How to Add A Paypal Button App to a Tumblr Website

Steps on adding PayPal Button to Tumblr in minutes with no coding and no help from a developer.

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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. Edit Theme

    Go to your Account Settings and click Edit Appearance. Then click Edit Theme.
  3. Edit HTML

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

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

    Create a new Text post in the Tumblr dashboard.
  6. Copy and 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 editing the following PayPal Button plugin directly inside of the Tumblr website:

    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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Brand Identity Begins With a Great Website

Congratulations on making the first move to develop your e-commerce site online -- by getting your Tumblr website live on the web!


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

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Then You Must Customize Your Elements

Some small business owners try to build 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 claim to offer PayPal Button apps for reduced prices or attempt to use open source code.

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Also, customizing these apps usually requires coding experience or another designer to help -- costing even more resources.


In a world where scammers infiltrate sites every day, many other PayPal Button apps out there aren't built with security in mind, which could expose your customers or worse -- crash your whole site. Not with POWR!

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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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POWR provides 24/7 customer support and a dedicated Help Center, so someone is always there to answer all your questions!

Our team of expert engineers work 24/7 to ensure the POWR apps such as your Tumblr PayPal Button working for you.

CASE STUDY: Rbia Shades is winning with POWR apps

Rbia Shades needed to expand beyond its region by bringing its products online. They needed a low-maintenance, non-techie solution.


After much research, they chose POWR as their no-code tool of choice.

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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