Since WooCommerce 5.5, PayPal Standard will no longer be loaded by default. The official recommendation is using PayPal Payments. Unfortunately, this extension is incompatible with the new Checkout block, that is available since WooCommerce 6.9.
Activating PayPal Standard
Luckily, activating PayPal Standard is pretty straightforward and requires the following steps:
- Installing the Code Snippets plugin
- Adding the following code snippet:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_should_load_paypal_standard', '__return_true' );
Deactivating PayPal Standard
Unfortunately, deactivating PayPal Standard is a bit more complicated and requires the following steps:
- Accessing the database of the site
- Deleting the entry
woocommerce_paypal_settings
fromwp_options