Category: WordPress Tutorials

A complete list of WordPress tutorials for bloggers and WP enthusiasts. This includes WordPress settings, themes configurations and even WP security.

  • WP Engine Automated Migration – A Game Changer In The Industry? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 2

    WP Engine Automated Migration – A Game Changer In The Industry? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 2

    Before we talk about the all new, WP Engine Automated Migration plugin, let’s talk about WordPress migration process.

    The process of migrating to a new host is messy. Believe me; it is not pretty and chances of error is high.

    Throughout my blogging career, I have been migrating from one host to another, to find a web host I can truly call ‘home.’ You are in the industry for some time; you would know that some web hosts will provide free migration while others provide paid migration services.
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  • Why I Moved To A Fully Managed WordPress Hosting? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 1

    Why I Moved To A Fully Managed WordPress Hosting? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 1

    I’m not going to lie to you. Moving to a fully managed WordPress hosting, WP Engine is probably the best choice I had ever taken in my life (after marrying my lovely wife).

    You know that I’ve long been a huge fan of fully managed WordPress hosting, and I did quite a few reviews including WP Engine review a couple of years back.

    On and off, I move from one web hosting company to another, trying to find a place I can truly call ‘home.’ Through my years of blogging, I was lucky to be able to try a huge number of fully managed WordPress hostings such as:
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  • Thrive Themes vs Genesis Theme Framework: Which is the best now?

    Thrive Themes vs Genesis Theme Framework: Which is the best now?

    Being a WordPress user myself for over a decade, choosing the best WordPress theme is always a huge challenge. Thankfully, I stumbled upon Genesis Theme Framework (also known as Genesis Framework by StudioPress). Until today, Genesis Theme Framework is my go-to choice when it comes to awesome design and flexibility. Apart from Genesis, I am also an avid user of Thrive Themes.
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  • TemplateToaster Review – Designing Templates and Themes in Minutes

    TemplateToaster Review – Designing Templates and Themes in Minutes

    You know that I’m a huge fan of WordPress premium themes. When I was reached out to do an honest review on TemplateToaster, I know that I have to jump in and try it out.

    For the record, I heard about TemplateToaster for some time now. Sure, I have been pretty much away for most of the time because I am pretty tied caught up with my freelance writing but this is just too good of a deal to pass through.
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  • Thrive Themes vs OptimizePress: Comparing side by side

    Thrive Themes vs OptimizePress: Comparing side by side

    Thrive Themes vs OptimizePress. I know.

    You are looking for the most complete Thrive Themes vs OptimizePress comparison and yes, you are in the right spot. Being in the WordPress niche for around 10 years, it is only fair to say that I have seen quite a few WordPress builders. (more…)

  • FormGet Review: A Powerful Contact Form Builder For Creating Forms & Collecting Payments

    FormGet Review: A Powerful Contact Form Builder For Creating Forms & Collecting Payments

    Guest Blogger

    Deep Wadhwa blogs at BloggersDog. I believe in helping people around. You can call me thinker; believer or exceptional writer.

    Today I am going to share my review about a new yet potential product that I came across recently. It’s FormGet– an application that helps you create any kinds of online forms.

    From Contact Forms To Guest List Planner Forms, it can be used to create any of them, in whichever way you want. So let’s take a look on how it works! Check this video that shows instant form building.

    Why it grabbed my attention???

    Its POWERFUL INTERFACE

    FormGet has got such a powerful yet easy interface that you will not get stuck anywhere from adding fields to embedding it on your site. It’s all in a flow all hassle free. The smooth interface makes your form building easy. Just clicking on the form fields will do the work. After adding form fields, you can rename them, give your form a new title relevant to your form and further drag and drop fields if you want to adjust their positions. Now click on “Next” and your form is ready.

    Setting up FormGet contact form builder

     

    Grab the Eyeballs

    The overall look of the form is elegant and attractive. It will surely grab your visitors eyeball.When your form gets ready, it gets navigated to a page where you will find different default “Design Templates” which you can use on your forms or else you can customize the form colors and your form footer section manually within the tab “Form Colors” and “Footer Settings”. You can even insert Paragraphs, Video , Images on your form Once the form is completed , you can use the Embed Code and embed the form on your site. Its as simple as that..

    You also can use them as tabbed widget, which looks cool when you put it on your website.

    Types of forms on FormGet

     

    Get Notified

    Every time you get an entry on your form you will receive an email-notification notifying you about the entry. The user also gets an email confirming about his form submission. The acknowledgment is necessary and FormGet has this feature.

     

    Share Your Forms

    The next amazing feature that caught my attention was its usage for those who don’t own a website. Everyone out there who thought about creating website and then create forms to collect information can just opt for FormGet blindly. It gives you a form URL with which you can share your form anywhere you want. Also it has social sharing options where you can share your form on different social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest. So, all those who want to collect leads without website, you must surely give a try to this app.

     

    Do Smarter Email Marketing

    Its Email Integration with all major email marketing service providers makes it even more compelling and robust. If you have an account with any of these email marketing providers like MailChimp,

    Madmimi, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor etc. then you can easily store the leads coming through your forms to your mailing list. And now since you have the target customers information with

    you, shoot your marketing strategies with email campaigns. Not just this, it can also be integrated with Dropbox which can help save and manage the file uploads coming through the forms. Turns out to be really helpful..isn’t it? You can go through the videos for integration here.

     

    Make Money Out of Your Forms

    FormGet is integrated with payment gateway PayPal and so now you can collect payments via Forms. It’s easy, just add a Payment field to your form and rest it will do. So not just leads, you can make some good cash too, with these online forms. Its beneficial for those who want to create Hotel Booking Forms, Online Order Forms, Fee Registration Forms etc.

     

    Assign Forms

    Amidst trying this app I wondered, what if I have to create multiple forms for multiple sites. How will I manage all forms together? And then I stumbled upon its Agent Feature. This amazing feature allows you to assign forms to your team members and get the work shared. The team members or agents can handle the leads coming in through their assigned forms and manage them easily making the work much simpler and elementary. Its beneficial for large businesses where multiple forms are to be handled.

    FormGet Sharing Features

     

    Analyze Your Forms

    The form statistics is definitely a turn on as you can track how good is your form doing. It will show your form statistics according to views and entries, which can help you analyze which of your forms is better in collecting information.

    Apart from all these highlighted features, FormGet has got many tiny yet substantial features, like you can track the entry users details on your dashboard like country, OS and browser. You can also track the point of contact at which they entered on your form. Language Translation that enables you to create forms in your native language will also help your forms to penetrate in your local regions. Field validations, captcha to help avoid spams, real-time conversation with entry users etc are some of the other features.

     

    FormGet review

     

     

    Conclusion:

    FormGet is definitely promising when it comes to its features and management. It’s easy to use interface and robust features will make you form building experience better. It will not make you regret if you want to create effective online forms effortlessly. You can sign up for the free trial here and see if it will help you with your form creation.