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Gravity Forms vs WPForms: The Ultimate Plugin Debate

Okay, let’s talk about WordPress form builders. If you’re searching for the right tool to create forms on your site, you’ve almost certainly narrowed it down to two major players: Gravity Forms and WPForms.

Both are incredibly popular and powerful, but they approach form building quite differently. Now, full transparency: you’re reading this comparison on the WPForms blog.

Does that mean this is just a biased sales pitch? Honestly, I wouldn’t waste your time or mine if that were the case. My goal here is to share my genuine, hands-on experience testing both plugins extensively.

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How to Block a Country in WordPress (7 Easy Ways)

Do you want to block a country in WordPress? Maybe the same country keeps flooding your forms with spam, or you’re seeing shady login attempts and bot traffic from places you don’t even sell to.

There are really two different problems hiding inside that one question. Most people who say they want to block a country are actually trying to stop spam coming through their forms, and that has a clean, targeted fix.

Other people genuinely need to block a whole country from their entire site, which is a heavier approach with real tradeoffs for SEO and for legitimate visitors.

In this guide, I’ll cover both and present 5 ways to block a country in WordPress, starting with the easiest fix for form spam and then working through dedicated plugins, Cloudflare, your web host, and a manual server option.

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10 Ways to Use OpenAI on Your WordPress Site

If you’ve ever wondered how to bring a touch of AI magic to your blog or website, you’re in the right place.

Whether you want to automate tasks, generate content, or offer unique interactive experiences to your visitors, incorporating AI can significantly improve your site’s capabilities.

I’m here to walk you through some straightforward steps to integrate OpenAI’s powerful tools into your WordPress platform, just like I did.

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Does WordPress use AI?

Does WordPress Use AI?

Does WordPress use AI? For now, WordPress doesn’t include any native AI functionality. Fortunately, if you want to add AI to your website to improve your workflows, there are plenty of plugins available to help you.

In this post, we’ll explore some of the most popular ways to use AI with WordPress, along with some plugins to help with each of them.

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How to Set Up Google Ads Conversion Tracking for WordPress Forms

Are you ready to unlock the potential of your WordPress forms by integrating them with Google Ads conversions?

Tracking form submissions as conversions lets you see which ads drive the most effective user engagements and lead generation.

In this guide, I’ll try my best to explain the entire process in easy steps. Let’s dive in and make your advertising efforts count!

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How to Create Branded Form Templates

Are you wondering how to create branded form templates that resonate with your brand identity and ensure a consistent user experience?

Branded forms that reflect your brand’s colors, logo, and style make your forms feel more personal and professional, enhancing user engagement and trust.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the steps to create a branded form that looks great and functions perfectly for your needs.

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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

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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.