Paypal buttons in wordpress...........Brutal!

camster
Contributor
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Why doesnt PayPal have a solution for Add to Cart buttons in wordpress???
The buttons end up super big and fuzzy.
Try text only and ends up with ugly double box around it.
Try adding size in the html......nope
Try adding css...........not a chance
Try adding in a table, outside a table.......uhuh
What should take 10 minutes and I am now into my ninth hour.
Millions of people use wordpress and has been around for a long time.
Anyone else as frustrated as me?

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PayPal_Nate
PayPal Employee
PayPal Employee

Hi camster,

 

I was looking on the wordpress support side and found this article:

 

https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/6/

 

Without digging into the logic that wordpress has around rendering images, I can see on the tutorial provided by wordpress that they also show the button with the outline around it.  If you place an image in a regular HTML page you won't see that issue, so this indicates to me that wordpress styling is setting a border property in the css which sets that border that you're seeing.

 

As for the resolution of the button, if you go directly to the button image URL, you will see that the resolution is good because the image isn't being re-sized in any way.  Without seeing your page I can't say what the specifics are, but I'd be curious as to what the default wordpress settings are for images.

 

https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif

Another option would be to install a 3rd Party Plugin for wordpress that integrates with PayPal.  

 

You can see some of the plugin options here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=PayPal+Cart

 

I would highly suggest that you review the capabilities and features of the plugins to ensure that you select the one that best suites your business.

 

Let me know if you have further questions!

- PP_N8

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