Wordpress Plugin: Buy Me A Beer

There are many sites around the internet that have “Donate” buttons on their sites.  While many times these sites offer great content and are no doubt worthy of a donation, it can be few and far between that it happens.  This can be for a variety of reasons, but more than likely, people just don’t know what is a good donation.

The Buy Me A Beer plugin for Wordpress looks to fix that problem.  Studies have shown that sometimes including the power of suggestion can improve your donations by up to 200%!  This plugin places a picture of a beer mug (or coffee mug if you prefer) on your sidebar or at the bottom of each post with a link to donate funds via paypal.  This way you can easily suggest a small amount (such as $3.00 for a beer or $7.00 for a pitcher of beer).

I think this plugin is great and have added it to my sidebar (I think it would get intrusive on each post).  Here is how it looks:

In order to install this plugin, you’ll want to do the normal download the plugin, unzip, and upload it to your FTP client in the plugin folder.  Once this is done, you can add it as a widget to your sidebar, or advanced users can just plop this code where they want it on their sidebar:

<?php buymebeer_sidebar(); ?>

You can also go into options and check a box to add it below each post. 

I have added this to my Best of: Wordpress Plugins list.  If you’ve tried this plugin, I’d love to hear how its working for you!