How to Add a Bitcoin Donate Button to your wordpress blog?

Posted on October 23rd, 2015

Bitcoin is gaining a lot of popularity since the past few months. A lot of major websites like Fiverr, US retailer Overstock are now accepting Bitcoins. Even Google is working towards incorporating Bitcoin as a payment method. The craze was recently covered by Mashable and other tech news giants.

Bitcoin is a completely digital currency. The number of bitcoins is limited and a coin is released when a problem is solved. Thousands of computers spend their processing power in mining this digital currency. The value of bitcoin has reached as high as $1000 for one coin.

You can always exchange bitcoins for money in your currency.

When accepting bitcoins however a wallet is needed. There are several websites that offer wallets which is software that stores your digital currency. Here is an interesting article on Forbes that shows how a man lost 9 million in bitcoins sometime ago. At the time, bitcoins were trading at $1155.

Step 1: You need to get a free account at Blockchain and you can do that by going here.

 

Once you have created the account you will get an account id which we will use in future. It looks something like this.

Step 2: You will need the Bitcoin address displayed below

You will also need to apply for an account at Bitpay so that you can receive bitcoins from bitpay to your wallet. Again, you can use a free account. The registration is somewhat long drawn out with details like phone number and address that needs to be entered. You will be better off using an e mail id with a domain name like [email protected].

First confirm your mail id.

After waiting for a few minutes, you will get an e mail saying that your application was accepted, mine came in 3 minutes.

Step 3: Choose Bitcoin from the above options.

Step 4: You will then need to enter your account id which we got from the blockchain website

Step 5: On the next page click on Accept Bitcoin and then select eCommerce.

Step 6: On the next page click Accept Donations

Html code will come underneath which you need to copy paste into the pages or posts where you need bitcoin donation.

Step 7: Enter the details for the donation box and hit generate.

Step 8: You will get html code that you can copy paste to your website and add bitcoin buttons.

 Bitpay donate button supports the following Bitcoin payment methods:

  • Click-to-Pay URI
  • Scan-to-Pay QR code
  • Copy/paste payment methods

 

There are also many plugins available that can do the job for you. We will cover two of them in detail

  1. Bittip Button
  2. Wp Bitcoin

The only thing that you need to do in both the plugins is enter the bitcoin id and select whether you want the donation button on the pages or the posts.

 

 

 

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