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WPForms Hits 5,000 5-Star Reviews — Giveaway + Sneak Peek

WPForms has officially passed the 5,000 5-star review mark on WordPress.org. This is something not a lot of other WordPress plugins can claim, and we’re incredibly excited and grateful. This is an enormous milestone for us and we couldn’t have done it without your continued support. So we’re doing a few fun things to celebrate! […]

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12 Best Google Forms Alternatives: My Top Picks for 2026

Like many, I built my first ever online form using Google Forms back when I was a student. It’s free, easy to get started, and gets the job done. But when my requirements grew after launching my WordPress site, the limitations rapidly became apparent.

I painfully felt the lack of customization options and the rigid design templates. Plus, the absence of advanced features such as payment integrations and multi-layered spam protection made my forms less useful than they could be.

I needed something more dynamic and customizable. So I explored many Google Forms alternatives, found several that I loved, and many that I never wanted to use again. In this post, I’ll share my experience with the few forms that I really enjoyed using instead of Google Forms.

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25 Best Education WordPress Themes (Free & Premium) in 2025

Are you looking for the best WordPress education themes?

There’s a WordPress theme for every niche, including education and literary websites. With hundreds of free and premium themes, it can be confusing to find the perfect education theme.

In this article, we’ll share our handpicked list of the best education WordPress themes for schools and academic websites.

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WPForms 1.5.6

Introducing Multiple File Uploads, Text Limits, and More!

The newest WPForms update is here and we couldn’t be more delighted about these amazing new features! These updates are going to make online form building and running your website even simpler. Let’s dive right in to what’s new in WPForms 1.5.6. Upload Multiple Files with Ease We teased it in our VIP Circle Group […]

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How to Set Up WordPress Email Logs

Want to set up email logging on your WordPress site?

With email logging enabled, you can keep records of every email that’s sent out from your website.

In this post, we’ll show you exactly how to set up and view WordPress email logs using the WP Mail SMTP plugin.

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New Feature Payments

Start Your Stripe Subscriptions With a Trial Period

Left-aligned hero text: “Add a Trial Period to Stripe Subscriptions in WPForms,” with a bear avatar and an ANNOUNCEMENT badge on dark blue background.

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

Hero banner announcing the WPForms Weekly Email Summary with a mascot circle on the left and a white analytics card on the right, on a dark blue background.

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.