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!
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.
Do you want an easy way to set up WordPress recurring payments?
Recurring online payments help scale your sales or donations. You get predictable income without spending time chasing up payments.
In this article, we’ll show you how to set up recurring payments in WordPress using fully customizable forms.
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Getting flooded with fake user registrations is a serious security risk that can slow down your site and create a mess in your user database.
I’ve dealt with this issue countless times, and it’s frustrating to see spambots creating dozens of fake accounts every day. The good news is that you don’t need to be a security expert to stop these fake registrations.
In this guide, I’ll share nine battle-tested tricks that will help you eliminate fake user registrations on your WordPress site. These are the same strategies I’ve used to reduce spam registrations by up to 99% in most cases!
I see you working hard on your new WordPress website, perfecting every detail before the big launch. But what about visitors who stumble upon your domain in the meantime? You don’t want them to see a half-finished site or, worse, an error page. This is where knowing how to create a coming soon page in […]