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.

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12 Best Email Marketing Service Providers I’ve Tested (Free + Paid)

Are you trying to find the perfect email marketing service to promote your small business? Choosing the right platform for your growing business is key.

Email marketing plays an important role in connecting with leads and customers, and it can be hard to switch services down the road.

So in this article, we’ll compare the top email marketing service providers out there today.

14 Best WordPress Membership Plugins Compared (2026)

Picking the right WordPress membership plugin is one of those decisions that quietly shapes everything else about your site, your pricing model, your content workflow, even how easy it is to keep paying members happy long-term.

The market is crowded, and most "best of" lists feel interchangeable. So I went through the leading WordPress membership plugins and put together this honest comparison, with each plugin's real strengths, where it falls short, and the use case it actually fits.

By the time you finish reading, you'll know which plugin matches your goals, whether that's selling courses, gating premium content, running a paid newsletter, or building a paid community.

How to Send a PDF Attachment in a Form Notification Email

As someone who's spent a fair bit of time building WordPress forms, I know how often it comes down to one question. How do you get a PDF into someone's inbox the moment they hit submit?

The good news is that WPForms gives you a few ways to do it, and I've used all of them. You can attach a file the person uploaded, automatically attach a polished PDF of their whole submission, or send them a download link for something like a lead magnet.

In this guide, I'll walk you through all three so you can pick the one that fits what you're sending, whether that's a contract, a receipt, or a free ebook.

Support Ticket Form Template + Best Practices (2026)

If you're handling customer support through email alone, you already know how messy it gets. Requests get buried, responses get delayed, and there's no easy way to track what's been resolved and what hasn't.

A dedicated support ticket form fixes that. It gives your users a clear way to submit requests, and it gives your team a structured system to manage them.

You can route tickets to the right department, set priority levels, collect screenshots, and track everything from your WordPress dashboard.

WPForms comes with a ready-to-use support ticket form template that you can customize in minutes. In this guide, I'll walk you through how to use it up step by step.

8 Crucial Email Marketing Metrics (Start Measuring Today)

When I first started with email marketing, it quickly became clear that tracking the right metrics was essential to making my campaigns successful.

Each email I sent out could reach a huge number of people, but what mattered was understanding what worked and what didn’t.

Over time, I learned that certain metrics are extremely important to figuring out if your emails are actually engaging your audience.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the most important email marketing metrics, showing you how each one can help you make smarter decisions.

How to Export Contact Form 7 Data to WPForms

Contact Form 7 recently entered a feature freeze. At a WordPress event, it was announced that version 6.2 will be the final major update for the plugin. After that, only bug fixes and security patches.

If you're one of the 10 million WordPress sites still running Contact Form 7, that's worth paying attention to. No new features means the plugin won't keep pace as WordPress evolves.

I've helped quite a few people migrate from CF7 to WPForms over the years, and the process is one of the easiest plugin switches you'll make in WordPress.

WPForms has a built-in importer that pulls your CF7 forms over in a few clicks. In this guide, I'll walk you through the full export and migration process from start to finish.