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Stop spam user registration

11 Simple Tricks to Stop Spam User Registrations in WordPress

Getting flooded with fake user registrations is a serious security risk that can slow down your site and create a mess in your user database. 

I’ve dealt with this issue countless times, and it’s frustrating to see spambots creating dozens of fake accounts every day. The good news is that you don’t need to be a security expert to stop these fake registrations.

In this guide, I’ll share nine battle-tested tricks that will help you eliminate fake user registrations on your WordPress site. These are the same strategies I’ve used to reduce spam registrations by up to 99% in most cases!

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How to create a coming soon page in WordPress

How to Create a Coming Soon Page in WordPress (Easily)

I see you working hard on your new WordPress website, perfecting every detail before the big launch. But what about visitors who stumble upon your domain in the meantime? You don’t want them to see a half-finished site or, worse, an error page. This is where knowing how to create a coming soon page in […]

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How to Auto Populate Fields in WordPress Forms

How to Auto-Populate Fields in WordPress Forms

Do you want to auto-populate fields in your WordPress forms? You can automatically use information like post types or products to create the options in form fields. This makes forms easier to fill out, and it can also save a lot of time when you’re building them. WPForms makes it easy to auto-fill form fields […]

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

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Ninja Forms vs WPForms

Ninja Forms vs WPForms: Form Builders Compared (2026 Review)

While you’re reading this comparison on the WPForms blog, I want to assure you that my goal here is to provide an unbiased, experience-driven look at two of the most popular WordPress form builders: WPForms and Ninja Forms.

I’ve spent considerable time with both, putting them through their paces to understand their strengths, weaknesses, and ultimately, which one truly delivers the best experience for users like you and me.

My aim is to cut through the marketing noise and share my personal journey and findings, helping you make an informed decision for your own website. So, let’s get started!

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New Feature Payments

Start Your Stripe Subscriptions With a Trial Period

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A Stripe subscription sold through WPForms can now begin with a trial period: the subscriber signs up today, and their first payment waits until the trial is over.

The card is collected and checked at signup, held by Stripe, and charged automatically on the day the trial ends.

The length is a number of days, weeks, months, or years, chosen in the form builder’s Payments tab for each Stripe subscription you sell.

Each trial shows up in WPForms » Payments with a Trialing status until that first payment lands.

Improvement

Weekly Email Summary

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The weekly summary WPForms emails you now opens with stat tiles for entries, views, and spam, each marked with how it moved against the previous week.

Beneath them, a table gives every form its own line, and when the data earns it the headline changes to call out a best week, a milestone, or a form that has gone quiet.

A single button takes you from the email back into WPForms, so the thing worth checking is one click away.

Integration New Feature Payments

Paystack Addon

Introducing the WPForms Paystack Addon: Accept Payments in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya

The Paystack addon brings card, bank transfer, and mobile money payments to your forms for buyers in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya.

Buyers click submit and pay in the Paystack popup in naira, cedis, rand, or Kenyan shillings, with no new field to add to your form.

Bank transfer and mobile money payments are saved as Pending, and WPForms can hold your notification emails until Paystack confirms the payment, then completes the order on its own.

Every Paystack payment shows up in WPForms » Payments, and full refunds can be issued without leaving WordPress.

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

Announcement banner: dark blue background with headline 'Say Hello to WPForms QR Code: One Scan Opens Your Form' and a large QR code on the right.

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.