Syed Balkhi

Co-Founder

Expertise

WordPress
Web development
Web hosting
Ecommerce
Digital marketing
SEO
Blogging
Content marketing
SaaS

Highlights

One of Syed’s most notable achievements is co-founding WPBeginner during his time as a student at the University of Florida. WPBeginner is the biggest online resource for WordPress tutorials, tips, and guidance for beginners and experienced users alike. The site has grown into a trusted platform for millions of WordPress users seeking to enhance their website-building skills.

In addition to WPBeginner and WPForms, Syed’s portfolio includes OptinMoster, MonsterInsights, All In One SEO, SeedProd, and several other plugins and tools in use by over 25 million websites worldwide.

Syed’s dedication to delivering high-quality products and services has earned him recognition in the WordPress industry, and he was named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the United Nations. His work is featured in leading publications, including Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc., Business Insider, The Guardian, Wired Magazine, and more.

Beyond his professional achievements, Syed is known for his commitment to education and knowledge sharing. He frequently speaks at industry conferences and WordCamps, contributes to open source projects, including WordPress Core, and offers guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs and marketers.

Introducing the WPForms Dashboard – All Your Form Activity on One Screen!

How is every form on your site doing? That's the question WPForms now answers the moment you log in.

Your entries and payments, form views, top visitor locations, and the next steps worth taking, all added up across your forms.

Each of your forms has always been able to tell you its own story.

Put them side by side, and you can see how people are engaging, where activity is growing, and what might deserve your attention next.

WPForms has always been the easiest way to build forms, and now it's also the clearest way to see how they're working for you.

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Introducing WPForms QR Code: Send Every Scan Straight to Your Form

More than half of the world's internet users scan a QR code every month.

On restaurant tables, checkout counters, product packaging, conference badges, the back of a business card.

And almost every one of those codes works in one direction.

It hands people something to read, like a menu or a homepage, and takes nothing back.

So they look, then put the phone away. No name or email ever reaches you.

WPForms points the scan the other way. Now it opens your form instead.

Meet the New WPForms Ranking Field – Find Out What Your Audience Wants Most!

Here's an uncomfortable truth about survey forms.

You ask your audience to rate five ideas from 1 to 5. You collect hundreds of responses. You sit down to analyze the data and… everything scores between 3.8 and 4.2.

Now what?

You still don't know which idea to work on next. You still can’t figure out what your customers actually care about most.

Rating questions let people sit on the fence, and when everything can score a 4, you're leaving real insights on the table.

What you need is a question where something has to win.

That’s why today, I'm excited to announce something that will completely change how you collect preference data.

Introducing the WPForms Mercado Pago Addon: Card Payments Built for Latin America

Did you know that 83 million people use Mercado Pago every month?

Last year alone, the platform processed $278 billion in payments.

That scale reflects something much bigger than the popularity of a payment platform.

Mercado Pago has become a familiar part of how millions of people across Latin America buy, book, and pay online.

So when one of them reaches your payment form, can they pay the way they always do?

Starting today, yes they can!

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Introducing WPForms Analytics: Built-In Form Performance Tracking

Right now, someone is filling out a form on your website.

Maybe they finish it. Maybe they are starting it but giving up halfway through. Or maybe one field is creating more friction than you realize.

You have no way of knowing which.

Because until now, figuring that out usually meant setting up a separate analytics tool, digging through event tracking, or making your best guess from the entries you received.

And the entries you never received? Those were the ones holding the answers.

So the reasons stayed buried, and every visitor who gave up walked away without ever telling you why.

That changes today.

Introducing SendGrid Marketing Integration for WPForms

You already trust SendGrid with one of the most valuable jobs in your marketing.

Turning contacts into customers.

Your lists, your segments, the campaigns you send. They all run on the audience you have built inside SendGrid.

So here is a question worth asking: when someone fills out a form on your site, do they actually make it into that audience?

For most WordPress sites, the answer is no.

The leads land in your form entries, and getting them into your SendGrid lists has meant reaching for a third-party tool, a bridge plugin, or a CSV export you run when you remember.

There had to be a better way. And now there is.