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Create an Emoji Rating Scale in WordPress

How to Create an Emoji Rating Scale in WordPress (Step by Step)

Do you want to add an emoji rating scale to a form or survey?

Adding an emoji rating scale lets customers provide feedback in a fun and user-friendly way.

An emoji rating scale is a ranking system that’s comprised of clickable emojis or icons.

By clicking on these icons, customers can show how they feel, from negative, to neutral, to positive.

We’ll show you how to create an emoji rating scale on any WordPress form.

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WordPress Email Plugin Guide

7 Best Email Plugins for WordPress (Free & Paid) in 2026

Ever wonder how some websites seem to have their email totally figured out? I can tell you, it’s all about having the right email plugins in your toolkit.

Whether you’re trying to capture leads, send newsletters, or just make sure your contact form messages actually reach their destination, there’s a WordPress email plugin for that.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the 7 most essential WordPress email plugins that can transform how you communicate with your audience.

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How to Change the WordPress Admin Email (The Easy Way)

Changing your WordPress admin email sounds like a two-second job, and most of the time it is. You head to your settings, swap in the new address, and save.

There’s one catch that trips people up, though, and it’s the confirmation step. WordPress sends a verification link to the new address before it makes the switch.

This means, if your site isn’t reliably sending email, that link never arrives and the change quietly fails. This caught me out the first time too.

So I’ll walk through all of it, starting with the quick way to change the address from your dashboard, then how to make sure the confirmation actually lands in your inbox, and finally what to do if you’re locked out and can’t receive that email at all.

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How to take over an existing wordpress website

How to Transfer a WordPress Site to a New Owner (Complete Checklist)

Are you ready to take over an existing WordPress site?

Taking ownership of a new website can be daunting because there are so many parts to the whole process.

But the process becomes far easier if you know exactly what to look for. during a takeover.

For this post, we’ve put together a checklist outlining how to take over an existing WordPress site.

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

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Best transactional email services

5+ Best Transactional Email Services in 2025

Do you want to get the best transactional email service for your website?

There are various transactional email services on the market, but not all of these may be the right fit for your business or nonprofit.

In this post, we’re going to list our top recommendations for transactional email services and discuss their main features.

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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.