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Installing the Better Giving Wordpress plugin

How to install the wordpress plugin so that a Better Giving donation form can be embedded on your wordpress site.

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Written by Laira
Updated over 10 months ago
  1. Download the Better Giving Wordpress Plugin (ZIP file).

    SHA256 Checksum: 34f1aa11ab99e691e290b128d11d019cc9f7cb29f14f01f921b03835316880ce

  2. Install the plugin by uploading the ZIP file to your Wordpress server, via the WP-Admin interface.

  3. Activate the Better Giving Donation Form plugin

USING AND CONFIGURING THE BETTER GIVING DONATION FORM SHORTCODE

The shortcode used to insert a Better Giving donation form into your wordpress blocks, pages and/or posts is bg_donation_form.

At a minimum, the following MUST be provided for the shortcode to work correctly and render the donation form: a Nonprofit Account ID. This is the number that was assigned to your nonprofit when you signed up with Better Giving and is unique to it (ex. 121).


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Below is an example of the minimum Better Giving donation form shortcode that would be needed in order to render a working component in Wordpress.

With the minimum code, all optional settings will set to their defaults.

[bg_donation_form id=121]

The following are additional, optional configuration arguments that may be passed to further customize and configure your Donation Form settings and appearance from the default:

NAME

DESCRIPTION

ALLOWED VALUES

EXAMPLE

currentsplitpct

Set a percentage of a to be split to the current account. Donors can still adjust the split from this starting suggested value. Defaults to 50%.

0-100

currentsplitpct=20

splitdisabled

Locks split to current percentage, preventing donors from changing it. This will hide the split slider screen. Defaults to 0.

0 (not disabled) OR 1 (disabled)

splitdisabled=1

showdescription

Show or hide the description text. Defaults to shown.

0 (not shown) OR 1 (shown)

showdescription=0

showtitle

Show or hide the title text. Defaults to shown.

0 (not shown) OR 1 (shown)

showtitle=0

description

Custom description text to show under the title.

description="Custom description..."

title

Custom title text to show at the top of the donation form.

title="Custom title"

methods

Define the payment method tabs to show and their order via a comma separated string.

Valid methods: "stocks", "daf", "stripe" (ie. credit cards), "crypto"

methods="crypto,stripe"

accentprimary

Set the primary accent color to your Nonprofit's brand color.

HEX color 3 or 6 digits (must start with '#')

accentprimary=#dd8943"

accentsecondary

Set the secondary accent color to your Nonprofit's brand color.

HEX color 3 or 6 digits (must start with '#')

accentsecondary="#dd8943"

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