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How to save entries from WPForms to Google Sheets

How to Connect WordPress Forms to Google Sheets

Many businesses rely on spreadsheets to manage information. With WPForms, you can send all form entries to a specified spreadsheet in Google Sheets in real-time.

The process is simple and requires no extra tools other than WPForms and Google Sheets.

Just follow the steps in this post to automate WPForms sending all entries to Google Sheets.

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WP Charitable Review: Is It the Best Donation Plugin?

Are you looking for the best WordPress donation management plugin? You’ll be looking for a solution that allows you to set up and manage campaigns easily, while offering a good deal of flexibility with payment options. WP Charitable is the leading donation management plugin for WordPress sites. Dive in to see how it can help!

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Introducing the new google sheets addon

Introducing the NEW Google Sheets Addon for WPForms

We’ve just launched a new addon for WPForms… the Google Sheets addon.

You can now automatically send form entries to a spreadsheet directly and take your entry management to the next level.

With this addon, you can focus more on important business tasks and leave it to WPForms to maintain your spreadsheets.

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What Is a WPForms Hidden Field? (And 8 Smart Ways to Use It)

Psst. Do you know about the WPForms Hidden field? Few things in life are as exciting as discovering secrets. And, WPForms has a secret field of its own.

It’s largely ignored by new users because they’re not sure if it serves any purpose at all. If that sounds like you, then I must say – you’re missing out!

The WPForms hidden field is invisible to visitors, but it can be incredibly valuable by letting you collect useful metadata with a user’s entry.

You can set up the hidden input field to collect information like locations, IP addresses, referrer URLs, and all kinds of fun stuff from people who fill out forms on your website.

In this post, I want to share some common ways that you can use the Hidden field to gather useful information, all without affecting user experience.

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How to Customize the WordPress Password Reset Form

The default WordPress password reset form is pretty basic. It gets the job done, but it doesn’t exactly scream “professional” or match your brand’s look and feel.

Without a custom password form WordPress solution, you’re missing out on keeping that brand consistency intact. Plus, you can’t add helpful instructions or customize the messaging to guide users through the reset process smoothly.

That’s where the WPForms User Registration addon comes in handy. It lets you create a fully customized password reset form that actually looks like it belongs on your site.

You can match your website’s colors, fonts, and overall design while providing clear, helpful instructions. So, without further ado, follow the steps in this guide to customize your WordPress password reset form!

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How to prevent bots from submitting your forms

How to Stop Bots from Submitting Your Forms (11 Ways)

Woke up to 300 spam form submissions overnight? Bots are flooding your contact forms with garbage entries, fake email addresses, and malicious links.

You’re wasting hours deleting spam instead of responding to real customers, and your email inbox is clogged with useless notifications.

Bot attacks can crash your server from processing thousands of fake submissions, fill your database with junk data that slows your site, and even spread malware through malicious links in form fields.

Without protection, a single bot attack can take your forms offline and damage your business reputation. This guide shows you seven proven methods to stop bots from submitting your WordPress forms.

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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.

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.