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How to Create an Order Form Without Payment in WordPress

Do you want to create an order form without payment in WordPress? Perhaps your business receives payments in-person, or maybe you offer consultations before requiring payment.

There are lots of reasons to create an order form without payment!

And with the WPForms drag-and-drop form builder, it’s really easy to do. In fact, I’ll show you how to do it with just 3 steps, 3 different ways.

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How to create your macro calculator in WordPress

How To Create Your Own Macro Calculator in WordPress

Looking for a straightforward way to create your own Macro calculator for a health & fitness business website?

You’ll be glad to hear that WPForms can help create calculator forms that automatically estimate daily calorie targets for various fitness goals.

So, if you’re trying to provide your website visitors with a quick approach to estimate their IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros), follow the steps in this guide!

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Google Business Profile Closing? Replace it With a Website!

Is Google shutting down your business profile?

The solution is simply to replace your profile with a website. It’s a lot easier than you might think. In fact, one page and a contact form are really all you need.

And I can show you how to do it!

In this article, I’ll walk you through the process of replacing your Google Business Profile with a website. It takes only a few steps. 

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How to Set Up WP Mail SMTP With Gmail (2 Options)

As someone who relies on WordPress for managing my website, I know how crucial it is to ensure emails from my site actually reach my audience.

Sending WordPress emails through Gmail SMTP is a great idea to improve deliverability and avoid emails going to the spam folder.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the steps on how to configure the Google Workspace / Gmail mailer in WP Mail SMTP via 2 different methods.

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How to Fix Could Not Connect to SMTP Host in WordPress

How to Fix Could Not Connect to SMTP Host in WordPress

Are you seeing the “could not connect to SMTP Host” error in WordPress?

This is an issue that frequently pops up for WP Mail SMTP users. However, the error isn’t caused by the plugin. The problem is usually on the hosting or server side.

Whatever the case, the good thing is that you can usually solve this issue by following a few steps.

In this post, we’ll walk you through different methods for fixing the “could not connect to SMTP host” error in WP Mail SMTP.

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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.

Integration New Feature Payments

Mercado Pago Addon

Introducing the WPForms Mercado Pago Addon: Card Payments Built for Latin America

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.