Hamza Shahid

Writer

Expertise

Content marketing
Email marketing
Affiliate marketing
WordPress
SAAS
ERPs

Highlights

Hamza is a Content Writer for the WPForms team at Awesome Motive, where he also contributes to WP Mail SMTP. He holds a BSc in Business Administration and brings a diverse range of experience to the team.

He began his writing career at a creative agency, where Hamza honed his skills in creating blogs, tutorials, eBooks, press releases, and whitepapers. Eager to explore new opportunities, he ventured into freelancing on Fiverr, offering a variety of content services.

His career took a specialized turn when he spent six years in the cybersecurity and ERP industries, managing a portfolio of eight Managed WordPress affiliate sites. This experience gave him a strong foundation in affiliate marketing and SEO.

Joining WPForms in 2023, Hamza now focuses on creating insightful content that helps users get the most out of their WordPress experience. When he’s not behind the screen, Hamza enjoys spending quality time with his cats and exploring beaches across the city.

How to Moderate Guest Posts in WordPress

Do you run a website that depends heavily on guest posts? Ever wondered how you can review those posts readers submit on your form?

It's a fairly common practice for most websites to offer their own composer on the front-end that ultimately leads to a published piece on the site, but the review process is just as important.

That's where the WPForms Post Submissions addon comes in, allowing you to create a form that accepts guest posts, while offering you control on the review process.

Zapier vs Make vs n8n for WordPress Forms: Which Should You Use?

Zapier, Make, and n8n are the three names you'll keep running into when trying to figure out which automation tool is the best option for your WordPress form.

To keep things simple, Zapier bills you for every task a form entry triggers, Make counts operations instead, and n8n costs nothing to run if you host it yourself.

So, which is the best option for you? Well, that depends on what you're trying to achieve with your WordPress form. And that's exactly what I'll be discussing in this guide!

How to Track User Journey Before Form Submission in WordPress

When a user fills out a form on your site, how do you figure out what actually lead them to it? The answer to this question could help you acquire more leads and form submissions.

So, it's important to understand what pages someone reads before they submit. Luckily for you, WPForms can record the entire journey leading up to the form submissions.

In this guide, i'll walk you through how to switch that on and how to read what it gives you, along with how to measure your form analytics to improve conversions.

Which Marketing Channels Bring Your Best Leads?

One of the toughest decisions of running a business, especially in these times of changing search algorithms, AIO, AEO, GEO, and a huge list of other acronyms is that how much should you actually spend on marketing?

The best way to answer that question is to understand which of your marketing channels is bringing you leads. And, not just a list of contacts! But, actual leads with high-conversion potential!

Search for help with this and you'll mostly find guides written for teams who already own an enterprise attribution platform and a full CRM, and that can be difficult to afford for most small-to-medium sized businesses.

So, in this guide, I will be focusing more towards the WordPress side of things, and just a heads up that I will be mentioning several of WPForms' features that can help you out.

Hero image for a tutorial: title 'How to Prevent Duplicate Form Submissions in WordPress' with a left mascot and a right illustration of forms.

How to Stop People From Submitting Your WordPress Form More Than Once

You open your WPForms entries and two rows look identical, same name and email address, submitted 40 seconds apart. Now you have to work out which one counts.

That second entry might be a browser resending the submission, or someone entering your giveaway twice on purpose. Each cause has a different fix, so it helps to know which one you're dealing with.

How to Send WordPress Form Entries to a Slack Channel

When someone submits a form on your site, the entry usually lands in an email inbox or your WordPress dashboard. If nobody checks either one for a few hours, a warm lead cools off fast.

In this guide, I'll show you how to send WordPress form entries to a Slack channel automatically, so your whole team sees every submission the moment it comes in.