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A collection of missives and messages, along with nerd talk and company carryings-on.
Why You Need a Privacy Policy If You Are Using a Contact Form
By Gravity FormsWritten by Donata Kalnenaite When you really sit back and think about it, contact forms are a bit magic – anyone, anywhere in the world could inquire about you or the products or services that you offer at any time. This sure beats the old ways of snail mail! Contact forms allow you to make more sales, provide better customer support and simply grow your business, making them indispensable and thus featured on almost every modern website. Unfortunately, there is one thing that you need to keep an eye out for if you have a form on your website, and that’s compliance with privacy laws. Spoiler alert: there are many great solutions to help you with this compliance!
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Need a Privacy Policy on Your Website? Let Us Introduce You to Termageddon
By Gravity FormsIn 2020, the issues around consumer privacy and collecting customer data are paramount for websites and businesses across the globe. The bottom line is, if you display so much as a contact form on your website, then you need to invest in a privacy policy for your site. You also need a strategy in place to ensure that the policy stays up to date as new and future privacy laws go into effect.
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How to Translate Gravity Forms to Create a Multilingual WordPress Form
By Gravity FormsWith Gravity Forms, you have the ability to create flexible WordPress forms for everything, from contact and purchase forms, to front-end post submission forms, and lots more. However, one thing you can’t do in the core Gravity Forms plugin is to translate all those powerful forms, making them accessible to people who speak different languages.
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Introducing the Official PayPal Commerce Platform Add-On
By Gravity FormsPayPal Commerce Platform: An All-In-One Global Commerce Solution Gravity Forms is excited to announce its integration with PayPal Commerce Platform. Ideal for eCommerce solution providers, online marketplaces, and crowdfunding platforms, this Commerce Platform combines PayPal’s most advanced technologies, tools, and services, to enable your sellers to accept payments from customers around the globe.
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Update on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
By Gravity FormsTo the Gravity Forms community, We want to quickly touch base with you regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus). First and foremost, we hope that you and your loved ones are well. Concerns over COVID-19 are spreading across the globe and with an international team at Gravity Forms, we are monitoring the worldwide situation like you. With each new day, we are likely to see more cases, more news, and more impacts to our daily lives. Amidst this uncertainty, we hope to provide any stability we can, even if that’s only for your WordPress site.
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How to Use Gravity Forms Entries to Create and Display a Calendar
By Gravity FormsDo you want your website to keep your audience updated on relevant events happening in your industry, company, or locale? An events calendar plugin may be the perfect way to manage this process. Creating and displaying a calendar on your WordPress website grants users easy access to information regarding relevant events in a familiar calendar format.
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5 WordPress Security Tips to Protect Your Website
By Gravity FormsYou may think your website has no appeal to hackers, but think again: On average, 30,000 websites are hacked every day, allowing cyber criminals to distribute malicious codes to website visitors and obtain sensitive information from your clients and customers. WordPress now powers 34 percent of the Internet, making it one of the most popular CMS platforms, but this popularity means that hackers have had a lot of practice finding the platform’s vulnerabilities thanks to automated software and tried and tested techniques. To keep your website from being compromised, here are five tips to combat the most common WordPress security issues, as well as the best WordPress security plugins to keep your site safe.
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How to Create an Email Marketing Campaign In Just 5 Steps
By Gravity FormsDo you have an upcoming email marketing campaign that you really need to make a splash? If you’ve tried to attract attention and increase conversions with your campaigns to no avail, this article is for you. We’ll teach you the best practices you need to start implementing to see the results you’ve been hoping for. Read on to discover the 5 steps you can follow to make your next email marketing campaign your most effective to date.
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