Trying to decide between Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, and WPForms? All of these plugins let you make forms in WordPress, but they provide very different features and user experiences. In this post, we share a detailed comparison to help you choose the best solution for your site.
It should be easy to use WPForms and Mailchimp together. We know Mailchimp is an extremely popular email marketing service, so we’re excited to introduce you to the Mailchimp 2.0 addon for WPForms. If you thought it was simple using Mailchimp and WPForms before, just wait until you see what’s new with the addon. Mailchimp […]
Want to add form placeholder text in WordPress? Placeholders make it easy for your visitors to fill in each field correctly.
It sits inside a field and shows people exactly what to type before they type it, which cuts down on guesswork and the back-and-forth emails that follow.
In this article, I’ll walk you through adding placeholder text to every field on your WordPress contact form by using the simplest solution available with WPForms!
If you’ve heard of SeedProd, you probably know it as a landing page plugin. That’s how I thought of it too, right up until I built a few pages with it and realized how much bigger the plugin has become.
You can still spin up a single landing page in a few minutes, but you can also design an entire site, headers, footers, and archive pages included, without touching a line of code or hiring a developer.
I’ve spent enough time inside the SeedProd builder to know where it shines and where it gets in your way. So in this SeedProd review, I’ll walk you through what it does, what it costs in, and whether it’s the right website builder for you.
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Do you want to hide your WordPress site until it’s ready to launch? Maybe you’re building a brand new site, or you want to keep your work private from the public while you redesign an existing one.
Either way, hiding your site gives you room to work without visitors stumbling onto half-finished or broken pages. It also protects your SEO, since you don’t want Google indexing placeholder content or error pages before you’re ready to go live.
In this guide, I’ll show you the easiest way to hide your WordPress site until it’s ready, and how to keep it private from the public while still letting your team or clients preview it. You can hide your whole site or just the specific pages you’re still working on.
Need to collect dates from website visitors? You probably already know that standard text fields for dates create chaos. Customers often enter dates in different formats (12/25/2026 vs 25/12/2026 vs December 25, 2026).
This leads to booking errors, missed appointments, and eventually frustrated customers. A proper date picker solves this by providing a visual calendar interface that works the same way across all devices.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to add professional date picker forms to WordPress using WPForms’ advanced date/time picker form field and functionality, plus a few tips if you’d like to customize it.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.