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Claire directs content marketing and documentation for all products under the WPForms umbrella, including WP Mail SMTP and SendLayer.

Before becoming a professional technical writer, Claire ran several WordPress websites, including a community site for musicians in her local area. She went on to build a successful content agency focusing on website content, SEO, video, and documentation. Her clients included high-profile brands in the tech and media industry.

She also worked as a technical author and technical support specialist for the National Institute of Health Research, part of the NHS.

Claire has produced thousands of high-ranking articles on web hosting, server management, marketing, and WordPress and has contributed to high-profile websites, including Twitter, the Huffington Post, Forbes, and Lifehacker.

How Can I Create a WordPress Form for Free?

How to Create a WordPress Form for Free (3 Options)

Do you need to create WordPress forms for free?

There are many ways to create free online forms. We'll explain the best features to look for: seamless WordPress integration, easy customization, spam protection, and payment integration.

We'll also look closely at the 3 most popular options to see which one is the best fit.

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How do online forms work?

[Answered] How Do Online Forms Work?

Are you wondering how online forms work?

Perhaps you want to know how you set up a form and view the responses?

In this beginner-friendly guide, we'll break down the basics of online forms, focusing on WordPress.

We'll explain how forms collect data and how you can receive it via email or inside your WordPress dashboard.

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10 Best Text to Image AI Tools for 2026 (Free & Paid)

The best text to image AI tools moved fast last year. DALL-E 3 got folded into ChatGPT's newer image model. Stable Diffusion quietly lost ground to FLUX.

New tools like Google's Nano Banana and Ideogram v3 cracked problems (text rendering inside images, true photographic realism) that the older models could not pull off cleanly.

So I spent a few weeks running different prompts through every generator I could get access to, comparing what came out, and reading what the rest of the AI image community had to say about the ones I had not used myself.

This is the list I would hand a friend who asked where to start. 10 tools, free and paid, with what each one is best for. There is a comparison table right after this intro if you only want the short version.

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How to Fix WPForms Not Sending Email to Gmail

WPForms Not Sending Email to Gmail? How to Fix It

Are Gmail users not receiving form notifications from your site? Our support team has noticed that many WPForms customers run into this problem.

Google has always enforced tough anti-spam restrictions, but they're getting even tougher.

In this article, we'll discuss why Gmail users sometimes don't get emails from WPForms. We'll also explain how to stop notifications fro landing to Gmail's spam folder.

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Boxing Day marketing and coupon code ideas

Boxing Day Coupon Code + Marketing Ideas: Boost Seasonal Sales

Thinking of running a Boxing Day sale this year?

Boxing Day is a huge seasonal sale event in the UK. Retailers offer deep discounts and clear stock ready for the New Year.

If you want a piece of the action, learn how to run a Boxing Day sale using coupon codes, email marketing, retargeting, and other useful techniques.

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how to make an online model release form in wordpress

How to Make an Online Model Release Form in WordPress (2025)

Need an easy way to process model release forms? You should try doing this online.

Online model release forms are an easy way to get the consent you need without having to go back and forth in emails, or waste paper on printing documents, and so on. You can simply use WPForms' model release form template to get started.

This template has all the fields you'll need. including a digital signature field to it. Jump in for all the steps!

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New Feature

WPForms Dashboard

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The WPForms Dashboard is a new home screen that opens the moment you click WPForms in your admin menu. Stat cards across the top total up your forms, entries, payments, views, and spam across the whole site.

An Entries widget charts activity over your chosen date range with a per-form table of entries, views, interactions, and conversion rate, and a payments widget totals everything collected once a gateway is connected.

With the Geolocation addon active, Top Locations ranks the countries your visitors come from, and a Suggested Next Steps panel points to features worth turning on.

Nothing to install, as it comes with every plan, including Lite!

New Feature

WPForms QR Code

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Every form now has its own built-in QR code generator, with nothing extra to install or buy.

Open a form’s General settings, choose the page the form lives on or paste its URL, and click Generate QR Code to copy it or download it as a PNG or a print-ready SVG.

Put it on menus, packaging, event badges, or business cards, and every scan opens your form instead of a page that only hands people something to read.

Included with every plan, including Lite; Pro and Elite plans can keep, remove, or replace the WPForms logo in the center with their own.

New Feature

Ranking Field for Surveys & Polls

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The Surveys & Polls addon gains a Ranking field!

Instead of scoring each option separately, respondents drag options (or tap arrow buttons on a phone) into the order they prefer, so one option always has to come first.

WPForms tallies every response into a “Times at #1” count and an average rank for each option, with a chart that makes the winner obvious.

Lay options out as a vertical list or a grid, and use Image Choices or Icon Choices in place of plain text labels.

Integration New Feature Payments

Mercado Pago Addon

Introducing the WPForms Mercado Pago Addon: Card Payments Built for Latin America

The Mercado Pago addon brings on-page card payments built for Latin America to your forms.

Buyers enter their card details into secure, Mercado Pago-hosted fields inside the form, choose an installment plan, and pay in ARS, BRL, CLP, COP, MXN, PEN, or UYU without leaving your page.

An approved charge fires your confirmation, notifications, and integrations at the moment money actually moves, and full or partial refunds can be issued from WPForms » Payments.

WPForms takes no transaction fee, and it works with Quantities, Coupons, multi-page forms, Conversational Forms, Lead Forms, and Form Pages.

AI New Feature

WPForms Analytics

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WPForms 2.0 adds a complete form performance tracking suite inside your WordPress dashboard.

The All Forms page now shows Views, Entries, and Conversion Rate for every form, and each form gets its own analytics dashboard with views, interactions, conversion rate, abandonments, and errors over the last 7, 30, or 90 days or a custom range.

A field-by-field table shows interactions, time spent, errors, and abandonment for every field, so you can see exactly where people give up, and you can set a conversion goal to track progress.

There’s also a built-in AI chat reads your form data and tells you what is working, what is hurting conversions, and what to fix first.