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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.

A Beginner’s Guide to Form Conversion Optimization

Most site owners spend months worrying about traffic, but when the traffic actually arrives, the contact form sits there, and the leads never show up.

After working on a lot of WordPress forms, for my own projects and for clients, I've found the form itself is almost always what's holding things back.

Small changes to how your form looks, asks, and follows up can move a 2 percent conversion rate into double digits, and you don't need a CRO specialist to pull it off.

In this beginner's guide, you'll learn what form conversion optimization actually is, why most forms quietly lose leads, and the five practical pillars you can use to start fixing yours today.

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A Complete Guide on WordPress GDPR Compliance for Forms

If you're running a WordPress site with any kind of form, there's a good chance you're collecting personal data. Names, email addresses, payment details, feedback responses. And if even one of those visitors lives in the European Union, GDPR applies to you.

I've seen too many site owners treat GDPR as a vague checkbox exercise, something you deal with by slapping a cookie banner on your homepage and calling it done. But forms are where the real data collection happens, and that's exactly where regulators are paying attention.

Making your WordPress forms GDPR compliant doesn't have to be painful. In this guide, I'll walk you through everything you need to know, from what the regulation actually requires to how you can set up compliant forms in WPForms.

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How to Use WordPress Form Abandonment Recovery to Save Leads

Someone lands on your website, finds your contact form, and starts typing their name into the first field. Then their phone buzzes, or their boss pings them, or they just close the tab thinking they'll come back later.

Studies show that over 80% of people who start filling out a form never submit it. That's traffic and interest lost because there was no way to capture what they'd already typed.

The good news is that WPForms has a way to capture that data before it disappears. The Form Abandonment addon saves partial entries in real time. Follow the steps in this guide to set it up!

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How to Accept PayPal Payments in WordPress for Free

If you've been searching for a way to accept PayPal payments on your WordPress site, you've probably noticed that most guides point you toward WooCommerce or an expensive plugin.

The good news is WPForms Lite now includes PayPal Commerce as a built-in feature. It's a free plugin, and you can use it to collect one-time or recurring PayPal payments directly through your WordPress forms.

I'll walk you through the full setup in this guide. From plugin install to a live payment form, the whole thing takes about 10 minutes.

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11 Reasons to Switch From Contact Form 7 to WPForms

Contact Form 7 just announced a feature freeze. At a recent WordCamp event, the CF7 team confirmed that version 6.2 will be the final major update. After that, the plugin will only receive bug fixes and security patches. The developer explicitly stated they're moving on to the next project.

If you're one of the 10 million+ site owners running CF7, your first thought is probably "my forms work fine, so why should I care?" That's fair. But a plugin in feature freeze isn't just missing new features. It's a plugin that will slowly fall behind as WordPress itself keeps evolving.

I've been watching CF7's development pace slow down for a while now, and this announcement confirms what many of us suspected. The good news is that switching is faster and easier than you'd expect, and there's a free alternative that already does more than CF7 ever did.

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How to Create a Multi-Location WordPress Booking Form

Managing bookings across multiple locations can be a nightmare without the right tools, especially when customers need to see where you're located before they book.

With WPForms and the Geolocation addon, you can create a multi location booking form WordPress that displays all your locations on an interactive map and lets visitors pick their preferred spot.

This guide walks you through building a booking form that shows multiple offices, service centers, or event venues on a single map, making it easy for customers to find and book at their nearest location.

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