Donation block no longer working; now just a block of yellow with word Donate

  • I have a WordPress installation on my website, https://douglaslucas.com, at the blog directory: https://douglaslucas.com/blog. The recent posts on my blog, including the most recent one, have your donation block near the end of the posts.

    The donation block used to work great: clicking the block would lead readers to PayPal’s page for donating to me for my writing. However, in the past few months — apologies, I don’t know exactly when — the donation block changed color to a dark gold with the word DONATE written on it in black. Clicking on it now almost never yields anything at all, and I tried in various different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Chromium) with and without adblockers installed. If you search “Still the debate winner” at my most recent post, and scroll down, you can see where the donation block is. One time when I clicked on it, it did briefly pop up a window overlaying my blog that seemed to be a window about donating, but I accidentally closed it before reading it carefully, and I’m not sure how to make it come back.

    Any help you could offer would be vastly appreciated!

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  • Thread Starter douglucas

    (@douglucas)

    Okay I figured out the problem, though not the solution. My blog posts are very long — each one requires readers to scroll down several screens in order to read it all. The paypal donate button is at the end of my posts. So if visitors click it, the “Your Donation” dialogue window pops up near the top of the screen. So if users don’t scroll up after clicking the donate button, they won’t see the “Your Donation” dialogue window and will probably assume (as I did) that the donation button doesn’t do anything.

    With the problem identified, what’s the solution? Can the paypal donate button be made to pop up the “Your Donation” windows *right where the user is on the page* without requiring the user to scroll up to the top?

    Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by douglucas.
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