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Best calendar plugins for WordPress

Best Calendar Plugins for WordPress

Need a calendar plugin to handle your event management and organization tasks?

WordPress offers a bunch of powerful plugins for syncing your WordPress site with apps like Google Calendar, accepting frontend event submissions from community members, accepting online bookings for rentals, and more.

We’ve tested the most popular calendar plugins for WordPress and compiled a list of our favorite ones.

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Best checkout plugins for WordPress

8 Best Checkout Plugins for WordPress

Trying to simplify your online store’s checkout process? Have you ever wondered which is the best checkout plugin for WordPress?

The checkout process on your eCommerce site can be considerably improved with the proper plugin, leading to a better user experience and more purchases.

In this article, we’ve done the research and narrowed down the very best WordPress checkout plugins and tools for you.

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What Is a Promotional Calendar (+ How to Create One)

What Is a Promotional Calendar? (Create Yours for 2026)

A promotional calendar is a strategic marketing tool that schedules a company’s promotional activities over time for planning sales, discounts, events, and product launches.

This planning document aligns promotions with seasons and holidays, maximizing impact and ensuring steady customer engagement.

In this post, we’ll share valuable tips for helping you create your own promotional calendar so you can make the most of sales seasons.

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

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Announcing Elementor Form Styles and Entry View Settings

When we rolled out form styling options for the block editor a few months ago, we immediately got one piece of feedback more than any others.

Elementor users told us they were stuck with a lack of formatting options. There was no easy way to customize the appearance of forms they created in WPForms without using the block editor.

Our goal here is to make things stupid simple. We want you to create forms that function properly and look fantastic. It was a top priority for us to make sure Elementor users had the same access to form styling options that WordPress block editor users have.

We’re thrilled to announce that with today’s 1.8.3 release, users can now style their forms in Elementor!

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9 Best Instagram Plugins for WordPress in 2026

Instagram is where a lot of your audience already spends time, so it makes sense to bring some of that energy onto your WordPress site.

The hard part is picking the right plugin, because “Instagram plugin” can mean very different things depending on what you actually want to do.

Some plugins simply display your live Instagram feed, while others pull your photos into galleries or sliders, run Instagram giveaways, auto-post your content, or add follow and share buttons.

I went through the most popular options to work out which one is genuinely good at which job.

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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.