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Introducing our proficient content writer with extensive expertise.

Hamza Shahid

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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 Make a Free Business Email Address

How to Create a Free Business Email Address (+ 25 Examples)

One common mistake I routinely see many new websites make is the use of generic sender domains like @gmail, @hotmail, and so on for their WordPress emails.

Imagine receiving your order confirmation email from a random email address that doesn't even have the company's brand name in the domain.

Not only is it bad from a branding standpoint, but it also fails to inspire trust as recipients have no way to be sure that the email is coming from a legitimate sender.

This is why setting up a professional business email address for your website is a non-negotiable in today's world.

In this article, I'll show you 25 real business email address examples so you can see what a professional address looks like. Then I'll walk you through setting up your own free business email at a domain you control.

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How to Make Custom Zoho Forms in WordPress (The Easy Way)

One of the most useful automations you can use for your business is having your custom WordPress forms connected with a CRM like Zoho.

This works wonders for putting the process of sending your leads from your WordPress forms to Zoho on autopilot, saving you valuable time and effort.

In this article, I'll show you how to create a custom form using a native WordPress solution and integrate it with your Zoho CRM.

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How to Allow Users to Upload Images on a WordPress Site

If you're running a WordPress site and want people to send you images maybe for submissions, feedback, or content contributions, you'll quickly find that WordPress doesn't really make that easy out of the box.

I’ve run into this problem before. Giving people backend access isn’t an option, and asking them to email files gets messy fast. What you really need is a form that lets users upload images directly through the front end.

I usually use WPForms for this. It lets me control exactly how the form works, where the files go, and what types of images are allowed. Here’s how I do it. Step by step!

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How to Add a Number Range Slider in WordPress Forms (Free)

Number range sliders in a form look really cool and that in itself is an important benefit since visitors are likely to trust you more if you're using visually impressive forms that reflect professionalism.

Plus, number range sliders add a greater level of interactivity to your forms. Interactivity creates engagement, and it's your engaged visitors that ultimately end up converting.

So, how do you add a number range slider in your WordPress forms? I'll walk you through the simplest way you can achieve this right here.

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[SOLVED] WordPress Contact Form Not Sending Email (2026)

Are you not receiving email notifications from your WordPress contact forms? Unfortunately, the WordPress contact form not sending email issue is very common.

However, you can quickly fix this issue and start receiving those emails by setting up Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on your website. This tutorial shows you exactly how to fix the WordPress contact form sending email issue.

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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.