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A Complete Guide on WordPress GDPR Compliance for Forms

If you’re running a WordPress site with any kind of form, there’s a good chance you’re collecting personal data. Names, email addresses, payment details, feedback responses. And if even one of those visitors lives in the European Union, GDPR applies to you.

I’ve seen too many site owners treat GDPR as a vague checkbox exercise, something you deal with by slapping a cookie banner on your homepage and calling it done. But forms are where the real data collection happens, and that’s exactly where regulators are paying attention.

Making your WordPress forms GDPR compliant doesn’t have to be painful. In this guide, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know, from what the regulation actually requires to how you can set up compliant forms in WPForms.

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11 Reasons to Switch From Contact Form 7 to WPForms

Contact Form 7 just announced a feature freeze. At a recent WordCamp event, the CF7 team confirmed that version 6.2 will be the final major update. After that, the plugin will only receive bug fixes and security patches. The developer explicitly stated they’re moving on to the next project.

If you’re one of the 10 million+ site owners running CF7, your first thought is probably “my forms work fine, so why should I care?” That’s fair. But a plugin in feature freeze isn’t just missing new features. It’s a plugin that will slowly fall behind as WordPress itself keeps evolving.

I’ve been watching CF7’s development pace slow down for a while now, and this announcement confirms what many of us suspected. The good news is that switching is faster and easier than you’d expect, and there’s a free alternative that already does more than CF7 ever did.

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How to Create a Lead-Generation Quiz in WordPress

With the Quiz addon, you can build any of three quiz types: Personality, Graded, or Weighted, and turn each one into a lead-capture machine. In this guide, I’ll show you exactly how to do it for all three quiz formats, along with some quiz-building tips and tricks as we go.

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

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