Archived 2015

Documentation is Hard, SIDEKICK Makes it Easy!

It is impossible to write documentation that will provide the best learning experience for our users. In the past, we’ve tried a combination of video walkthroughs and written tutorials to provide the best learning experience for newcomers to Ninja Forms. …

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WordPress Email Sent but Not Received? Increase Email Reliability Today!

Emails seemingly lost in space can be one of the most frustrating experiences of running a website. Here at the Ninja Dojo we receive a significant number of support requests for email responses seemingly not sending. Typically we find that …

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A/B Testing: Why You Should Start Experimenting Today!

So you’ve built your form, it’s collecting leads, everything is peachy. Now let me sow the seeds of doubt… How do you know your form is living up to its potential, that it’s generating as much traffic through to you …

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Context, Efficiency, & Form Conversion: Llamas Require High Fiber Diets

Snarf the bucket blargh bubble bubble. That means something to me, but it’s highly unlikely that the majority of readers read it as anything but gibberish (Thundercats fans might remember an episode where Snarf falls into a mop bucket). The …

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Increase Form Conversion with Privacy & Trust: How Not to Look Like the NSA

Privacy concerns come down to a matter of trust: who do you trust enough to share information with? If you want to increase form conversion, you have to make a conscious effort to convey trustworthiness and a concern for user …

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Every Crowd Has a Silver Lining (and other tips to improve form conversion from dead people)

Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare. Masters of rhetoric and oratory, the human condition and stagecraft. Not three guys you’d usually associate with tips to improve form conversion, are they? Most of us wouldn’t, but then again maybe that’s why 1 in 100 …

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Why Ninja Forms is the 69th (and climbing) most popular plugin in the WordPress Repository

That’s the official word. If you count down the current most popular WordPress plugins within the WordPress repository, we are 69th. That’s out of 39,740 total plugins as of the publishing of this post. Those are the facts, but the …

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3 Steps to Better Form Conversion: Occam’s Razor

Occam’s Razor is the idea that the simplest solution is often the best one unless there’s a really good reason to do otherwise. It’s been applied in the tech world with great success; Steve jobs echoed a similar mentality in …

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Ninja Forms 3.0 is Imminent

When we created Ninja Forms several years ago, we never planned for it to be used in the myriad of ways our innovative users have implemented it…and we couldn’t be prouder of all the amazing use cases you’ve all come …

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Boosting Form Conversion by Improving User Experience
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Deleting Jar Jar Binks

Many times we simply try too hard to get users engaged, and we create a web form that asks too much of the user or that’s just plain irritating to work with. Greater creative minds than our own have fallen …

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Extending the Ninja Forms Actions System

You don’t have to say it, I will: we’ve been bad at posting regularly here at NinjaForms.com. It’s not that we haven’t wanted to create great content for you to read, we’ve just been really busy making Ninja Forms more …

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Four New Extensions Released

We’re always working to improve the Ninja Forms experience, and one of the biggest ways that we can improve is to release more add-ons that allow for more integrations and customisation. This week, we released four new Ninja Forms extensions: WebMerge, Emma, …

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