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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Version 2.9.12 – Better Upgrades
A few months ago, a new developer joined our team. He has made our development environment more efficient and enjoyable, and we just generally like having him around. Kyle has spent the last few months committing lots of bug fixes …
Ninja Forms soon to offer an ALL-IN option
We launched 2.0 of Ninja Forms on the add-on model in January of 2013. It was an instant success as sales started to increase month after month. We had filled an empty space in the WordPress form builder market. Just …
Webhooks for Ninja Forms
We’re happy to introduce you to the newest member of the Ninja Forms family: Ninja Forms – Webhooks! If you use a web service that accepts GET or POST requests, you can now send data to it when a user submits a Ninja …
Security Release: v2.9.11
We just released version 2.9.11 of Ninja Forms. This update addresses a possible security vulnerability, and I wanted to take a minute to talk about what that vulnerability was and how it might impact our users. First, the vulnerability only …
Version 2.9 – Improving User Experience
We’re very excited to announce the release of version 2.9 of Ninja Forms! Version 2.9 has been in the works for about three months, and we can’t wait to reveal it to the world. The focus of this release is …
Introducing Zapier for Ninja Forms
We are excited to announce the official Ninja Forms – Zapier integration. Zapier is an amazing web service that helps you save time by letting you automatically move data between 300+ of the most popular web apps. Developed by Fatcat …
Saving data and a users reasonable expectations
There are just some “features” that we will never add to Ninja Forms no matter how much they are requested. It’s not because we don’t respect the needs and wants of our users. It’s because sometimes as a company you have …
Create side-tabs with Multi-Part Forms
This isn’t requested very often but occasionally we get a customer that wants to display their Multi-Part form in a less conventional way than just simple top breadcrumb format. The usual alternative requested is side-tabs. In this quick tutorial I …
Conditional Logic version 1.3 – Conditional Notifications
Conditional Logic is the 3rd most popular extension available for Ninja Forms, but after today we think it’s going to get a lot more popular. We’ve worked really hard to tackle the issues that can sometimes cause users confusion, while …