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.

8 Best Contact Form 7 Alternatives for WordPress (2026)

At WordCamp Asia 2026, Contact Form 7's creator Takayuki Miyoshi announced that version 6.2 will be the final feature release. The plugin enters maintenance mode going forward, which means security patches and bug fixes only and no new features.

A successor project called Contactable.io is in the works, but it's not expected until at least 2028. If you've been running Contact Form 7 on your site, that news probably changes the calculation. The good news is the WordPress form plugin market is crowded with strong alternatives.

This article walks through the best Contact Form 7 alternatives, ranked by overall fit for the kind of site that runs (or used to run) CF7. For each, I cover what the plugin actually does, what I liked, what it costs, and where it fits best.

How to Collect Photo ID Verification on WordPress Forms

If you run a WordPress site that needs to verify who someone is before letting them in, you've got a real problem to solve.

Contests, age-restricted shops, member sign-ups, and freelancer onboarding, they all need ID collection, but none of them need a $300/month KYC platform to pull it off.

The good news is that WPForms has a clean way to do this through a regular form. This guide walks through exactly how to build that form.

Lead Forms vs Conversational Forms: Which Is The Right Pick For You?

If you're trying to lift form completion rates on your WordPress site, you've probably come across two different ideas.

One approach breaks your form into a step-by-step lead capture flow where related fields share a page. Another turns your form into a chat-style experience that shows visitors only one question at a time.

Both formats genuinely work, and both can outperform a single long form by a wide margin. The catch is that the right pick depends on your specific form, your traffic source, and what the rest of your page is doing.

This article walks through what each format actually does on a WordPress site and where each one shines. By the time you're done reading, you'll know exactly which to pick for any form on your site.

How to Use WPForms AI to Generate Calculation Formulas

If you're adding a calculator to a WordPress form, you've probably realized that picking the fields and dragging them around is the easy half of the job.

The math behind those fields is where things get tricky, especially if you've never written a formula with field IDs and conditional logic before.

This is where WPForms AI comes in! You describe what you want to calculate in normal English, and the AI writes the formula using the right fields and operators.

In this guide, I'll walk you through how to generate calculation formulas with WPForms AI from start to finish. You won't write a single line of math yourself!

5 Quiz Ideas to Grow Your Email List in 2026

Sidebar signup forms and free PDFs still bring in subscribers, but the numbers have been sliding for years as readers learn to skip them on sight.

A typical newsletter signup form converts somewhere between 1 and 2 percent, and even well-designed lead magnets like ebooks rarely push past single digits.

The category that has held up best in the last few years is quizzez. The average online quiz converts at around 40 percent, which is roughly twenty times what a sidebar form pulls in.

So, in this post, I'll share 5 quiz formats worth considering, with example titles you can adapt and a note on which kind of business each one tends to fit best.

How to Create an AI-Generated Quiz in WordPress

When it comes to creating a quiz, it can be difficult to set up 20+ questions from scratch, and somewhere around question 9 you start second-guessing the whole endeavor.

That's where an AI quiz generator earns its keep. You describe the quiz you want, the AI drafts the questions, the choices, the scoring, and you spend your time reviewing instead of writing.

The catch with most options I've tried is that they ask you to bring an OpenAI API key, manage credits, and stitch the quiz output back into your site yourself.

The approach I'll walk you through here uses WPForms, which has the AI builder and the quiz engine built into the same plugin. There's no API key to set up or credits to manage.