Donations can be a very effective way of making your forum turn a profit, or at least cover its server costs. This article will guide you through how to start accepting PayPal donations through your MyBB forum using a plugin “Donation Page”.

Note: You can use a more advanced donation plugins (making it possible to hide advertising for specific user groups, automated user group upgrades etc…) though for this article we’ll go through a more commonly used and basic plugin to achieve the possibility of donations.

Step 1: Downloading & uploading the donation module

1. Download the donations page module here: http://mods.mybb.com/view/donation-page (“Download” button on the right sidebar)
2. Login your cPanel control panel and open your file manager, upload donate.php to your root MyBB directory & donationpage.php to your /inc/plugins/ directory

Step 2: Installing & Configuring the donations page

1. Login your MyBB admin control panel & navigate to: Configuration (Top navigation) -> Plugins (Left sidebar navigation)
2. In the list of plugins find the “Donation Page” plugin and click “Install & Activate”
3. Navigate to Configuration -> and find Donation Page Settings
4. Configure the donation page settings to your liking (they should all be self-explanatory), once done scroll down and click “Save Changes”

Step 3: Adding a donate page link

Now that we have installed the donation module we need to create a link for people to see. Depending on the location of where you want this link to be it may slightly differ from below.

1. Login your admin control panel and navigate to: Templates & Style (top navigation) -> Templates (left sidebar navigation)
2. Find the template you use on your forum and click “Expand Templates”
3. Find the “Header” template and click “Expand”
4. Under the “Header” section click “Options -> Full Edit
5. Find where you want to place your donate link and insert the following quote:

<li><a href=”{$mybb->settings[‘bburl’]}/donate.php”>Donate</a></li>

A recommended location is under this code:

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