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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)

Seven of the ten tools on this list have shipped a new image model since I last updated it in May. The best text to image AI for most people right now is ChatGPT, because its GPT Image 2.5 model tops both major leaderboards and the free plan lets you try it.

OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5 in September, and Google answered with Nano Banana 2.1 a month later. Microsoft swapped OpenAI's model for its own in Bing Image Creator, and Meta started moving Meta AI onto its new Muse Image model. Midjourney and Ideogram each moved up a full version.

For this update, I re-checked every tool's current model and pricing against vendor pages and the two big public leaderboards. The picks themselves come from the few weeks I spent running different prompts through every generator I could get access to. I also read 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 Payments

Start Your Stripe Subscriptions With a Trial Period

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A Stripe subscription sold through WPForms can now begin with a trial period: the subscriber signs up today, and their first payment waits until the trial is over.

The card is collected and checked at signup, held by Stripe, and charged automatically on the day the trial ends.

The length is a number of days, weeks, months, or years, chosen in the form builder’s Payments tab for each Stripe subscription you sell.

Each trial shows up in WPForms » Payments with a Trialing status until that first payment lands.

Improvement

Weekly Email Summary

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The weekly summary WPForms emails you now opens with stat tiles for entries, views, and spam, each marked with how it moved against the previous week.

Beneath them, a table gives every form its own line, and when the data earns it the headline changes to call out a best week, a milestone, or a form that has gone quiet.

A single button takes you from the email back into WPForms, so the thing worth checking is one click away.

Integration New Feature Payments

Paystack Addon

Introducing the WPForms Paystack Addon: Accept Payments in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya

The Paystack addon brings card, bank transfer, and mobile money payments to your forms for buyers in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya.

Buyers click submit and pay in the Paystack popup in naira, cedis, rand, or Kenyan shillings, with no new field to add to your form.

Bank transfer and mobile money payments are saved as Pending, and WPForms can hold your notification emails until Paystack confirms the payment, then completes the order on its own.

Every Paystack payment shows up in WPForms » Payments, and full refunds can be issued without leaving WordPress.

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.