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Recurring PayPal Donations

Accept PayPal subscription or recurring donation payment from your WordPress site easily.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version1.9
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update21 Aug 20251y ago
Active installations800Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.4 / 5 from 10 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Recurring PayPal Donations version 1.9 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

The Recurring Donations plugin allows you to accept recurring donations via PayPal from your website.

It has a user-friendly and simple shortcode that lets you place a donate button anywhere on your WordPress site. You can add the subscription donation widget to your sidebar, posts, pages etc.

The recurring donations widget this plugin creates is nice looking and user-friendly.

Your users will be able to select a subscription or recurring donation amount and pay you monthly.

This plugin allows you to accept one time donations also. So if some users prefer to pay a one-off donation, they can click on the “Donate Once” tab and make a one-time donation payment.

  • Quick installation and setup.
  • Easily take recurring donations via PayPal. Accept ongoing subscription donation on your site.
  • The ultimate plugin to create PayPal recurring donations buttons.
  • Create the donation buttons on the fly and embed them anywhere on your site using a shortcode.
  • Ability to add multiple recurring donation widgets on your site for different causes. Accept subscription donation for various purposes.
  • Allow your users to specify a donation amount that they wish to pay.
  • Ability to accept recurring payment in any PayPal supported currency.
  • Send your users to a custom thank you page after the payment.
  • Option to send your users to a custom cancel return page from PayPal.

The setup is very simple and easy. Once you have installed the plugin, all you need to do is enter your PayPal Email address in the plugin settings and your site will be ready to accept recurring donations from users.

Shortcode

Insert the following shortcode into a page or post to create a donation button.

[dntplgn recurring_amt1="25" recurring_amt2="50" recurring_amt3="100" item_name="For the victims of XX"]

Here, am1, am2 and am3 are the donation options.

Widget

In order to place a widget on the sidebar, go to “Appearance -> Widgets” and add a new text widget. Now add the following shortcode to the text widget.

[dntplgn]

After adding the widget to the sidebar, you can enter a title for the widget and some descriptive text that will appear above the button. You can also customize the shortcode parameters to override the default options.

For detailed instructions please check the Recurring Donation Plugin documentation page.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • donate
  • donation
  • paypal
  • recurring
  • subscription
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity21 Aug 20251y ago

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