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11 Best Live Chat Plugins for WordPress in 2026 (Free and Paid)

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12 Best Website Builders for Small Business (2025)

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The Best WordPress Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin

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9 Best Google Workspace Plugins for WordPress

Google Workspace offers a robust set of tools that can help businesses of all sizes improve their productivity. These include popular apps like Google Sheets, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, and many more. Are you looking for the best Google Workspace plugins for your WordPress website? There are quite a few, and we’ve put together a list of the top 7. Read on to see the list!

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11 Best Blogging Platforms in 2026: Get Started & Make Money

Starting a blog in 2026 looks very different than it did a few years ago. You’ve got traditional website builders, newsletter-first platforms like Substack and Ghost, no-code tools, AI tools, and the reliable giants that still power most of the web. It’s a lot to sort through.

I’ve spent years working across WordPress and various publishing tools, and the one thing I can tell you for sure is this. There’s no single “best” blogging platform for everyone. The right choice depends on whether you care most about owning your content, making money, keeping the setup simple, or just writing and shipping.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the 11 best blogging platforms I’d recommend in 2026. Some are built for serious monetization, others are for people who just want to write. I’ll be honest about where each one shines, where it falls short, and who each platform is actually built for.

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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

Announcement banner: dark blue background with headline 'Say Hello to WPForms QR Code: One Scan Opens Your Form' and a large QR code on the right.

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.