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How to Export WordPress Form Entries to Excel

Need to get your form entries out of WordPress and into Excel? Exporting your form data makes it much easier to organize information, share it with others, or do simple reporting.

I’ve helped clients do this countless times, especially when they need to work with their form data outside WordPress. Some wanted to send reports to their team, and others preferred managing everything in spreadsheets.

If you’re looking to achieve something similar, I’ll walk you through the exact steps to get your WordPress form entries to Excel. It’s simple, quick, and something you can do even if you’re not very familiar with technical processes.

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How to Display a Map With Your WordPress Contact Form

Want to add a map to your WordPress contact form so visitors can easily find your business location? Adding a map to your contact form helps visitors know exactly where you’re located before they reach out.

It’s especially useful if you have a physical storefront, office, or service area that customers need to visit. But maps on contact forms can do more than just display your location.

With the right setup, you can also help visitors fill out address fields faster with autocomplete, or even display multiple locations if you have several offices or stores.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you two ways to add maps to your contact forms in WordPress. Both methods use WPForms and its Geolocation addon. Let’s get started!

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How to Add Form Placeholder Text

How to Add Placeholder Text to Your WordPress Forms

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!

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How to Hide Your WordPress Site Until It’s Ready (Simple Tutorial)

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.

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How to Create a WordPress Date Picker Form (Step by Step)

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.

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Recurring Payments in WordPress

How to Accept Recurring Payments in WordPress (2026 Guide)

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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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.

AI New Feature

WPForms Analytics

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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.