How to Add A Paypal Button App to a Tumblr Website

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Steps to Add a PayPal Button App on a Tumblr Site

Create your customized PayPal Button app, match your website's style and colors, and add PayPal Button to your Tumblr page, post, sidebar, footer, or wherever you like on your site.

How To Add a PayPal Button App on Tumblr:

  1. Create a Free PayPal Button App

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  2. Appearance > Theme

    Go to Account Settings > Edit Appearance > Edit Theme.
  3. Edit HTML

    Underneath Custom Theme, click Edit HTML.
  4. Paste the Script

    Paste this exact script into your Tumblr HTML file. It's best to add it between the Head tags. Then click Update, and save.
  5. Create Text Post

    Go back to the Tumblr dashboard and add a new Text post.
  6. Paste Shortcode

    Paste the shortcode into the post. Then save. If you expand the post, you will see your new POWR PayPal Button.Click the POWR Settings Icon to open the POWR Editor.
  7. Begin to edit the PayPal Button plugin:

    Go to the live Tumblr website and click the Settings Icon in the upper right corner of the PayPal Button plugin.

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Remove the Guesswork of Building Your Brand

Begin Building Brand Identity From Your Website

Congratulations on making the first move to grow your company online -- by getting your Tumblr website live on the web!


But here comes the next big question: How do you get site visitors to engage and buy your product or service?

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Website Element Customization is Next

Some small business owners try to design a PayPal Button app solo or get an expensive web designer that promises they can build one.


Others try to find web design companies overseas that appear to offer PayPal Button apps for low prices or attempt to use open source code.

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Also, customizing and updating a PayPal Button app involves even more time, and is likely to cause new issues.


As your company continues to progress, you're likely to encounter security issues, as hackers may attempt to manipulate vulnerabilities in the PayPal Button app. POWR has you covered!

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All POWR apps are built to scale with your business on Tumblr, so we offer the most advanced security features and high-volume capabilities on the market to keep your customers (and you) safe.

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Our award-winning customer support team is available 24/7, as well as a dedicated Help Center to answer any questions.

Furthermore, our team of incredible engineers work at all hours to keep POWR apps like your Tumblr PayPal Button up and running for you.

CASE STUDY: Rbia Shades completely transformed their online experience

After much success locally, Rbia needed a way to collect emails effectively on their brand-new website.


Their website provider did not have what they were looking for, so the search was on. After doing their research, they believed POWR was what they needed.

Rbia grew its contact list by 250% using POWR Popup to collect new email addresses from first-time site visitors.


They also added POWR Social Feed to their site and saw a 200% spike in engagement from their site visitors. They also saw a big jump in social media followers and now have over 11K followers on Instagram.

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