Lin171

I really want the button to show up in a specific location, the area that lists how to donate. As opposed to just showing up in the sidebar. But showing up at all somewhere is a step forward!

When I go to make a new post, I don’t see anything on the right side about templates? And you say “page”, I don’t have pages if you mean like a website has pages. Its just a fundraising blog with blog posts. I need the button to appear in every blog post. Does the template/sidebar/thing still apply?

Going to appearance > widgets I have no idea what to do next… The thing that says main sidebar doesn’t let me do anything with it. scrolling down on the left side there’s a thing that says Inactive Sidebar and “this sidebar is no longer available and does not show anywhere on your site. remove each of the widgets below to fully remove this inactive sidebar.”

Here’s what I’m seeing: https://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Lin_171/Stuff/Screenshot%202015-03-24%20at%209.04.23%20PM_zpsfrffma9i.png
And when I click on main sidebar this is all that happens https://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Lin_171/Stuff/Screenshot%202015-03-24%20at%209.04.50%20PM_zpsdqnphtwn.png

The threads were not the same issue, the second thread was specifically about if I had the ability to install a new theme, which I learned I do not. This thread is the html issue. I didn’t get a clear answer in the other thread, but it also appears I do not have the ability to update version myself.

The person who is in charge of the head blog is not reachable, and will not be for some time. Think, months. As I mentioned previously, there is no problem with the paypal button working on other blogs under the parent blog. So there is nothing specifically preventing it from working by the parent blog. The paypal button is present on other fundraising blogs. My contact with the charity is going to log in to her blog to see the code for me, but I do not think that will be helpful since the problem here is the code being changed once submitted.

What information do you need to know about the site? Please ask and I will give you all information I can. I have thus far, the only issue so far was me opening the thread to determine for sure that I do not have the ability to change themes, and was not just going about things in the wrong way.

I’m just trying to make sure I do not ignore any piece of advice or suggestion here, so since themes was brought up I wanted to make sure I explored it as fully as I could and did not ignore the help. Good to know you don’t think thats the problem.

When I open a completely new post to submit the code, the same thing happens. I started a new post with the title Paypal button. I inserted
<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post” target=”_top”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_s-xclick”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”hosted_button_id” value=”NTS37CVLLJ72Q”>
<input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif&#8221; border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!”>
<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>

and immediately clicked to publish. Before my eyes the screen refreshed to show
<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post” target=”_top”>

<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″/>
</form>

I tried to explore the idea of changing from twenty eleven to twenty fifteen theme to see if that would help.

It appears I do not have the ability to change my theme. I do not have the ability to add/change a theme, so could not use a childs theme if I created one. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changing-themes-updating-version?replies=3

Plugins causing the problem was suggested. Any further info on how that could be happening or what to do?

On another blog from the same parent blog, the paypal buttons worked fine. I was speaking to someone from the charity and she mentioned the paypal buttons on another blog. So if that helps with trying to find the cause…

When I go to appearance > Themes thats where all I see is the 1 and talking about my theme being twenty eleven. Do I take that to mean no I do not have the ability to change my theme? I’m the admin for MY blog, but my blog is not the main one, its just a blog given to me by the charity as I explained above. Your instruction on how to change the theme sounds like the videos I watched, and I do not have that option.

If I do not have the ability to change the theme, I assume creating a child theme is pointless for me?

Sorry for the confusion in words used, but by update I meant change my theme. I used update, because I currently have twenty eleven and so twenty fifteen would be “updated” from that. But it appears I do not have the ability to change my theme?

All I really want is to get the html to work on my blog, but it was suggested to do a childs theme to try and fix that, so I’m trying to explore that possibility. It seems thats not a possibility.

What about changing versions? Is that more complicated than changing themes? If I don’t have the ability to change my theme, do I assume I do not have the ability to change my version? I currently have 3.8.5. An individual from my previous thread tried my html on a version 4.1, and it worked perfectly for him. I’m just trying to get this figured out.

I hope I don’t come off disrespectful, I’m very blunt.

I just don’t want/need anything extra. Want the simplest answer here! If I’m going to expend a lot of energy, I want to know why and be sure its the right way to go.

I tried reading that, and I didn’t understand a single word on how to create it. Might as well have been russian lol. Could you explain how that would even solve the problem? When whats happening right now shouldn’t be happening. The code is being put in correctly, then altered when I try to publish it. How does a theme under the parent theme change that?

I’m not looking to hone any skills in creating pages using html. I actually understand html pretty well, used to be able to build an entire site using it. The problem is the html is being changed here every time I try to publish it. So, further learning HTML doesn’t solve it when its already being entered correctly, but changed. And I honestly don’t have a whole lot of time to put into learning things. I should have gotten this blog going months ago, but haven’t had the time. I’m trying to get it going now at a time when I have even LESS time to dedicate to it, but because of too much already wasted time…. The details aren’t relevant, but suffice to say I’ve spent waaaay too much time the last 2 days already that should have been spent on some other existing concerns. All I want is for the html I enter to work. I don’t care about anything more complicated, don’t need anything more complicated. Just to figure out why my html isn’t staying html and working as html.

If you know for sure what the problem is, and that the ONLY solution is to make this child theme, well then I guess I’ll have to decide between giving up on html or putting a ton of time into doing this. But I honestly cannot take the risk right now… And because of all I’ve got going on, my brain is pretty fried by evening and definitely NOT the time to be trying to learn something new and complicated.

Once I get the button to work, actually display on the page, then I’ll have this (with the button) added to the bottom of all posts with the link back to the main post for more info:
To donate, please pick the following method that works best for you!
Quick and easy with PayPal *BUTTON DISPLAYED HERE*

Tax Deductible donations may be made to Karl’s Kid’s Program or Quad Cities Canine Assistant Network. Write -name- in the notes section of a check or money order and:

Address to Karls Kids Program and mail to Karls Kids Program P.O. Box 1989 Interlachen, FL 32148. Paypal donations may be sent to [email protected]

Address to Quad Cities Canine Assistant Network and mail to QCCAN 2725 27th St Rock Island, IL 61201

*For more information on all methods of donation, please see : https://blog.workndog.org/lin/?p=24

I don’t understand what that says at all about how to create a child theme ??

I just want html to work the way its supposed to! For the code to not be altered every time I click publish/update. Could the version be the problem? If so, can I update what version I’m using? Or would that be restricted to the blog that gave me the blog?

Ok, you’ve completely lost me. Can you walk me through the steps to do what you’re saying? I don’t know how to create a theme,or any of the other things mean!

Also, the button needs to appear in a specific place in the blog entry I’m working on right now. Once that page is finished, the button would need to appear at the bottom of each post with the instructions on how to donate and the link back to the blog post I’m working on that breaks down the different ways to donate and explains them. Will your suggestion work with this?

I thought all these things were supposed to make websites easier ?? I kind of miss when I completely knew how to build a page out of html.

Ok, thanks. However that box was already unchecked.

I’m not sure what you mean about “going into Writing” to try unchecking that.

I actually hadn’t noticed the preview option, when I insert the code into text (I still have visual turned off) and click preview, it does not show.

I don’t know if I have any choice over version, I don’t think so. When I looked up the version it said 3.8.5 As I said this is a fundraising blog, and its under the blog owned by the non-profit 501(c)(3) charity. I assume any changes like version being used has to be under the main blog. I don’t know anything about plugins, is that something I’m able to change within my blog?

This is really driving me loopy. This paypal button is the last thing I need to do before making the blog live and passing it along to try and get donations, and I’m also making a fundraising video that will link to the blog for donations and more information, and its been suggested to me to go to the local media where if I did I would link back to the blog for the donations/people to follow the process…

Thanks, I tried doing that. I went to profile and disabled visual editor. Then went to edit post, put in the code, clicked update, and clicked view post. Its still not there.

When I click edit post, code appears as:
<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post” target=”_top”>

<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>

I tried pasting the code in, updating, and viewing post. No changing from text to visual before updating. Still not showing up.

When I click edit post, code appears as
<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post” target=”_top”>

<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>

</form>

I’m not sure what you mean about text widget or sidebar? Can you explain please? I’m new to this, never had a blog before but am fundraising through a charity so I was given this blog from theirs

The page I’m trying to put it into right now is: https://blog.workndog.org/lin/2015/03/23/how-to-donate/