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Revolutionize Your Forms With Repeatable Fields

Revolutionize Your Forms With Repeatable Fields

The latest release of WPForms includes one of our most-requested features: the Repeater field.

This powerful feature lets you add multiple sets of fields with a click, simplifying form creation and enhancing user experience. This is ideal for any form where you might need to upload multiple data such as job history, details of family members, expense requests, and more.

We can’t wait for you to try out this new feature and make form building easier than ever before!

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9 Best SMTP Servers for Reliable Email Delivery in 2026

If your contact form emails are landing in spam (or not arriving at all), the problem is almost never your form plugin. It’s how WordPress sends mail.

By default, WordPress uses PHP’s mail() function, and most hosts don’t authenticate it properly, so Gmail and Outlook quietly route those messages to junk or block them entirely.

An SMTP server fixes that, as it relays your WordPress emails through an authenticated provider with proper SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records, which means your emails actually reach the inbox.

To save you the trial and error of picking through dozens of providers, here are the 9 SMTP servers I trust on WordPress sites in 2026, with current pricing and an honest read on where each one fits.

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Best tools to visualize survey results

21 Best Survey Data Visualization Tools (2026)

Are you looking for an easy and efficient way to visualize survey results for your business? I have tried and tested dozens of survey data visualization tools and summarized the best tools and tips in this article.

Survey data visualization tools help you understand and analyze the effectiveness of your surveys in a visual form. You can use these tools to visually display all sorts of data in eye-catching graphs or charts and make reliable data-backed decisions for your business.

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How Can I Create a WordPress Form for Free?

How to Create a WordPress Form for Free (3 Options)

Do you need to create WordPress forms for free?

There are many ways to create free online forms. We’ll explain the best features to look for: seamless WordPress integration, easy customization, spam protection, and payment integration.

We’ll also look closely at the 3 most popular options to see which one is the best fit.

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

Easy, Fast, and Secure. Join over 6 million website owners who trust WPForms.

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26 Best Free WordPress Themes (My Personal Favorites for 2026)

After testing 150+ free WordPress themes over the past six months, I can tell you that 90% of them aren’t worth your time. They’re either abandoned by developers, incompatible with essential plugins, or so poorly coded they’ll tank your site speed.

But here’s what nobody tells you: the remaining 10% can genuinely compete with premium themes costing $50-100. You just need to know which ones actually work.

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How to Get Microsoft Teams Alerts From WordPress Forms

How to Get Microsoft Teams Alerts from Your WordPress Forms

Have you ever thought about how to receive Microsoft Teams alerts when people submit a form on your WordPress site?

Alerts from your WordPress forms in Microsoft Teams can provide real-time updates on online submissions, ensuring you never miss out on timely actions.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable Microsoft Teams alerts for forms by using WPForms and connecting it to Microsoft Teams via Zapier.

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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.