Campaign widget

[Anastasia Connor]

Hi Bill,

I’ve now switched to WPDonations plugin to accommodate regular gift customisation. The issue now is that my campaign widget is linked to WooCommerce, which is still fine in terms selling products (I have another ‘campaign’ that is essentially all about buying a product rather than donations) but not fine for my donations. Is there a way of linking my campaign widget to a page rather than a WooCommerce ‘product’? Alternatively, what do I have to do to create another widget, smth like a Donate widget?

As ever – massive thanks,

Anastasia xx

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning,

Excellent question. I would probably use a plugin like BlackStudios TinyMCE widget. What this does is it adds a new widget that uses the editor from the page/post screen instead of plain text like the text widget. That way you can add just about any content you’d like to in a widget.

That would be much easier to deal with than creating a new widget out of code. That’s quite a bit trickier to do, though it certainly can be done if you know your way around HTML and PHP.

You could link some of the content in the BlackStudios widget to the page of your choice and have your donation information there. That’s another option for you.

Take care,
Bill

[Anastasia Connor]

Thanks Bill. It works in so far as I now have a link to a page but I don’t have a button, like I had previously using your campaigns widget. What do I need to do to create a similar button that simply clicks through to my new donation page?

Thank you!

Anastasia x

[Bill Robbins]

You can add a button via a shortcode. Place this where you’d like to have a button:

[button label="Your Button Text" url="http://yourlink.com"]

and swap out Your Button Text for what you’d like the button to say and the http://yourlink.com with the URL you’d like to link to.

See if that won’t give you a button.

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