Many branches have expressed an interest in using PayPal as an e-commerce solution for taking donations or event registration payments. WordPress makes this easy! The instructions for including a button are at http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/. The direction are really explained well, in particular, the video is very helpful. If Site Resources maintains your branch or state website, go through step 6 and send us the code along with where you want it located, and we will get the button added for you.

Sometimes it is beneficial to be able to link an email address so that when users click, they can automatically start composing an email to that particular address. This post explains how you take an email address from looking like this– site-resources@aauw.org– to this– site-resources@aauw.org.

1. Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to the page where you would like to place the email, then type in the email address.

2. Highlight the text of the email address with your cursor and copy it. (Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+C for PC and Command+C for Mac).

3. With the email text highlighted, click the Insert/Edit link icon:

The Insert/Edit link icon.

4. In the Insert/Edit link pop-up window, delete http:// from the URL text box and type mailto: Then paste (Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+V for PC and Command+V for Mac) the email you copied in step 2 immediately after mailto:, like this:

Type in mailto: and then paste the email address in the URL text box.

5. Now click the blue button at the bottom of the pop-up window that says Add Link.

6. You should see the email address in your text editing box as a link. Click the blue button on the right side of the screen (Publish or Update) to save your changes.

7. View your site to see your changes!

Advanced Email Link: Add a Subject Line

If you would like to set the subject line of the email when users click the email link, simply add ?subject=”Whatever text you want to appear in the subject line” immediately after you past the email address. So your URL textbox might read something like: mailto:site-resources@aauw.org?subject=”This is the subject line”

For more information about using the Dashboard and editing posts and pages, check out our tutorials.