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How to Create a WordPress Entry Contest Form

How to Create a Contest Entry Form in WordPress (2 Easy Ways)

Running contest is an excellent way to generate new leads, grow your email list, and promote important landing pages of your site.

But it’s challenging to manage a contest manually.

Thankfully, you can use some advanced plugins that will take care of your contest automatically once you set them up.

Read more to learn about creating your WordPress contest entry forms effortlessly.

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How to add Matrix survey questions to your forms

Matrix Survey Questions (Examples and How to Create Them in WordPress)

Matrix survey questions are incredibly useful for collecting feedback.

With WPForms, you can easily add matrix questions to your survey form and customize them to fit your needs.

The best part is, you can easily get started quickly with a ready-made survey template.

Check out this guide for a full tutorial on adding matrix survey questions to your WordPress forms.

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7 Best Form Builders With Conditional Logic

If you’ve ever filled out a form that asked you 20 questions when only 6 of them mattered to you, you already know why conditional logic exists.

Smart forms hide the fields that don’t apply and only show what’s relevant based on the answers you’ve already given. Done well, it cuts form abandonment and gets you cleaner data on the back end.

I’ve spent a fair bit of time building and breaking forms across most of the major builders out there, and conditional logic is the one feature where the differences really show up.

So I tested 7 of the most popular form builders with conditional logic side by side. Below is what I found, ranked by how well each one actually works in practice for real use cases.

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

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Ninja Forms vs Formidable Pro vs WPForms: Which Is Best?

Are you looking for the best WordPress form builder? Perhaps you’d like a review of how other form builders compare with WPForms? Ninja Forms and Formidable Pro are two alternatives you may consider when looking for the best WordPress form builder. But which plugin is better, and how do they both compare with WPForms? Jump in for the full review and comparison.

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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.