter InHouse

    (@inhouse)

    Ok, for anyone interested or having similar issues:

    WordPress was definitely stripping some code (or at least leaving gaps) when I pasted the script and form code in to the pae editor in HTML view so I had to create a new page template for this Shopping page and add the script and form code there. Thanks to Chad for the code example to follow. I had never done that before or really had any idea how it should be done but it’s working perfectly.

    Hey man, were you going to paste that code in? Just asking b/c I’m encountering this same issue now. We’re operating WP multi-sites w/ a custom theme so adding a new template page will be tricky.

    Definitely something to try though if we get to that point. Thanks for posting back!

    Thread Starter InHouse

    (@inhouse)

    @heydasch, sorry, I never intended to post any code. I re-read my post and what I meant was that Chad from PayPal showed me some example code to use as a starting point for my add to cart buttons, etc.

    Check out this post on the PayPal forums if you want help with that stuff. I ended up writing all the button html and script in a new page template to avoid WordPress from stripping code. You could also use a shortcode that simply calls a bunch of code. I’ve used Shortcoder before but there are others. I am in no way an expert so I use all the help I can get with plugins, etc. Hope I’ve helped! The shopping cart is still in development and is currently here if you want to use it as an example.

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