Buy Me a Beer - PayPal Donation WordPress Plugin

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This WordPress plugin allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin is widget enabled.

The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer” button to

1. The sidebar

2. At the bottom of all posts

When your readers click on that button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from where they can donate money to you.

Why add a “Buy Me a Beer” button instead of a simple “Donate Money” button?

Past experience shows me that asking people to donate money by giving them a specific reason increases donations by 200%! (Read more in the “power of specific phrasing…“)

For people who prefer non-alcoholic drinks, there is a setting to replace the beer mugs with coffee cups too!

Update: Version 1.4 of the plugin is out. It now allows you to select your own currency!

Buy Me a Beer - WordPress Plugin v 1.4

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Installation

  1. Download the “buy-me-beer_131.zip” on your computer. And then unzip the file.
  2. Upload the unzipped “buy-me-beer” folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
  3. Log in to WordPress Admin. Go to the “Plugins” page and click Activate for the “Buy Me Beer” plugin.
  4. Go to the “Options” page and click on the “Buy Me a Beer” link on the submenu.
  5. Input your email that you use for your PayPal.
  6. Change other preferences and add the title and text you prefer (optional).

How to Use the Plugin

  1. Adding Buy Me a Beer PayPal Donation buttons to all Posts:
    Check the “Auto Insert” field on the “Options>Buy Me a Beer” page.
  2. Adding Buy Me a Beer PayPal Donation image to the Sidebar:
    Click on “Presentation” and go to “Sidebar Widgets” submenu. Drag-and-drop the “Buy Me a Beer” widget from the “Available Widgets” to the “Sidebar.”

Advanced Usage

Insert the following template tags anywhere in your template pages to show the Buy Me a Beer plugin.

For sidebar (shows the bigger image):

<?php buymebeer_sidebar(); ?>

For posts and page content (shows the smaller icon image):

<?php buymebeer_content(); ?>

This plugin is Beer-ware :) If you use it please buy me a beer by clicking on the “Buy Me a Beer” button below!

If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)




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  1. AG Wright wrote:

    I can’t seen to get this plug in to work. Is it working with wordpress 2.1?

    Or could it be my theme?
    Thanks

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  2. Andy wrote:

    This plugin would break my sidebar by not displaying any of the widgets below the buymeabeer plugin. However if you remove the line “<div style=”clear: both;”></div><br />” from line 70 in buy-me-a-beer.php it works fine.

    FYI: I’m still running Wordpress 2.0.10

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  3. johns wrote:

    your blog is good

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  4. Brian King wrote:

    I am interested in the buy me a coffee plugin, but always seem to end up here to get the buy me a beer plugin. The beer is a little too much for some of my readers, they would more ikely buy me coffee! Is there a site for the coffee plugin?

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  5. Roberta wrote:

    I changed the icon to a martini glass for my site, I don’t care for beer.

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  6. Joe Bloggs wrote:

    We have the plugin installed, but it can’t seem to find the required images … any ideas?

    Can’t really figure out why they are not showing up.

    Any help, much appreciated.

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  7. Stephanie wrote:

    To get the images to show up, you need to set the permissions for the buy-me-beer plugin directory to be readable by everyone, and you need to set the . You do this by telnet/sshing to the directory and using “chmod 744 *.gif” once there.

    The problem I found was that I cannot get the paypal link (which contains my email address) to stop being mangled by the “mangle email addresses” plugin that I use in my blog.

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  8. David Petherick wrote:

    I set up a PHP-powered script at buy-me-a-pint.com which will even take regular monthly PayPal donations, and just link from my blog from time to time. I call it a ‘Virtual Bar’, and it lets my donors add their own names and links automatically when they buy me a drink.

    I’ve set up a few for people including one that’s a virtual coffee shop - you can get the script to install yourself on any PHP/MySQL server for $97. It paid for itself in a few days for me, and still gets unexpected ‘thanks’ coming in for my good deeds.

    Regards, David

    Posted 31 May 2007 #

  9. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Thanks all for posting your comments.


    AG Wright - The plugin has been tested with WP 2.1 and it works with it. Can you tell me what error you receive?


    Andy: Thanks. I’ll ask my programmer to look line 70 up.


    Johns: Thanks for your kind words.


    Brian King: The same beer plugin can be used to show “Buy Me a Coffee” - there is a setting in the Options that allows you yo replace the beer mugs with coffee cups.


    Roberta: Thanks for making changes to the plugin to suit your own needs. Maybe you can make the martini version available from your website.


    Joe Bloggs: Stephanie has given you the answer.


    Stephanie: Thanks for posting solutions for others. Not sure how I could help you with your mangle plugin in place. But let me know the plugin you use and I’ll ask my programmer to see if there is something he can do to make it work.


    David: Thanks for your link.

    Posted 01 Jun 2007 #

  10. Stephanie wrote:

    I fixed the mangler problem by hard-coding my email address using url-encoders, specifically by replacing “@” for “%40″ in my email address in the plugin, and now it works! So, if anyone has the EmailShroud plugin installed (from Somethinkodd), use that to encode your email address as a workaround.

    I then went on to modify the “Donate to PayPal” Feedburner FeedFlare widget to say “Buy Me Beer” when people get my posts via RSS. However, the in-post Buy Me a Beer link also shows up in the RSS feed (which is interesting), so it may not be needed if you plan to keep Buy Me a Beer active all the time.

    Also, Ankesh: THANKS FOR THE BEER! It was a Summer Wheat at Boulder Creek Brewery, a local brewery that’s just up the road from me.

    Posted 01 Jun 2007 #

  11. Joe Bloggs wrote:

    How does one CHMOD on a Windows based server?
    We have many WP plug-ins installed and have never had to CHMOD anything especially .gif files?

    Its a path issue as far as I can tell.
    Maybe a mod to the plug-in where we can set the graphics location path would fix it.

    Any other thoughts.

    Thanks in Advance …

    Joe Bloggs

    Posted 02 Jun 2007 #

  12. Rene wrote:

    Uploaded the unzipped folder of buy-me-a-beer into my Wordpress 2.2, it does not show up on plugin page.
    changed the chmod to 744 as suggested.
    nada.

    Do all the .gifs have to be chmod too?

    What? All my other plugins show up.
    chnaged all the files chmod to 744, nada

    still doesn’t show on my plugin page

    Rene

    Posted 03 Jun 2007 #

  13. Griffin wrote:

    Looks like a pretty good plugin, provided that the blogger double-checks the code before implementing it. ;)

    Good work.

    Posted 03 Jun 2007 #

  14. Culture Shiok! wrote:

    Is there a version for Blogger?

    Posted 03 Jun 2007 #

  15. IngaOz wrote:

    Somehow it not works for me. I use WP 2.2 and when I upload plugin folder in wp-content/plugins it even not shows in my Admin Plugins directory… Any ideas?

    Posted 03 Jun 2007 #

  16. Alwitt wrote:

    I wonder if there is an e-gold version?

    Posted 04 Jun 2007 #

  17. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    The plugin has been tested with WP 2.2 and it works fine.


    For people who can’t see the plugin on their Admin Plugin page - may I suggest you check where you have uploaded the plugin in the first place?


    If you have upgraded your blog recently to WP 2.2 - then please make sure you upload the plugins to the upgraded blog directory / folder and not the old blog directory / folder.

    Posted 04 Jun 2007 #

  18. IBMeye wrote:

    Nice plugin. re: Joe Bloggs If you have access to the server you can right click andf set permissions. Otherwise, your host probably provides some kind of webbased utility to set permissions on a file (chmod is *nix only). You should search the FAQ at your host.

    Posted 06 Jun 2007 #

  19. Jermayn Parker wrote:

    Just wondering how to use this so the buy me beer only displays on certain pages/ posts??

    Thanks

    Posted 06 Jun 2007 #

  20. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Joe Bloggs: Have not tested the plugin on Windows server. Will ask my programmer if he can take a look at it and help you out.

    Jermayn: While writing the post / page - you will find an option in the right column - where you can disable the beer plugin for that specific post/page.

    Posted 06 Jun 2007 #

  21. Scorp wrote:

    What about the possibility to change che currency? I would prefer EUR instead of USD :p

    Posted 06 Jun 2007 #

  22. EF wrote:

    Hi! I’m going to take your beer mug image on my paypal donate!

    Posted 07 Jun 2007 #

  23. Ben wrote:

    What an awesome plug-in! Let’s see how many people will buy me a cheap $1 PBR.

    Posted 07 Jun 2007 #

  24. kReEsTaL wrote:

    Hi! I agree with Scorp, I would appreciate the possibility to change the currency from US$ to EUR. Is this possible to do that somewhere in the code by oneself? Please help :)

    Posted 10 Jun 2007 #

  25. Foehammer wrote:

    Word of warning to K2 theme users — I just ran into a serious bug from this plugin when I attempted to implement the embedded Buy Me a Beer widget into my disabled plugins column. It wiped out 2/3rds of the modules in that column and now I can’t seem to add any module at all.

    I also was unable to remove the Buy Me a Beer module but it vanished (along with the others) when I attempted to create a php module and insert the php code for this plugin.

    I’m about to install a backup and hope for the best.

    Otherwise, I was very happy with how easily the plugin installed for the content, but K2 users must always expect the unexpected.

    Posted 10 Jun 2007 #

  26. Bart wrote:

    Awesome pluginn. I just changed it a bit so that people can buy me a glass of wine.

    Just two questions:

    1. If people click my link they come to a paypall account with balance in USD. What should I change in the script in order that people see EUR mentioned (well, I live in Europe so EUR would be more convenient)?

    2. When people click a certain post in the paypall account shows up the following: Buy me a beer for “name of post”. How could I change this into “buy me a glass of wine for…”?

    I appreciate your help and if you can solve this, this is word some glasses of beer!

    Posted 11 Jun 2007 #

  27. Iwo wrote:

    This is cool but I have implemented this in my blog a long long time ago and no need for a plugin, just a simple image link to paypal. You can take a look at my blog in the footer. Seems like a better idea then adding another plugin to your wordpress installation. Nevertheless, its still a cool idea and I’m glad your sharing the plugin for free with the world!

    Posted 14 Jun 2007 #

  28. JerkyBeef wrote:

    Great plugin… i just implemented a few weeks ago but just set it up… I’m also offering free link backs for whoever, buys me a beer…

    again, great plugin…

    Posted 15 Jun 2007 #

  29. VIVA THE GAME wrote:

    Thanks. It works great. Let’s see who will buy me a beer.

    Posted 18 Jun 2007 #

  30. Andrew Peacock wrote:

    Hi,
    I’m trying to over-ride the default instructions, but with no instructions I’m failing miserably.

    I’ve tried:
    $beerargs = array (
    “before_title” => “”,
    “after_title” => “”,
    );
    buymebeer_sidebar($beerargs);

    But with no joy.

    Can you provide instructions on this?

    Regards,
    Andy

    Posted 19 Jun 2007 #

  31. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Hi Andy,
    What are you trying to accomplish?

    Posted 19 Jun 2007 #

  32. Benny wrote:

    My theme is not widget ready. Is there a way I can still place the plug-in in the sidebar?

    Excuse me in advance if this is a stupid question.

    Thanks,
    Benny

    Posted 21 Jun 2007 #

  33. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Hi Benny,

    Yes You can. Instructions are given on this page as well as on the ReadMe file that comes with the plugin.

    After installing the script, you’ll have to place the following code in your sidebar:


    < ?php buymebeer_sidebar(); ?>

    Posted 21 Jun 2007 #

  34. Declan Stanley wrote:

    One problem I have with this plug in, or rather with PayPal, is that when you go to the PayPal payments page PayPal displays your PayPal email address at the top of the page. Is this not a security risk that allows every spambot and phisher to find your PayPal email address and start to bombard you with spam and phishing emails?
    I know that this would be a problem with any PayPal donate or payment link, not just this plug-in.

    Posted 22 Jun 2007 #

  35. Adam Kayce : Monk At Work wrote:

    I had the same concern as Brian, so I changed all the ‘beer’ references to ‘chai’.

    And is there a way to have the title of the post they came from disabled? (so when they go to PayPal, it just reads, “Buy Me a Chai”?

    Thanks, Ankesh!

    Posted 22 Jun 2007 #

  36. Benny wrote:

    The plugin has been installed and activated, and I am able to use the auto-insert into each post function.

    I input your code into the sidebar.php of my theme (see below). However, all I see on the sidebar is the php code itself.

    Did I do something wrong?

    Posted 22 Jun 2007 #

  37. Benny wrote:

    I figured it out. There was a space in the code in your reply that needed to be removed.

    This plugin frickin’ rocks, dude. Nice work. I can’t think of anything that fits my website better than this.

    http://summerofbenny.com

    Posted 22 Jun 2007 #

  38. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Hi Adam,

    Nice to see you here :)

    There is no way to disable the post title from the Options panel. But it can be disabled if you are willing to edit the code for the plugin a bit… Let me know if you don’t mind doing that and I’ll ask my programmer to send you details.

    (I’m not sure why you would want to do that though… knowing which post helped your readers so that they are buying you a chai is very helpful…)

    Posted 23 Jun 2007 #

  39. Phillip wrote:

    Hi friends,
    If people click my link they come to a paypall account with balance in USD. What should I change in the script in order that people see EUR mentioned (well, I live in Europe so EUR would be more convenient)?
    Who can help me? –> ghostwriter2006(at)gmail.com

    Posted 24 Jun 2007 #

  40. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Hi Philip,

    Thanks for asking. Currencies can’t be changed from the Options panel of the plugin right now. But that setting will be added in the next release of the plugin in a couple of weeks time.

    Posted 24 Jun 2007 #

  41. David wrote:

    Hey, Just wanted to say thanks for this wonderful plugin. I first saw a similar kind of plugin at JohnChow and Im very happy to be able to have a rather similar one :)

    http://www.drett.com

    Posted 24 Jun 2007 #

  42. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Thanks David.
    Its this plugin that John Chow uses on his blog… its the “same” plugin.

    Posted 24 Jun 2007 #

  43. newscoma wrote:

    Does this only work for wordpress.org sites. I want to use this but I’m wondering if I need to upgrade.
    Having a bit of a time with it.

    Posted 25 Jun 2007 #

  44. kavita wrote:

    Hi
    Nice tip.
    Can You give similar plugin for blogger also.

    Posted 27 Jun 2007 #

  45. ravi wrote:

    Hi ,
    I am itching to get this beer icon for my blog with blogspot.Please give HTML

    Posted 27 Jun 2007 #

  46. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Hi Kavita & Ravi,

    My plugin won’t work with blogspot. But you can create your own PayPal code from within the PayPal admin panel and add it to your blogspot template.

    Posted 28 Jun 2007 #

  47. Mike Dammann wrote:

    Please let me have my own version. I prefer doing Jager shots ;)

    Posted 28 Jun 2007 #

  48. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Hi Mike,

    1. Download the plugin from above.

    2. Replace icon_beer.gif and beer.gif with your own Jager shot pictures. Name the smaller jager image as icon_beer.gif and the bigger one as beer.gif (don’t worry if the image file name is same.)

    3. Upload the plugin with your pictures and activate it. And then from “Options > Buy me a Beer” panel give them whatever title you want to. You can easily title them “Buy me a Jager Shot.”

    Posted 28 Jun 2007 #

  49. aryst wrote:

    Thank you for the useful plugin…thanks S.M for me…anyway, I’ll buy you a beer…Is there one dollar beer? I don’t have much of PayPal money..I hope you accept it…keep on blogging man…

    Posted 01 Jul 2007 #

  50. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Thanks aryst for your comments.
    I haven’t set any price for the beer. You can pay any amount you wish.

    Posted 02 Jul 2007 #

  51. Timothy Haroutunian wrote:

    You are a genius for making this plugin …I just added it so no one has bought me anything yet, but it still is a sweet idea. I can’t wait till my first beer comes in. :)

    Posted 03 Jul 2007 #

  52. Gaje Master wrote:

    I bought you a beer. Well, a one dollar long neck anyways. Thanks for the great tips.

    Posted 04 Jul 2007 #

  53. Gerri wrote:

    Hi,
    any idea if there is a blogger version of this plugin?
    gerri

    Posted 04 Jul 2007 #

  54. khairul wrote:

    thanks for this great plugins.

    Posted 05 Jul 2007 #

  55. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Gerri: For blogger, create a PayPal donation link from your PayPal account and then add that link to your blogger template. No one has come up with a plugin that works with blogger till now. So you will need to manually edit your blogger template. That is the only way. If you know HTML - this is not that hard.

    Posted 05 Jul 2007 #

  56. ashwin wrote:

    hey, Im having problems with the image of the beer icons appearing in the sidebar and under the posts. Can you help?

    Posted 08 Jul 2007 #

  57. Tim wrote:

    Quick Question.

    How do I get rid of the line around the cup of coffee graphics?

    Thanks,
    T

    Posted 09 Jul 2007 #

  58. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Ashwin: Could you please let me know a few more details? Point me to your blog where the error is appearing… Let me know if you use a Unix or Windows based server…

    Tim: Seems like you have a CSS setting that adds a border around all the hyper linked images by default. You’ll need to change your CSS settings.

    Posted 09 Jul 2007 #

  59. ashwin wrote:

    my site is www.ashwinkhanna.com

    As you can see the beer icons dont appear. The writing appears but the images are just crossed off. See for yourself by clicking the link.
    Thanks

    Posted 09 Jul 2007 #

  60. ashwin wrote:

    im using bluehost by the way.

    Posted 09 Jul 2007 #

  61. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Ashwin: couldn’t find the usage of the plugin on your blog… Maybe you haven’t uploaded and installed the plugin properly…?

    Posted 10 Jul 2007 #

  62. Sabine wrote:

    Thank you very much for your work! I always wanted people to buy me a beer, now i can invite them to do it on my blog!

    Posted 10 Jul 2007 #

  63. ashwin wrote:

    ok its up now. As you can see the images dont appear.

    Posted 10 Jul 2007 #

  64. ashwin wrote:

    For sidebar (shows the bigger image):

    For posts and page content (shows the smaller icon image):

    What template do i put this in?

    Posted 10 Jul 2007 #

  65. Chris wrote:

    Hi, I have the plugin installed and working. However, there is an issue with my theme and the plugin. I’d rather not change the theme just for the plugin. Any ideas?

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  66. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Ashwin: You will need to change the chmod for your “buy me beer” directory and the images in it. Just change the chmod to 744 - this will make the images readable by everyone. You won’t have to make any changes to your template. (Right now, the direct image link on your server is giving a 403 permission denied error. Setting the chmod to 744 should rectify that.)

    Chris: What is the issue between your theme and the plugin? A few details would be helpful. Most likely, the issue should be solved if you directly use the beer plugin tags in your template. Read the “Advanced Usage” section in the above blog post.

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  67. ashwin wrote:

    so when you say change the chmod, do you mean change the permissions??

    Can you give me a step by step guide cos i cant do it! Ive tried so many times but nothing!!!

    Thanks alot. If this works, i think I will owe you 5 or 6 beers. Very expensive beers also!

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  68. Mike Chapel wrote:

    I have installed without problem de pluging. All goes well….except the size of the image of beer. At my blog with my style, the image is deformed.

    I have tryed to change at file buy-me-beer.php the line with:

    $additional_content .= “”;

    Delimiting height and widht but it goes not :(

    Any solution?

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  69. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Ashwin: Yes - by chmod I mean changing permission. You usually do this through your ftp program. I use FireFTP - which is a free firefox add-on that works as a FTP software program. In that software, I connect to my web host server (with the appropriate username password) - go to the folder - right click and go to Properties. There they have an option to change the chmod.

    It may not be the same for other FTP softwares - but it shouldn’t be too different either. Right click on the appropriate folder and you should find an option.

    If you need more help, simply email me outside of this comment section. You can find the contact link at the top of this blog.

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  70. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Mike: I went through your css file. You have all your paragraph images set to 100% width.

    Easy way to rectify the situation is edit your css file. Just find ‘p img’ and delete ‘max-width: 100%; ‘ from under it.

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  71. Mike Chapel wrote:

    Doesn’t be better change or delimited this plugin? Because the “share-this” plugin have a gif image and I have not problem with it.

    Posted 11 Jul 2007 #

  72. Gaje Master wrote:

    I am going to give you a back link from my blog to this post. I wanted to tell more people about it and where the idea came from. I think that it is a wonderful idea and I have added it to my blog. Thanks for everything. The post on this should be up by the end of the day.

    Posted 12 Jul 2007 #

  73. Mike Chapel wrote:

    I have changed a_?p imga_T and delete a_?max-width: 100%; and it goes not.

    The problem that i have is not at CSS . It must be a code that delimited the image to a exactly size, and not only to a column.

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  74. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Mike: Your problem is CSS based. I just went to your CSS file again and found that max-width hasn’t been removed. Go verify it for yourself.

    You’ve also added a buymebeer class around the beer plugin text. But your CSS file doesn’t have any buymebeer class in it. You have to first create the class in the CSS file then call it.

    Fix your CSS file - or ask your programmer to fix it for you and the beer buttons will show up correctly.

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  75. Mike Chapel wrote:

    Dear Ankesh,

    thanks for your responses

    I changed CSS deleting image width, but it doesn’t happen anything. The image was enlarged too.

    The problem must be in another site.

    In this moment, the plugin and the CSS file is like original.

    I understand your answers, but i really changed (deleted):
    a_?p imga_T and delete a_?max-width: 100%; a_?

    It goes really equal as before the change.

    I have compared the plugin share-this, that have an icon below the beer. And this icon don’t change its sice, because in the plugin code is all defined. This in my opinion would be the best solution for your plugin because everybody without changing CSS (not all people knows how do it) could directly include it.

    Again a lot of thanks for your plugin and your interest to answering me.Best regards from Spain

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  76. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Mike: If you changed the CSS file, then there may have been a problem in uploading the new CSS file. Because it hasn’t been updated. You can open your CSS file in the browser and check it out for yourself.

    The only reason the width for images isn’t mentioned in the plugin itself is because it allows people to use other images if they want to too. For eg: I know others have modified the plugin to say “Buy me a Chai” and “Buy me a martini” just by replacing the beer icon with their own images. Having a fixed width for images would spoil that. So having no fixed width is a better option. It doesn’t lock people in and offers them more flexibility to modify the plugin.

    The best option is for you to edit your CSS file. Ask your programmer or WP host why you couldn’t edit it.

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  77. rai wrote:

    Thanks for the nice plugin!

    however, I want to put spaces before and after the buy-me-a-beer link. how do I do that?

    thanks!

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  78. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Rai: Thanks for asking. You could always use the advanced tag for the plugin in your theme.

    < ?php buymebeer_content(); ?>

    (Remove the space right after “< " for it to work.)

    That tag shows the beer plugin. You can simply place the spaces around that tag and have the look that you want.

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  79. Mike Chapel wrote:

    ok, i have do changes at CSS.

    At first i deleted max-width

    Then I created a buymeabeer class with this dates:

    padding-left: 50px;
    height: 16px;
    width: 50%

    But at Mozilla Firefox i don’t see the changes, and at Explorer i see the changes, bit the image expands gain over the size.

    cry cry cry cry cry

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  80. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Mike: Why give width as 50% in your buymebeer class? Leave the width out and the image should show up properly.

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  81. Mike Chapel wrote:

    sorry, but not…see you it…i change it now

    Posted 13 Jul 2007 #

  82. rai wrote:

    Hello Ankesh Kothari,

    Thanks for the reply and it worked for me! :D

    thanks!

    Posted 14 Jul 2007 #

  83. MT Herald Dot Com wrote:

    Thanx for this great plug-in, Anki. You can see it in action at my blog.

    Posted 14 Jul 2007 #

  84. Aldwin wrote:

    I just put it up in my blog, its a great plug-in. Thanks for it, I bought you a beer ;)

    Posted 14 Jul 2007 #

  85. Dan wrote:

    Nice plugin. Learned about it on John Chow’s blog.

    I changed it to “soda” rather than beer, though.

    However, I am having an issue with the plugin. When the plugin is activated, it affects my “Write Post” page. The area where you enter your post is pushed off into the right sidebar. If I deactivate the plugin, the “Write Post” page appears normally.

    Any ideas what may be causing that issue?

    Posted 15 Jul 2007 #

  86. Marisa Duma wrote:

    it worked perfectly

    thanks!

    Posted 16 Jul 2007 #

  87. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Dan: Not sure why you’re having such a problem. Haven’t heard of anyone else have the problem. Is your WP version the latest one?

    Posted 16 Jul 2007 #

  88. Dan wrote:

    I’m using WordPress version 2.2.1.

    Posted 18 Jul 2007 #

  89. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Dan: I sincerely have no idea why the “Write Post” page comes distorted for you. A beer plugin feature is placed on that page - which allows you to disable showing the beer link from under your particular post. But its always worked before without distorting any pages…

    Posted 18 Jul 2007 #

  90. Michelle Gartner wrote:

    Great plug in- I see so far (unless I am mistaken) it does not work with blogger… I was hoping to change one from beer to legos. Those things are expensive and my son has been having me do a lego blog for him. I thought maybe he could make some lego $$$ by using the plug in. I might see what i can do direct on paypal though. My son’s site is Eikki’s Build It Thanks for the info. -Michelle Smart not Cheap

    Posted 20 Jul 2007 #

  91. Review Boss wrote:

    Hi,

    Great plugin Kotari,

    Can you add code encryption feature? The PP email isn ‘t encrypted…this wll result in tons of SPAM in my PP email :(
    RB
    PS: Adding styling elements is another good idea :)

    Posted 21 Jul 2007 #

  92. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Michelle: Thanks for commenting. You are right - this plugin only works in WordPress. You may want to login to PayPal and build your own code for blogger…

    Review Boss: We just don’t have a lot of time to add the encryption feature to the plugin. But you or some one else can take that up - and modify the plugin. (For the record: I haven’t received a single spam email on my PayPal email address that is shown on this blog yet.)

    Posted 21 Jul 2007 #

  93. Betty wrote:

    I just want to say THANK YOU FOR A GREAT PLUGIN! I have installed it and it looks great. I adjusted it to “Buy me an icecream”:)))… I can’t wait to see it in action!!

    kind regards

    Posted 26 Jul 2007 #

  94. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    People who are subscribed to comments: Buy Me a Beer plugin has been updated to version 1.4. You can now select your currency.

    Posted 26 Jul 2007 #

  95. Tapedeck wrote:

    @Ankesh

    It doesn’t work to change currency, after saving the input box for currency is empty again =(

    So I were redirect to the USD Page =/

    Posted 27 Jul 2007 #

  96. Tapedeck wrote:

    sry, i forgot: i try it with Euro

    Posted 27 Jul 2007 #

  97. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Tapedeck: Thanks for commenting. Can you please download and try again. There seemed to be a problem with updating the plugin. But its been rectified.

    Posted 27 Jul 2007 #

  98. Tim Mugayi wrote:

    Ok great plugin, this may sound like its going off topic, but simply had to ask. Does this donation stuff really work, I feel it makes sense to have buttons one such opensource sites, but general blogs feel it doesn’t really do well not sure though any insights on this would be great.

    Posted 27 Jul 2007 #

  99. Tapedeck wrote:

    @Ankesh
    Working fine now =) When there’s some money on my PayPal Account I buy you a beer ;)

    Posted 28 Jul 2007 #

  100. Lair wrote:

    Thanks for this plugin and the explanation associated with it. My blog/site is now beerware, too :-)
    I’ll forward you my first beer !

    Posted 29 Jul 2007 #

  101. adsensetips wrote:

    I cana_Tt seen to get this plug in to work. Is it working with wordpress 2.21?

    When I click the link of my blog to buy a beer,it notice that “Data does not match input character set or default encoding. For more information, please contact the merchant.

    Please Tell me how to use it !

    Posted 29 Jul 2007 #

  102. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    adsensetips: I just checked your blog and the plugin seemed to work over there. I clicked on the link and it took me to PayPal fine. Not sure why you are seeing any error.

    Posted 29 Jul 2007 #

  103. Leucome wrote:

    I tried it and the picture was not visible… I take a look to the page source in the browser to see the picture url was C:\appache ect… not http://myurl…

    After i modded the plugins to point to my images forlder and put beer.gif in it.

    get_settings(’siteurl’) get the file url on server not the http url

    Posted 30 Jul 2007 #

  104. jason wrote:

    hi.. using wordpress v 2.xx and just wondering how does it works ?
    ald uploaded the file but unable to c the icon in my page
    as mnentioned earlier, we adv to give permission on the folder (which i did) still to no avail
    i read about chmod.. can i know what is that and from where i can find it ?
    thanks

    Posted 30 Jul 2007 #

  105. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Jason: You normally won’t have to chmod anything. The default plugins directory chmod works well with all blogs except a few handful.

    The installation instructions are given in the blog post above. After uploading the plugin in the appropriate directory, you will have to go to your “Plugins” tab in the WP admin panel and activate it. Then only will the plugin work. After activating the plugin, simply go to the “Options” tab to choose your icon and currency and other such features.

    Posted 30 Jul 2007 #

  106. Andy Bargery wrote:

    Great little plugin, thanks. The first few coffees I receive are going straight to you!

    Cheers,
    Andy

    Posted 30 Jul 2007 #

  107. thien wrote:

    great lil plugin, works great,, thanks

    Posted 31 Jul 2007 #

  108. a?" NiceFace wrote:

    HI MAN!, I FOUND A SERIUS ERROR IN THE PLUGIN.

    apparently plugin in sidebar works of wonder, but when I use in my post the line “?php buymebeer_content(); ” it does not work. The problem is that in the file “buy_me_a_beer.php” in the function “content_display()” $paypal_contentlink this badly written.

    Posted 01 Aug 2007 #

  109. Michael Kwan wrote:

    I’m using Buy Me a Beer 1.3 and it seems to automatically place a border around the beer mug picture. How do I remove this? To my knowledge, hyperlinked images on my site do not automatically come with borders (never had this issue with any other pictures), so that doesn’t appear to be the solution. Also, how do I go about changing the image to something else?

    Posted 02 Aug 2007 #

  110. Michael Kwan wrote:

    Is this fixed in the new version of the plug-in?

    Posted 02 Aug 2007 #

  111. Christopher wrote:

    Hi, thanks for the pluging I am using the most recent version of wordpress. It installed easily and seems to be working fine.

    I installed it here:
    http://plseducation.com/wordpress/

    Could you tell me how to install it to my normal webpages? I’d love to add it to my template.

    Posted 02 Aug 2007 #

  112. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Michael: The plugin does not add a border around images. Many blogs are using it without any border around the images. You may want to check your CSS file.

    Christopher: Thanks for using the plugin. This is a WordPress plugin only. It can’t be added to other templates. But you can login to your PayPal account and create a donation link that you can then add to your template.

    Posted 02 Aug 2007 #

  113. Indie wrote:

    I get a problem that a few people seem to be getting, and its that I can’t see the image, the address for the image is e:\domains\p\picturesandwords.co.uk\user\htdocs\etc..
    which i don’t understand, could anyone help me?

    Posted 02 Aug 2007 #

  114. jackee wrote:

    actrative to people they write buy me a beer instead of Donate Money

    Posted 03 Aug 2007 #

  115. Debo Hobo wrote:

    Thanks for the plugin. I bought you a beer today. Hey a linkback would be nice.

    Thanks:)

    Posted 05 Aug 2007 #

  116. Suzanne wrote:

    Hey, great tip, I was wondering where people got this from! I’ll bookmark your site so I can keep visiting!

    Posted 06 Aug 2007 #

  117. Blogtantra.com wrote:

    thanks for the plugins dude. i was in need of this.

    Posted 10 Aug 2007 #

  118. Personal Development for the Book Smart wrote:

    Hi, I’m having problems with the plugin for post titles with apostrophes for eg ’s

    The resulting string will have %E2%80%99s instead of ’s and when you arrive at the paypal page, there is an error msg “Data does not match input character set or default encoding. For more information, please contact the merchant.”

    Posted 15 Aug 2007 #

  119. Stephen Cronin wrote:

    Hi Great idea - I’m going to check it out.

    One issue with this page though: In your Advanced Usage section above, the code doesn’t show up (in Firefox). I managed to get it by viewing the source. I guess the php is being interpreted? Although I would have thought the plugin would appear if it was. Anyway, Thanks!

    Posted 16 Aug 2007 #

  120. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Stephen: Thanks. Not sure why the code disappeared from the post above… it was showing before. Anyways, I’ve added it again. Hopefully, it won’t disappear this time.

    Personal Development: Thanks for bringing the apostrophe error to my notice. I’ll see if it can be fixed during the next update.

    Posted 16 Aug 2007 #

  121. Additional Wordpress Plugin List of MT Herald | MT Herald Dot Com wrote:

    […] This plugin allows your blog visitors to make a donation for your work (buy you a beer/coffee) by sending you money through PayPal. This plugin’s author, Ankesh Kothari, has a past experience that shows him asking people to donate money by giving them a specific reason increases donations by 200% […]

    Posted 16 Aug 2007 #

  122. Additional Wordpress Plugin List of MT Herald | MT Herald Dot Com wrote:

    […] maker of Buy-Me-a-Beer plugin adds custom footers […]

    Posted 16 Aug 2007 #

  123. AB wrote:

    I’m using Dreamhost with Wordpress. Is there some reason why the images don’t work, and is there a way to fix that? The words show up with an indented border and a big red X for the image.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 #

  124. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    AB: My host is dreamhost too. I’ve not had any sort of image problems yet… You’ll have to tell me a bit more about your problem before I can solve it. But its not a dreamhost problem.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 #

  125. Stephen Cronin wrote:

    Hi guys, great plugin!

    The one problem I have is that I want the sidebar widget to only appear for selected posts (you can do this for the post body, but not the sidebar).

    I’ve created a simple hack so the sidebar only appears for those post which have been set to display=yes in the edit post page. Full details can be found on a post I’ve just written about the hack.

    Would you guys please consider adding something like this to a future version? Apart from that, it’s great!

    Posted 18 Aug 2007 #

  126. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Stephen: Thanks for making the excellent hack for the beer plugin. Because of a few other projects, I wasn’t going to spend time on updating the beer plugin soon. But will see what I can do. Especially as you have done all the work.

    Thanks a lot!

    Posted 19 Aug 2007 #

  127. Chrissy wrote:

    Love it! Easy to install and set up - Thanks!!

    Posted 19 Aug 2007 #

  128. Heather B wrote:

    This is a great plugin… I was wondering though, is there any way to show how many beers/coffee’s have been purchased for us on our blog for visitors to see?

    Posted 20 Aug 2007 #

  129. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Heather: Thanks for asking. Not at this moment. It would complicate the simplicity of the plugin a bit (as I would have to add a PayPal IPN support that checks if the transaction went through).

    But you can easily upload a guest book or comment script and make that as the thank you page where people are forwarded to after they’ve bought you a beer / coffee. And there - they can add their websites to the list - and you can keep a count.

    Posted 20 Aug 2007 #

  130. Heather B wrote:

    Thanks :) I just think it would be cool to have in the sidebar :)

    Posted 21 Aug 2007 #

  131. Mark wrote:

    Ankesh,

    How can I add an empty line above buy me a beer to separate it from my google ads? I am not sure how to explain it but if you look at any one of my posts at the bottom, you will see there is no space. I am not sure if I can add a line between the two by inserting a line into the plugin or if I need to code it?

    Mark

    Posted 25 Aug 2007 #

  132. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Mark: When I saw your blog - the beer link did leave a line after the Adsense code. However, if you want to leave more lines, you will have to edit the theme manually.

    Read the above post in its entirety - it gives the instructions. Read under the “Advanced Usage”. You will have to paste the buymeabeer_content php code right under a br tag in your theme.

    Posted 26 Aug 2007 #

  133. Jill r wrote:

    Heya,

    How do you make it so you can remove plugin from your homepage but keep it your individual posts?

    With my current posts listed on the homepage, the homepage is just full of beer pictures and looks overloaded.

    Posted 26 Aug 2007 #

  134. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Jill: You will have to manually edit your theme pages. And add the buymeabeer_content php code in your single post file. (Read the Advanced Usage instructions in the post above.)

    Posted 26 Aug 2007 #

  135. Matt Propst wrote:

    I really like this plugin, but I’m feel more inclined to use the buy me coffee than beer. However even if i have the options set for coffee if you click the link the paypal description says “Buy Me a Beer for post_title_here” how do i change the code so that once i’m at the paypal page it says buy me a coffee?

    Thanks!

    Posted 26 Aug 2007 #

  136. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Matt: If you select coffee option in the plugin, your PayPal page should have coffee on it - not beer. I just checked your blog and the plugin seems to be working fine there. The PayPal page does have coffee on it…

    Posted 27 Aug 2007 #

  137. jaren wrote:

    wow thanks for the info. I downloaded this plugin and had no problems whatsoever… now all I need is someone to buy me coffee :)

    Posted 29 Aug 2007 #

  138. Kirsten Richards wrote:

    Thanks, Ankesh, for the great plugin! I installed it on a friend’s blog. Her sneaky puppy got the admin password and took over her blog. The puppy changed the “beer” to a “bone” and has taken begging to a whole new level for dogs.

    Robin’s Nest Blog

    If “Buy me a fish” shows up on my blog, I’ll know my friend’s puppy has been coaching my cat!

    Posted 30 Aug 2007 #

  139. Terri wrote:

    I changed your plugin just a bit. When you put the plugin into the singlepost page and turn the plugin off on all posts so it just shows up on the single page & not on homepage of the list of posts, well on the paypal site it displays “Buy me Beer for title of post” even if you have cafe selected on the options page. I fixed it by going into the code and changing: empty($options[’contentname’])) $options[’contentname’] = “Buy Me a Beer”; to: empty($options[’contentname’])) $options[’contentname’] = “Buy Me a Coffee”; and line: ($options[’contentname’])) $options[’contentname’] = “Buy Me a Beer”; to: [($options[’contentname’])) $options[’contentname’] = “Buy Me a Coffee”; just change the “beer” to whatever on both lines. While i was in there I decided to add a bit to that “buy me beer for “your post title here” line to add a “-” after for. if u want to change this go to this line: [’contentname’]).”+for+”.str_replace(” “,”+”,$post- and add a space then add - sign after the
    +for, but befor the last + sign like this: [’contentname’]).”+for - +”.str_replace(” “,”+”,$post- there are two of these lines change them both to whatever.
    :) thank you for a great plugin!

    Posted 31 Aug 2007 #

  140. Rick Yuen wrote:

    Awesome plug-in. Thanks again. I just wished I had it sooner than later because it would have made some money faster.

    Posted 31 Aug 2007 #

  141. Cuckee wrote:

    Great effort on the plug in. I have installed it at my site and shall buy you a beer soon.

    Posted 01 Sep 2007 #

  142. Rob wrote:

    Great plugin. One question though.

    I’ve added the plugin to display on all of my content pages, but…

    How do I add some vertical spacing around the Buy Me A Beer space?

    I know CSS quite well, but I don’t know PHP. I’m not sure where to edit the file to make it work.

    Help!

    Posted 04 Sep 2007 #

  143. F1JKJ wrote:

    Great idea, all is in the wording. By the way, how many “beers” do you earn here ?

    Posted 05 Sep 2007 #

  144. Barb wrote:

    I’m so excited to have this plugin on my site! However, the picture of the coffee cup is coming out really large and even pixelated. How can I make it smaller, like your beer mug above?

    Posted 06 Sep 2007 #

  145. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Barb: Not sure what the problem is. I visited your blog and couldn’t find the plugin in action… but it seems like a CSS problem to me from what you say. Can’t help you further without seeing the plugin in action.

    Posted 06 Sep 2007 #

  146. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Rob: Thanks for asking. You don’t need to edit the plugin file. Just copy the code provided in the post above under “Advanced Usage” subhead. And use that code in your theme. Place “br” tag above or below the plugin code where you want to leave the vertical spacing.

    F1JKJ: While I don’t reveal my real financial numbers, quite a few people have bought me or my programmer a beer from this blog. This plugin earns me 5-6 times as much money as Google Adsense.

    Posted 06 Sep 2007 #

  147. elle wrote:

    hi
    tried this today and it looks great. one thing bothers me though. Is there any way to hide your email address as anyone can hold their cursor over the buy me a beer link and see the email address that it goes too.

    not so good for spam and email harvesting or whatever its called

    I would really like to use this but dont want my email being so visible

    thanks

    Posted 07 Sep 2007 #

  148. Everyday Mommy wrote:

    Love your plugin! Was even able to change the icon to a little tip jar. Works great!

    Posted 08 Sep 2007 #

  149. hiutopor wrote:

    Hi

    Very interesting information! Thanks!

    G’night

    Posted 15 Sep 2007 #

  150. Mayooresan wrote:

    Thanks, it’s fantastic!!!!

    Posted 16 Sep 2007 #

  151. Soni wrote:

    Got a bug for you.

    I am using WP 2.2.1 and with your plugin activated, my widgets wouldn’t configure. I could hover over the configure icons, but clicking them did nothing.

    Deactivating your plugin got my configuration controls back, but I was hoping you could fix this so I could use your plugin and configure my widgets. I even tried it using the default theme, thinking it might be theme related, but no go. I can either have your plugin on or configure my widgets, but not both.

    I’m going to try configuring them, then turning your plugin back on. But it’s an annoying workaround to have to remember, and I’m not sure if it will work or not. Any thoughts?

    Posted 18 Sep 2007 #

  152. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Soni: Thanks for reporting. This blog uses WP 2.2.1 too - and hasn’t had any problems. Not sure why you’re having the problem. Haven’t had some one else report the problem yet… so not sure why you’re facing the error. I’ll create a new test blog and see if I can replicate the error. But it may well be some other error. I think that this plugin may be clashing with another plugin you have installed. If that is the case, you’ll have to email me your list of all the plugins you have installed. And then I can try to find the problem.

    Posted 18 Sep 2007 #

  153. PaymentBlogger wrote:

    The complete list of dosh plugins…

    Blogs are the hardest sites to monetize, but yet when it comes to wordpress there is always an automated solution for you In today’s post we will write about the top wordpress plugins that you may use in order to earn money from your wordpress b…

    Posted 21 Sep 2007 #

  154. papayamilkshake wrote:

    Hi,I can’t get the function working :( It kept giving me a function undefined for the php function even I’ve installed and activate the plugin. Any advise?Thanks!papayamilkshakeLoadRunner TnT

    Posted 23 Sep 2007 #

  155. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    papayamilkshake: I can’t say what is wrong unless I see the plugin in action on your blog. Try un-installing and re-installing the plugin again - maybe that’ll work. Or else, let me know when the plugin is activated so that I can see what the error is.

    Posted 24 Sep 2007 #

  156. boring bro wrote:

    I think I like this plug-ins but I don’t want beer .. Coz it is not good for health and my religions avoid it..

    Posted 29 Sep 2007 #

  157. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Boring Bro: So then simply use the coffee option. Or make your own hack and replace the beer icon with anything else you want.

    Posted 29 Sep 2007 #

  158. Network Geek wrote:

    Is it okay to take the code for this and extend it? Naturally, I’ll still give credit where credit is due. I just thought it might be nice to add a few more features to this already cool plugin!

    Posted 29 Sep 2007 #

  159. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Network Geek: Thanks for asking. If its for your own personal use, feel free to make the changes. But if you want to distribute the plugin after the changes, then let me know more about your idea.

    Posted 29 Sep 2007 #

  160. Network Geek wrote:

    Well, my idea was to add more than just two options, coffee or beer, and, possibly, make it so you could turn it on by post, not just “all or nothing”.

    Posted 30 Sep 2007 #

  161. Kelly wrote:

    I changed the graphic to BUY ME A CIGARETTE! lol Just kidding! Give me fruit juice anytime. (At this moment, my wordpress blog is messy so don’t even visit!) Thanks for the plugin!

    Posted 30 Sep 2007 #

  162. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Network Geek: Thanks for thinking about improving this plugin. Right now, its not “all or nothing” either. You can select from your “Write” page whether you want to show the beer/coffee plugin for that particular post or page. There should be an option in the right hand column of your Write tab.

    Changing the beer or coffee is very simple. You just replace the coffee images with any other images you want. In fact, many people have created their own versions for their own blogs - I’ve come across - Buy me a Budlite - Buy Me Starbucks - Buy me Milk - Buy me Candy - Buy me Pizza. People have made lots of variations. Feel free to make your own variation too.

    Posted 01 Oct 2007 #

  163. Funny Guy wrote:

    It works fine with Wordpress 2.3. Thanks

    Posted 06 Oct 2007 #

  164. SHAKAAAAA wrote:

    Buy Me A Beer Plugin Doesn’t Work With Wordpress…

    When I found out that the Buy Me A Beer Plugin doesn’t work with Wordpress.com blogs as it is not a widget… I was disappointed at first… then I realized I have a blog and a PayPal account… so I could easily setup my own Shaka Be…

    Posted 08 Oct 2007 #

  165. Jacob Sikais wrote:

    A great idea and plugin… unfortunately we wordpress.com users can’t use it… how I wish it was a widget… oh well… I have taken the liberty to set up my own Beer Fund… and if ever gets released in widget form that wordpress.com blogs can use… then hit me up!

    Posted 08 Oct 2007 #

  166. Alfred wrote:

    haha nice plugin bro, added to my blog too

    Posted 15 Oct 2007 #

  167. Web Site Promotion wrote:

    Great site keep up the good work

    Posted 22 Oct 2007 #

  168. TwisterMc wrote:

    This plugin causes major display issues on the Write screen in Wordpress. Can you double check the code? Display’s fine in Firefox, but not in Safari on the Write page.

    Posted 28 Oct 2007 #

  169. buy buy buy wrote:

    It’s a great idea for a plug in but you should update with more features and a how to guide. Really it could be very popular.

    Posted 29 Oct 2007 #

  170. David wrote:

    Thanks you ! very usefull plugin !

    Posted 29 Oct 2007 #

  171. Jose Arenado wrote:

    I love this plugin so much that I’ve started writing both a joomla module, an Expression Engine module and I have a client that would love to have this for Drupal. I’ve also designed a few new coffee and cocktail icons for use in WP, et al. Would you be interested in a patch that added a choice between several different images? That is, if I make this plugin theme-able on the admin page? Let me know. Great work! One of the most clever revenue generating plugins out there!

    Posted 06 Nov 2007 #

  172. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Jose: Thanks for your kind words. I’m pretty sure a Drupal version of this plugin is available. Some one had created it some time back. So you may want to search for it and save some time.

    As for the patch - its very easy to add 12 different icons to the plugin. But I kept it to 2 on purpose - as to not to overwhelm people with choices. I think its been a good idea overall. But if you do write an article on how anyone can customize their icon - I’ll link to it. (Its easy to do - just replace the icon image files with your images - but don’t change the name.)

    Posted 06 Nov 2007 #

  173. ckowyong wrote:

    excellent!! works flawlessly on my blog!
    thanks for the plugin mate! since installing it about 1 month ago, i’ve already got about 15 donations! i’ll be buying you a pitcher in a bit!! :O)

    Posted 06 Nov 2007 #

  174. Kirk M wrote:

    My host (Bluehost) is rapidly switching all their servers to PHP 5 and eliminating support for PHP 4 entirely without notification. Luckily I havena_Tt been switched yet.
    Is AIOSEO compatible with PHP 5? Ia_Tm just trying to eliminate any problems before the switch.

    Great plugin BTW.

    Posted 10 Nov 2007 #

  175. Kirk M wrote:

    I meant to say is “Buy Me a Beer” compatible with PHP 5?

    Sorry about that.

    Posted 10 Nov 2007 #

  176. Ankesh Kothari wrote:

    Kirk: Yes it is.

    Posted 12 Nov 2007 #

  177. david wrote:

    hey ankesh

    great plugin! i like it.

    i’m having the same problem as a few other people though. the images don’t show up in my sidebar. i’m on a windows server, and everything is there. i even tried directly linking to the image, which works.

    any ideas?

    cheers

    david
    www.davidsmeaton.com

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 #

  178. Francesco Scinico wrote:

    this plugin is not working properly in IE. if you check my site www.whatmattersinlife.com in IE, you’ll notice that the coffee mug overlaps the text that is supposed to be underneath it.

    also, if i display the text at the bottom of my post, and my post ends with a table, the BMaB text does not start underneath the table, but to the right of the table.

    thank you.

    Posted 17 Nov 2007 #

  179. theFedSpot.com wrote:

    Just got it up and running! great plugin!

    Posted 22 Nov 2007 #

  180. O2smedia.com wrote:

    its now on my 2nd site..I love this Plugin!

    Posted 22 Nov 2007 #

  181. Matt wrote:

    Hi, great plugin, still would like people to buy me a coffee though! How do I get the plugin to NOT display on PAGES. I have it displaying on posts and in my sidebar but it also displays on my Pages, which I don’t want. Thanks!

    Posted 23 Nov 2007 #

  182. Matt wrote:

    Um, nevermind, just figured it out. Set the BMAB option on the page editor to NO. doh!

    Posted 23 Nov 2007 #

  183. doktor wrote:

    I haven’t been up to much recently. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me lately. I feel like a bunch of nothing.

    Posted 24 Nov 2007 #

  184. batuhan wrote:

    Hehe good plugins

    Posted 24 Nov 2007 #

  185. Scott Ott wrote:

    As mentioned by a previous commenter, the ‘Write Post’ page layout in Safari is messed up, with everything being pushed to the right side of the page. Is there a work around? Seems like a simple linebreak or div issue…although I’m not smart enough to know that. I deactivate the plugin, and the page displayed just fine. It also looks good in Firefox.
    [Updated Minutes Later…There’s a missing close div tag round about line 180 in buy-me-beer-admin.php. It closes the div class “dbx-content”. I added the close tag and the display on my Write Post page is back to normal. The excitement is palpable.]

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 #

  186. TwisterMc wrote:

    Excellent find Scott. That worked wonders. ;)

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 #

  187. Scott Ott wrote:

    More On #185 Admin layout issue…
    I’m not sure if adding the div close tag caused this problem, but now the text box for the body of my post extends too far to the right, under the right sidebar widgets. I’m digging into the code now to see if I caused that.

    BTW, it would be great to hear from the developer on this issue. Since he seems like a smart guy, and I’m a clown.

    [Update Moments Later: I have moved the close div tag to line 179 of buy-me-beer-admin.php, just above the close fieldset tag. This seems to have resolved the issue.]

    Posted 30 Nov 2007 #

  188. gokhan wrote:

    Just got it up and running! great plugin!

    Posted 06 Dec 2007 #

  189. Aaron wrote:

    Why is’nt there a plugin like this for blooger blogs yet? There should be!!

    Posted 07 Dec 2007 #

  190. Richard Miller (Sparkletack) wrote:

    Love the plugin — I’ve changed the icon and text to invite folks to buy me an Anchor Steam!

    Is there some way to configure the plugin to show an “item” name at the PayPal site?

    Right now I have the plugin set up to work only in the sidebar, and when people land on the PayPal site, the “item” line shows up blank, and it’s confusing to people.

    Thanks …

    Posted 09 Dec 2007 #

  191. tailgatingideas.com wrote:

    Nice plug-in and the fact that my site deals with tailgating and tailgate parties, the beer theme works out perfectly. I placed this plug-in on my site two days ago and have already had three beers bought for me. At this rate my liver will revolt in a week. Thanks for the great plug-in. I should buy you a beer now!

    Posted 17 Dec 2007 #

  192. Les wrote:

    @Scott - great work in tracking down the Safari issue. Thanks.

    Posted 29 Dec 2007 #

  193. Nate wrote:

    You’re doing this all wrong. You need to incorporate a 2 for 1 program. Every two beers donated to someone else’s site, they donate one back to you :)

    Seriously though, I’m not very savvy when it comes to creating plugins so it makes my day when someone with the “know how” puts their skills to great use.

    I’ve added the plug and will share my beer with you, when I get some!

    Nate

    Posted 02 Jan 2008 #

  194. mor10 wrote:

    Hi Ankesh

    Your plugin is great and I’ve been using it for quite a while but when I changed the layout of my site it started acting up something fierce. Basically the image blew up to enormous proportions. It’s clearly a CSS issue, but the img calls in the new layout are identical to the ones in the old so I can’t figure it out.

    So, first off, where in your code is the image defined? Maybe I can hardcode a style into it so I can style the image by itself

    Secondly, is there any way to turn the image off altogether? it doesn’t really work with my design and I’d like to just have the text there anyway.

    Unfortunately I can’t leave the plugin live the way it is now because it looks completely ridiculous so I can’t show you what the problem is.

    mor10

    Posted 02 Jan 2008 #

  195. John Degary wrote:

    Love the plugin a_” Ia_Tve changed the icon and text to invite folks to buy me an Anchor Steam!

    Is there some way to configure the plugin to show an a_?itema_? name at the PayPal site?

    John Degary
    doctors employment australia

    Posted 09 Jan 2008 #

  196. yolac1891 wrote:

    Nice money making plugin. Will try this one out on my new site. Thanks.

    Posted 09 Jan 2008 #

  197. Sarah wrote:

    It is breaking my WP write post/page page and I fixed it by adding a for the Buy Me a Beer fieldsest. It’s only visible when using Safari or iCab. I wrote a post about it.

    Buy Me a Beer plugin bug fix

    Posted 11 Jan 2008 #

  198. Dexter wrote:

    You know what would be great? Having transparent beer images :) Actually, if background isn’t plain white, it doesn’t look very nice :(

    Posted 12 Jan 2008 #

  199. hotel paris nord wrote:

    Thanks! A while I was looking for this plugin…

    Posted 15 Jan 2008 #

  200. mcd wrote:

    This is great! Thanks!

    Posted 18 Jan 2008 #

  201. Gili wrote:

    Hi,

    Nice plugin.
    I want to apply a border around the plugin text as showing in the posts page.
    I added a CSS class to my stylesheet named buymeabeer (currently commented).
    The result is that the the text gets written below the border.
    Any assistance is appreciated.
    Gili

    Posted 20 Jan 2008 #

  202. James wrote:

    Hi,
    Nice plugin. There are a few things that would help make it greater though ;-)
    BUG FIX:
    Page: buy-me-beer.php
    Line: 68
    Current:
    <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="<?php echo $args[’currency’]?>” />
    Should be:
    <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="<?php echo $options[’currency’]?>” />

    Also,
    * are you looking at adding this to the wordpress.org plugin system?
    * anyway of encoding the email address in the $paypal_link? Just thinking about sniffers.
    * an easy way to add new items? Maybe the plugin could just check the directory for images and add them?

    Thanks,
    James
    =-)

    Posted 20 Jan 2008 #

  203. Dexter wrote:

    Hi!

    I just found a way to change Paypal page language when using this great plugin :)

    http://www.a2p.it/wordpress/tech-stuff/tips-and-tricks/change-paypal-language-in-buy-me-a-beer-plugin/

    Would be great to have it inside options panel in next release :)

    Hope it helps :)

    Posted 26 Jan 2008 #

  204. Make Money Online with Small Fish Big Money wrote:

    I have read about the ‘Buy Me a Beer’ plugin a few times, I will definitely consider downloading it and using it as a tool for people to help my site grow. Unless you have a big traffic site, it is not exactly going to convert into big bucks though.

    Thanks for the post,

    Kind Regards,
    Fabien
    Earn Money Online with Small Fish Big Money

    Posted 31 Jan 2008 #

  205. imBuntu wrote:

    Ankesh, Nice to hear that people are asking money for bear. Do not you think is as a new art of begging in beggers community to tap a new market opportunity. (joking)

    Regards
    imBuntu
    Directory Maximizer
    Manual Directory Submission Service

    Posted 01 Feb 2008 #

  206. PABLO wrote:

    wowww
    thanksssssssssss

    Posted 10 Feb 2008 #

  207. Jason wrote:

    Great plugin, thanks!

    Posted 10 Feb 2008 #

  208. Craig wrote:

    Thanks for such a great plugin.

    I used the widget function so it shows in the sidebar. Is there a way to make the text be under the image instead of running to the left of the image?

    Thanks!

    Posted 11 Feb 2008 #

  209. Bloggeritaville wrote:

    This is a great plugin. I write a blog helping new bloggers get set up monetizing their blogs and I’ve done a write up of your plugin there. Cheers and beers!

    Posted 17 Feb 2008 #

  210. Brennr.de wrote:

    Thank you for this great plugin!
    But the plugin has some problems with german “Umlaute” like “A¤, A, A?” (ae, oe, ue). The subject on Paypal is really strange and not readable. :-/

    Posted 18 Feb 2008 #

  211. balootisme wrote:

    i’d use your plugin at my blog.

    thanks a lot mate…cheers..

    Posted 01 Mar 2008 #

  212. Nikolai wrote:

    Thanks for a great plugin. The installation was very simple and it works like a charm. Much appreciated.

    Posted 06 Mar 2008 #

  213. Restaurant Reviews wrote:

    I have been meaning to put one of these widgets on my restaurant review site, asking people to buy me a couple of slaw dogs at my local diner.

    Posted 11 Mar 2008 #

  214. Arnie wrote:

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  215. Aron wrote:

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  216. hristofor wrote:

    Just got it up and running!
    great plugin!

    Posted 23 Mar 2008 #

  217. Nhanghi wrote:

    Thank you !! I was looking for this great plugin !

    Posted 28 Mar 2008 #

  218. Urs wrote:

    Hello why I can’t see the Beer Icon on my Site.

    Thanks for an answer.

    Posted 01 Apr 2008 #

  219. xytheme wrote:

    Great plugin, is it compatible with WP2.5? Gonna try it anyway. Thanks.

    Posted 02 Apr 2008 #

  220. Error about Path wrote:

    The Plugin in version 1.4, running on Windows server and WP 2.5 does give the error already pointed out, that is it takes not the HTTP PATH but the absolute path (hence from the server of the host). This is the reason why the images are not shown.

    Posted 03 Apr 2008 #

  221. Urs wrote:

    Hi how can I modify the Plugin Code from absolute path to Http Path. Thanks for a solution.

    Posted 14 Apr 2008 #

  222. Frisbee Fodder wrote:

    This is an excellent plugin… Nice and easy to customise too, great work. I’ll let you know if I get any beers..

    Posted 15 Apr 2008 #

  223. Golf wrote:

    Hmm…I’m having some issues installing it on Wordpress 2.3.3 on one of my blogs. It could be that I just did something wrong. I will go and try to install in on another blog to see if it was my bad. Is is compatible with 2.3.3 and 2.5 as I’ll be upgrading very soon?

    Posted 16 Apr 2008 #

  224. chornbe wrote:

    I’m having some issues caring.

    Posted 21 Apr 2008 #

  225. BrewClub wrote:

    I’m also interested in trying it out with 2.5X.

    Anyone do it yet with success???

    This is perfect for my beer review site!

    Posted 02 May 2008 #

  226. kelly wrote:

    WP 2.5 doesn’t seem to work on my self-hosted server though…

    Posted 02 May 2008 #

  227. Reefseita wrote:

    “Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around,
    I’d rather lie around. No contest.”
    – Eric Clapton

    —————————————————————————————————-
    http://noereeveskz.easyjournal.com

    Posted 06 May 2008 #

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