Kacie Cooper

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Kacie writes for the blog and oversees the weekly newsletter for WPForms. She is a graduate of Pittsburg State University, where she received BAs in English and Psychology and an MA in Literature.

Kacie’s writing career officially began in the classroom, teaching research writing and composition classes to high school and college students. She even taught a semester on WordPress blogging. Kacie has also spent some time freelance writing, with bylines in a couple of major publications. She’s been blogging on WordPress since 2016 and joined WPForms in 2022.

When she isn’t writing, Kacie likes to unplug and enjoy the outdoors by camping, hiking, and biking.

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How to Require Email Verification for New User Registrations in WordPress

Fake signups and bot accounts piling up on your WordPress site? Email verification for new user registrations holds every account inactive until the person confirms a real email. Here's how to set it up with WPForms in about ten minutes, no code.

SMS vs. Email Form Notifications: Which One Actually Gets Read?

SMS gets a 98% open rate. Email gets 20–28%. But both numbers come from marketing campaigns, not from the "new quote request just came in" alert sitting in your dashboard.

Here's what each channel is actually good at once it's wired to a form and how to run both without doubling your work.

How to Send WordPress Form Data to Any API With Webhooks

Webhooks let your WordPress forms send data to any API, not just the ones with an addon. Here's the full setup: endpoint details, field mapping, auth headers, and a safe way to test it.

How to Route Form Submissions to Different Lists and Tools Based on Answers

In this guide, we'll show you how to route form data with conditional logic in WordPress, so every submission goes straight to the right inbox, the right email list, and the right tool the second it comes in.

You set the rules once, and WPForms handles the sorting from there.

How to Connect WordPress Forms to Make.com

Make is a visual automation platform that connects thousands of apps, and WPForms includes a native addon for it. Once the two are linked, every form submission can kick off a chain of actions on its own: a new spreadsheet row, a CRM contact, a ping to your team in Slack.

In this tutorial, you'll connect a WordPress form to Make.com and build your first automated workflow.

Form Confirmations vs. Notifications: What’s the Difference

The difference matters, because each one handles half of what should happen after someone hits Submit.

In this post, we'll break down what confirmations and notifications each do, how to set them up, and how to use them together so no lead, question, or signup slips past you.