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Introducing our proficient content writer with extensive expertise.

Renee DeCoskey

Content Editor

Expertise

  • WordPress
  • Content Marketing
  • Blogging
  • SEO
  • Digital Marketing for Nonprofits

Highlights

Renee is a Content Editor for WPForms and WP Mail SMTP. She graduated from Susquehanna University with a BA in English and earned her MA in English from George Mason University.

As a high school English teacher, Renee was interested in how she could use blogging and social media as classroom tools. She’d been blogging consistently across different platforms since 2001 and started using WordPress in 2007. After a few years teaching, she made the decision to pursue digital content full-time, took on some freelance roles, and created her first hosted WordPress site.

Prior to joining WPForms in 2022, Renee spent 11 years as the managing editor of one of the top independently-owned business and marketing news sites, managing original and syndicated user-generated content from contributors around the world, all within WordPress.

In her free time, Renee enjoys reading and the Philadelphia Phillies. She’s also heavily involved with both her club and district as a member of Rotary International.

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How to Create a WordPress Donation Form for Nonprofits

Raising funds for a nonprofit is no easy task, and creating a donation form that actually works can feel overwhelming, especially if you're new to WordPress.

You might be wondering if it’s possible to build an effective donation form in WordPress without getting lost in technical details. I had the same concerns!

After going through the process, I realized that creating a nonprofit donation form in WordPress is much simpler than it seems. In this article, I'll show you exactly how to use a template to create a donation form in WordPress.

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How To Customize Your WordPress Theme Colors

Do you want to learn how to customize your WordPress theme colors? Maybe you've found a theme you love, but the color scheme is all wrong for your brand. In this post, we'll look at how you can customize your WordPress theme colors with and without code.

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8 Form Layout Best Practices for User-Friendly Design

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WP Mail SMTP Review: Is It RIght For You?

WP Mail SMTP Review: Will It Fix Your Emails?

Are you looking for an SMTP plugin for your WordPress website? WP Mail SMTP improves deliverability by making sure your emails are properly authenticated and sent through 3rd parties so that they don't get stuck in spam filters. In this post, we'll look at some of WP Mail SMTP's key features to help you decide if it's the right mailer plugin for you.

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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.