Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi

  • Joined: 20 December 2024
  • Articles: 9

Introducing Sugar Calendar Bookings – The Easiest Way to Accept Appointments in WordPress

Tired of losing clients because your booking system is clunky, costly, or confusing? Often, it’s because the booking form felt overwhelming, or your scheduling tool sent customers off-site to finish the booking — breaking the flow and costing you conversions. Now imagine an appointment booking… Read More »

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WPBeginner Growth Fund Exits Investment in Seahawk Media and Pro Services to Be Discontinued

Back in 2022, I announced that our WPBeginner Growth Fund had taken an investment stake in Seahawk Media, a promising WordPress services company. Our goal was to combine their service expertise with our platform to launch WPBeginner Pro Services and offer our users high-quality development… Read More »

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Introducing WPChat: Your Live Chat Assistant for WordPress That Converts

Have you ever lost a customer because they couldn’t find an answer fast enough? Maybe they had one simple question before checkout… but couldn’t reach anyone for help. That lost sale probably went straight to your competitor. Now, imagine if you could instantly interact with… Read More »

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How I Blocked 18,000 Spam Lead Attacks in My WordPress Form

Recently, I found over 18,000 spam entries had flooded one of my lead generation forms overnight. And more kept coming, which meant trouble. If I emailed all those fake addresses, it would have increased my email bounce rate – the percentage of emails that don’t… Read More »

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WPBeginner Turns 16 Years Old – Here’s What’s New + a $20,000 WordPress Giveaway

Today, WPBeginner officially turns 16 years old! If WPBeginner was a kid, it would be old enough to drive in Florida. Crazy how time flies. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that what started as a simple WordPress resource site has grown into such an… Read More »

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Best Cloud Hosting Providers for WordPress in 2025 (Expert Pick)

I started building websites in 2006, and like most beginners, I used shared hosting. It was affordable, simple, and got the job done for my early projects. But as my online businesses grew, so did traffic, including on WPBeginner. Shared hosting started slowing me down—literally.… Read More »

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Welcome aThemes to the WPBeginner Family of Products

Today, I’m extremely excited to share that aThemes is joining the Awesome Motive network, and they’re now part of the WPBeginner family of products. aThemes is a popular WordPress theme company known for building beautiful website templates that are optimized for speed and performance. Over… Read More »

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Introducing WPConsent – WordPress Privacy Compliance and Cookie Management Made Easy

Are you risking hefty fines because of outdated cookie consent management? Here’s a shocking fact: Many WordPress websites are non-compliant with current privacy regulations, and the fine for violating GDPR, for example, can be up to €20 million. That’s not a typo – millions! If… Read More »

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Introducing ClickSocial: Social Media Scheduling & Posting for WordPress

Do you want to get more social media traffic and followers for your website? Every smart marketer knows that sharing good content across your social media accounts is a proven way to boost traffic and engagement. However, the problem is that social media sharing and… Read More »

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