Shares of Hims & Hers(NYSE: HIMS) stock sank 17% this week, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The telehealth platform is delivering huge revenue growth but is at risk of a legal battle with weight loss drugmakers. Shares of the stock are down 25% from all-time highs but are up 400% in the past five years due to the platform's fast growth.
Here's why the stock sank this week.
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Fast growth but a looming lawsuit
In the second quarter of 2025, Hims & Hers' revenue grew 73% year over year to over $500 million, making it one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. This was driven by 30% growth in total subscribers to Hims & Hers products and 30% growth in spend per active subscriber. The company offers telehealth services for basic pharmaceuticals such as hair loss, sexual wellness, and weight loss drugs.
While the company is growing quickly and now generating a profit, Hims & Hers is facing a looming legal battle with Novo Nordisk. The innovator in weight loss drugs originally had a partnership with Hims & Hers but pulled out of the deal because of disagreements over Hims & Hers selling knockoffs of its weight loss drug formula. Hims & Hers was permitted to sell patented weight loss drugs while they were in shortage, but now that the shortage is over, it is breaking the law by selling patented drugs to customers at a discount.
Unsurprisingly, Hims & Hers is getting sued for this practice, which is a fast-growing part of its business. Investors are worried about the future impacts of this legal battle and how it could hurt Hims & Hers' future revenue growth and profitability.
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Should you buy Hims & Hers stock?
Hims & Hers has been an incredible stock to own over the last few years, making shareholders rich. It has $2 billion in trailing revenue, up over 1,000% in the last five years. By far, it is the leading telehealth provider for drugs and medical treatments over the internet, making a ton of inroads in market share gains in the last few years.
If there were no legal battle looming, Hims & Hers would probably be a buy on this dip. However, we cannot ignore the potential legal ramifications and huge risk Hims & Hers management is putting on itself and shareholders by blatantly selling patented weight loss drugs on its website. This legal battle is not likely to end well. Don't buy the dip on Hims & Hers stock until its dispute with the weight loss drugmakers is resolved.
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On Friday, the Texas Department of Agriculture announced the debut of TDA Swormlure, a synthetic bait designed to attract the flies with a scent that mimics open flesh wounds, which are critical to the lifecycle of the fly, called the New World Screwworm. The parasite exploits any open wound or orifice on a wide range of warm-blooded animals to feed its ravenous spawn. Female flies lay hundreds of eggs in even the tiniest abrasion. From there, screw-shaped larvae—which give the flies their name—emerge to literally twist and bore into their victim, eating them alive and causing a putrid, life-threatening lesion. (You can see a graphic example here on a deer.)
The new lure for the flies is just one of several defense efforts in Texas, which stands to suffer heavy livestock losses from an invasion. Screwworms are a ferocious foe to many animals, but are particularly devastating to farm animals.
Dozens of porn sites are turning to a familiar source to generate likes on Facebook—malware that causes browsers to surreptitiously endorse the sites. This time, the sites are using a newer vehicle for sowing this malware—.svg image files.
The Scalable Vector Graphics format is an open standard for rendering two-dimensional graphics. Unlike more common formats such as .jpg or .png, .svg uses XML-based text to specify how the image should appear, allowing files to be resized without losing quality due to pixelation. But therein lies the rub: The text in these files can incorporate HTML and JavaScript, and that, in turn, opens the risk of them being abused for a range of attacks, including cross-site scripting, HTML injection, and denial of service.
Case of the silent clicker
Security firm Malwarebytes on Friday said it recently discovered that porn sites have been seeding boobytrapped .svg files to select visitors. When one of these people clicks on the image, it causes browsers to surreptitiously register a like for Facebook posts promoting the site.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William Alsup, seemingly did not. Alsup allegedly failed to conduct a "rigorous analysis" of the potential class and instead based his judgment on his "50 years" of experience, Anthropic said.
If the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.
A Precision Neuroscience researcher examines the company's product: A thin layer of film that sits on top of the brain.
Precision Neuroscience
Precision Neuroscience is developing a brain implant that sits on the surface of the brain's cortex.
Founded by Neuralink alums in 2021, the company aims to bring a "minimally invasive" BCI to market.
Its first goal is to "restore independence" to the millions with paralysis.
Even in a city where high-stakes deals are made daily, few would expect that behind an unassuming Manhattan facade lies a team of neuroscientists developing a device that could change the relationship between machines and humans.
But change often hides in plain sight, undetectable until it isn't.
Precision Neuroscience is developing a brain-computer interface, a system that creates a direct link between the brain's electrical activity and a computer. This type of technology has been in development for decades, but thanks to AI, the latest generation promises to reveal a wealth of new information about the brain.
I met Precision's president and chief product officer, Craig Mermel, in March at an AI conference. The company stood out as one of a few hardware companies among a sea of startups building productivity tools and coding platforms.
The AI boom, Mermel told me, had turbocharged modern medicine's capacity to collect data about the brain. At a moment when many of the conference attendees talked about the technology's implicationsin broad terms, Mermel made them seem real — and imminent.
Precision was founded in 2021 by a group that included some Neuralink alums, including Ben Rapoport, a practicing neurosurgeon and electrical engineer who now serves as its chief science officer.
The company's initial goal is to "restore independence" to severely paralyzed people in a less invasive way than its competitors, like Neuralink. That means helping those with paralysis communicate with others, use computers, or even hold a desk job by channeling their neural activity into commands for external technologies.
"The set of conditions that we're treating all have in common is paralysis. So it's people who basically have the ability to think like we do, but not the ability to move, especially move their hands," Rapoport told me during a visit to the company's office.
How it works
Rapoport handed me a slip of yellow film, which the company calls the "Layer 7 Cortical Interface." The name reflects its ambitious goal: to create a seventh layer that sits atop the six cellular layers of the human cortex, the brain's outermost region.
How the Layer 7 Cortical Interface appears on the brain's surface.
Precision Neuroscience
The Layer 7 Cortical Interface is about one-fifth the thickness of a human eyelash. One end is embedded with an array of 1,024 electrodes that can record and stimulate brain activity. These electrodes have wires that run lengthwise, linking the film to custom electronics that process neural data and convert those signals into computer commands so patients can interact with the real world using thoughts alone.
The device is designed to rest on the brain's motor cortex — a small region located behind the frontal lobe that translates thoughts into actions — and conform to its surface, never directly damaging the tissue.
Once in place, it generates a detailed view of the brain's activity. Or, as Precision puts it on its website, "the world's highest resolution picture of human thought."
The competition
Rapoport was part of the founding team at Neuralink, Elon Musk's high-profile neurotechnology venture. It launched in 2016 and has raised about $1.3 billion, according to PitchBook.
He told the newsletter Neurotech Futures last year that he left Neuralink in 2018 because brain-computer interface technology needed to be extremely safe and scalable for it to become a "clinical reality."
"Some changes were needed in the way the technology was being implemented," he said.
Neuralink's N1 implant is a coin-sized, battery-powered device that sits on the skull and connects to ultra-thin threads — embedded with electrodes — that are woven into the brain's cortex.
In an April 2024 update on its website about the status of its clinical trials, Neuralink detailed how the implant is inserted into the brain.
"At a high level, the surgery involved a neurosurgeon exposing the target region of the cortex (e.g., scalp incision, craniectomy, durectomy), the R1 Robot performing the insertions of threads of the N1 Implant, and the neurosurgeon mounting the body of the N1 Implant in the craniectomy and closing the scalp."
In a follow-up email to Business Insider, Mermelsaid Neuralink's system is based on "penetrating micro-electrodes, which cause damage when they're inserted into the brain."
Precision, he said, has shown that it is "possible to extract information-rich data from the brain" without damaging it.
Neuralink did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
In July, Neuralink announced it had successfully completed implant surgeries on its eighth and ninth human patients. The company is expecting to implant 20,000 chips a year by 2031 to generate at least $1 billion in revenue, Bloomberg reported.
Invasive forms of brain-computer interfaces typically involve implanting electrodes directly into the brain by way of a craniotomy, which involves removing a section of the skull to temporarily expose the brain, or acraniectomy, in which the removed bone is not replaced.
Blackrock's Neurotech, which launched in 2008, makes a modified version of the Utah Array — a micro-electrode array that penetrates up to 1.5 millimeters into the brain. It's been used for "studying neural circuits, investigating the mechanisms of brain function, and developing neural prosthetic devices," according to Neurotech's website.
Synchron, another company in the BCI race, makes a "Stentrode," a thin, flexible electrode array that doesn't require open-skull surgery. Instead, it's inserted into the brain through the jugular vein. Its aim is to "restore control of a touchscreen in people with limited hand mobility using only their thoughts," according to its website.
What's different about Precision
Precision Neuroscience says its first goal is to "restore independence" to millions of people with paralysis.
Precision Neuroscience
Rapoport's thesis is that placing the device on the brain's surface itself is less invasive than its competitors and enough to gather valuable intel about how the brain operates.
"When we think about the ways that we want the brain to interface with the digital world, most of what we think about is the conscious thought that takes place in the brain," he said. "Essentially all of that takes place at the surface" in the "outermost few millimeters."
The company's Layer 7 Cortical Interface is designed to be easily replaced or moved. It's also modular, so multiple arrays can be combined to cover more regions of the brain.
The device is just one component, however. The method of insertion is another.
Precision is also developing a minimally invasive "cranial microslit" implant procedure to bypass the need for a full craniotomy, Mermelsaid by email. This involves making a small incision, less than 1 millimeter into the skull, through which the Layer 7 Cortical Interface is inserted and placed on the brain's surface, he said.
Clinical studies
In 2021, the FDA gave Synchron a green light to start clinical trials. In 2023, Neuralink received approval to start trials. Precision, at an earlier stage in its road to commercialization, announced its first clinical studies in 2023.
Since then, the company has conducted clinical studies on 47 volunteer patients — all of whom were already undergoing brain surgery for other reasons. The devices were placed on their brains during surgery to read, record, and map activity on the brain's surface.
In these clinical studies — limited to 15 to 30 minutes — one or two electrode arrays were typically placed on a patient's brain while they engaged in activities such as speaking, playing rock-paper-scissors, or operating a joystick, so AI algorithmscouldlearn the typical neural patterns associated with that activity.
In April, Precision said it received FDA clearance to use its electrode array in the "recording, monitoring, and stimulation of electrical activity on the surface of the brain." The clearance authorizes the array for commercial use for up to 30 days. Studies are already underway, but the company declined to share the number of patients who are participating in these longer clinical studies.
Precision Neuroscience is mapping the electrical activity of the brain.
Precision Neuroscience
The value of the data
Brain-computer interfaces serve as translators of sorts, converting the brain's electrical language into the vernacular of machines — and eventually, into real-world action.
Precision says its system captures about 1 to 2 billion data points per minute from each patient. It analyzes the data in real time and leverages AI algorithms to translate the raw data and electrical signals into computer code.
The goal is to collect data from a diverse sample of patients, Rapoport said.
"In the entire field of neuroscience, we have never had such a diverse set of high-quality, high-resolution, long-term recordings from dozens of patients' brains until we started doing this, and this includes Neuralink," he said.
Between all of its studies, it has gathered enough data to begin building what he described as a "neural foundation model."
The main focus of this machine learning model will be to decode speech and motor intention from the brain to ultimately help patients control computers and smartphones, Mermel said. However, he added, the company is exploring future use cases for its technology, including assisting surgeons during neurosurgery, treating conditions such as depression, and aiding in stroke recovery.
"When you have something that is safe and effective for a niche group of people, it begs the question: Are there ways to scale it beyond that original use case?" Rapoport said.
WaveForms, founded just eight months ago, last raised $40 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the company at $160 million pre-money, per PitchBook data.
A lot of people are overly reliant on Google. They put all of their important messages, appointments, musings, contacts, and spreadsheets into Google products. Many are aware that Google, like many tech firms, is likely to prioritize its own interests over user privacy. But signing data away for technological conveniences is a common occurrence.
Murena's Pixel Tablet takes a stance against that norm. It's Google’s Pixel Tablet hardware running an Android fork but without any Google tracking or Google apps. While I still found myself heading back to Google services while using the tablet, Murena’s gadget reminded me of how feasible it is to limit Big Tech’s reach into my life.
De-Googled Android
Instead of running standard Android like Google’s 2023 Pixel Tablet, Murena’s Pixel Tablet runs /e/OS, an open source mobile operating system (OS) built by e Foundation. Mandrake Linux distribution creator Gaël Duval founded /e/OS, which is a fork of LineageOS, an open source version of Google's Android source code.
If you regularly collect form submissions in WordPress, then exporting that data manually can quickly become a chore. Whether you’re tracking leads, orders, or feedback, downloading all those entries one by one takes time, and it’s easy to miss something important.
Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t offer a built-in way to auto export form entries. But with WPForms, I discovered that I could automate the entire process using their export tool—no need to install extra plugins or mess with custom code.
Instead of manually downloading CSV files or copying data from the dashboard, WPForms saves entries in clean, structured files on a schedule you can control.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to set up automatic form exports in WPForms so that your submissions stay organized without any extra effort.
Why Auto Export WordPress Form Entries?
Automatically exporting WordPress form entries lets you save and organize data from those form submissions without any manual effort.
Instead of logging in to download submissions every time someone fills out a form, you can automatically send the data to your email, cloud storage account, or another connected app.
It’s a simple way to keep everything sorted, backed up, and accessible, without having to think about it.
Most WordPress website owners rely on forms to collect leads, orders, feedback, or bookings. But once submissions start adding up, manually managing them takes more and more time. That’s where auto export becomes really useful.
With automatic exports, you can:
Back up form entries to a location you control.
Cut down on repetitive admin work.
Keep your data organized and easy to access.
Avoid missing or overlooking submissions.
Simplify your reporting and follow-up process.
Once it’s running, auto export takes care of everything in the background, so you can focus on the work that actually moves your site forward.
Now, I’ll show you how to auto export form entries using WPForms:
The best way to auto export WordPress form entries is by using WPForms, which is the best contact form plugin for WordPress.
It comes with a powerful Entry Automation addon designed exactly for this purpose.
Whether you want to email reports regularly, back up submissions to Google Drive, or automatically delete entries after they’re processed, this addon quietly handles everything in the background—no manual steps required.
At WPBeginner, we use WPForms ourselves to create all kinds of forms, from simple contact forms to our annual reader survey.
We’ve also tested all its features thoroughly and included them in our detailed WPForms review.
It’s one of those tools that just works and saves us time behind the scenes, which is why I confidently recommend it to beginners and pros alike.
Plus, getting started with it is quick and easy.
Step 1: Install and Activate the WPForms Plugin
First, you need to install and activate the WPForms plugin.
👉 Note: WPForms offers a free version that you can use to create basic contact forms. However, the Entry Automation addon is only available with the Elite plan.
Upon plugin activation, you have to activate your license key. To do this, go to the WPForms » Settings page in your WordPress dashboard and add your license key.
You can get this information from your account area on the WPForms website. This will unlock all the features available in your plan, including access to premium addons like Entry Automation.
Now that your license is active, head over to the WPForms » Addons page from your WordPress admin sidebar.
Here, look for the ‘Entry Automation Addon’ in the list. Once you find it, click the ‘Install Addon’ button to activate it on your website.
Step 2: Set Up the Form You’ll Use for Automatic Exports
Now that WPForms and the Entry Automation addon are active, it’s time to create the form with the entries you want to export automatically.
To get started, visit the WPForms » Add New page in your WordPress dashboard and a name for your form.
Then, you can either choose a premade template like a contact form, registration form, or feedback form—or build one from scratch using the drag-and-drop builder.
If you want to speed things up even more, WPForms includes an AI Form Builder that can generate a complete form for you in seconds.
All you have to do is type in a short prompt, like ‘a simple customer feedback form,’ and the AI will instantly create a form with the right fields, layout, and structure. I’ve tested this feature myself, and it works really well.
Now, you will be taken to the visual builder where you can easily customize your form by dragging fields from the left panel into your form layout on the right.
You can add fields like Name, Email, Dropdowns, Checkboxes, File Upload, and more based on the type of information you need to collect.
If you’d like more help building the right form, I’ve got you covered. At WPBeginner, we’ve written step-by-step tutorials to walk you through different form types:
Once your form looks good, you can configure its confirmation email settings. Then, click the ‘Save’ button at the top to store your changes.
Step 3: Set Up Automatic Export for Your Form Submissions
Now that your form is ready, it’s time to automate your exports so that you don’t have to manually download form entries ever again.
To do this, switch to the Settings » Entry Automation tab in the WPForms builder. This is where you’ll manage everything related to automatic exporting and deleting entries.
To begin, click the ‘Add New Task’ button.
Once you do that, a prompt will open up, where you have to give a name to your task. I recommend choosing something clear like ‘Weekly Contact Form Export to Email’ so it’s easy to remember later.
This task will be like setting up a small workflow for your form. You can even create multiple tasks for one form, such as one task to send weekly email reports and another to back up entries to Google Drive.
After entering the name, click the ‘OK’ button to move forward.
Next, you’ll be asked to choose a task type.
WPForms gives you two options: Export Entries and Delete Entries. For now, you need to select the ‘Export Entries’ option.
You can always come back later and set up a deletion task if needed. For example, to automatically remove old submissions after 30 days.
After choosing to export entries, you’ll see a few settings related to how your export file should be named. You can type a name manually, but I recommend using Smart Tags.
These tags can automatically pull in things like the form name or the date, which helps keep your files organized without any extra work on your part.
Just click the Smart Tag icon to see your options and insert the ones that make sense for you.
Next, let’s talk about how your form entries will be exported and where they’ll end up. I recommend choosing your file format first — this determines how your data will be organized when it’s sent out.
WPForms gives you several file types to pick from, and each one has its own advantages:
CSV – The default option, perfect for spreadsheet tools like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
Excel (XLSX) – This format preserves basic styling and structure, making reports look cleaner and more professional right out of the box. I recommend this option if you plan to share the file directly with clients or non-techy people who use Microsoft Excel.
PDF – Great for clean, printable summaries. I like this option when I want something polished to share in a meeting.
JSON – Best suited for developers or users integrating the data into other systems or apps.
Once that is done, it’s time to decide where the exported file should go.
WPForms lets you automate this too, so you don’t have to manually send or upload anything. Here are your destination options:
Google Drive – Save a copy of the export directly to your Google Drive account.
Dropbox – Store the file in your Dropbox folder for easy sharing and access.
FTP – Upload the export to a server using FTP. This option is designed for more advanced users or developers who need to send data to a custom application or a separate server.
Once you select your destination, WPForms will walk you through the connection steps.
For example, if you choose ‘Email’, then you will need to add the email address where the entries would be sent. On the other hand, if you choose Dropbox, then you will have to integrate it with WPForms.
However, you don’t need to worry, since the plugin makes the process super beginner-friendly. Just follow the steps on the screen.
Step 4: Choose Form Fields and Apply Entry Filters Before Exporting
After setting your export format and destination, scroll down to configure what data should be included in the export and whether you want to filter the entries.
First, you’ll see the ‘Entry Information’ section. This area is neatly divided into two parts: Form Fields and Additional Information, giving you full control over what gets shared.
Under ‘Form Fields’, you’ll see the actual fields from your form—like Name, Email, and Comment or Message. Just check the boxes for the fields you want to include.
If you’re exporting a longer form with multiple inputs, you can use the ‘Select All’ option to save time.
Then there’s the ‘Additional Information’ section. This includes extra details that WPForms tracks automatically, like Entry ID, Entry Date, Entry Notes, and Type.
You can select any combination of these fields to customize your export. I’ve found this especially useful if you only need a few key pieces of information for a weekly report or want to hide internal notes before sharing a file externally.
Below that is the ‘Filter’ section. This is where you can narrow down your export to include only the entries that meet certain conditions—for example, submissions from a certain date range or entries that include specific responses.
By default, WPForms sets the filter to ‘Any Field contains’, but you can customize this to narrow down entries based on specific form fields and values.
For example, if your contact form includes a dropdown like ‘Reason for Contact’, you could filter to only export entries where the reason is ‘Support Request’ or ‘Business Inquiry’.
This helps keep your exports focused on the types of messages you care about most.
You can also filter based on the status of the entry. WPForms lets you choose whether to include entries that are Published, Abandoned, or marked as Spam.
I recommend this filter if you want clean, finalized submissions in your export, or if you want to analyze incomplete or flagged messages separately.
Additionally, you can choose to export all contact form entries or just the new submissions since your last export. This is a useful option for automating reports without duplicating data.
Once you’ve chosen which fields and filters to apply, WPForms will tailor the export exactly to your needs.
Step 5: Schedule WordPress Form Entries Export
Once your export settings and filters are in place, the final step is to schedule when you want WPForms to run the export automatically.
For this, scroll down to the ‘Schedule’ section.
You can start by choosing how often the export should happen. You can set it to run daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on how often you need updates.
Next, pick the specific day(s) you want the export to run—like every Monday or the 1st of each month. You also need to add a start date and, optionally, an end date if you’re only exporting for a limited time.
WPForms will run the export at midnight by default, but you can customize the time of day to fit your team’s workflow or reporting schedule.
Once that’s done, the plugin takes care of the rest—automatically generating and sending the export file exactly as you configured.
💡Bonus Tip: To start collecting entries, you’ll also need to embed the form you just configured into a page on your website. For details, check out our step-by-step guide on how to embed forms in WordPress.
Step 6: Add a Task to Delete Form Entries After Export (Optional)
Once your form is live and the automation is running, you can go one step further by setting up a separate task to delete the entries after they’ve been exported.
WPForms doesn’t bundle this into the export task itself. Instead, you’ll need to create a new task with the ‘Delete Entries’ option and configure it to run after the export.
Don’t forget to toggle the ‘Run After Previous Task’ switch to make sure the tasks run in sequence.
You can even drag to reorder the tasks, so deletion only happens once the data has been safely exported.
This is a great way to keep your WordPress database lean and prevent data bloat. A smaller database helps your site run smoothly and makes your website backups smaller and faster to complete.
Step 7: Monitor Everything from the Automation Dashboard
If you’re managing multiple forms or scheduling regular exports, then having a clear overview of all your automated tasks is a game-changer.
The Automation Dashboard in WPForms makes this easy by showing all active tasks in one place.
I found this incredibly helpful when testing the feature because it gave me instant visibility into what was running, when, and whether everything was working as expected.
You can access it by going to the WPForms » Tools » Entry Automation page, where you’ll be able to:
View all forms with automation tasks configured.
Review task types, schedules, and current status.
Confirm whether export or delete tasks have run successfully.
It’s the simplest way to stay organized and ensure everything is running exactly as planned.
🔄 Bonus: Take Automation Even Further with Uncanny Automator
Automatically exporting data from your WordPress forms is just one way you can save time. I also recommend setting up more automated workflows with Uncanny Automator.
It is the best WordPress automation plugin and comes with built-in integration for WPForms, so you can trigger powerful workflows the moment someone submits a form.
While WPForms’ Entry Automation is perfect for managing the entries themselves (like exporting or deleting them), Uncanny Automator lets you use a form submission as a trigger to perform actions in other plugins or apps.
For example, you can automatically send a notification to Slack, create a new user account, enroll someone in a course, or even generate a WooCommerce coupon when someone fills out a form.
This can save you tons of time and streamline tasks that used to take hours. It’s a great way to level up your site’s automation without writing any code.
Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress Form Entries
Here are some questions that are frequently asked by our readers about auto exporting WordPress form entries:
What are the limitations of using email to auto export form data?
The main limitation is that the data isn’t stored in a central dashboard. Instead, it lives in your email inbox. That means you’ll need to manually sort, organize, or back up the data if you want to keep records long-term.
There’s also a higher risk of missing something important if your inbox gets cluttered.
In my experience, this setup works well for smaller sites or solo business owners who just want a quick way to check form entries without logging into WordPress.
But as your site grows, you might need something more scalable.
When that time comes, WPForms makes it easy to switch to cloud storage options like Dropbox or Google Drive, so your entries are always backed up and easy to manage.
Is there a way to stop form spam from being exported?
Yes. WPForms includes built-in spam protection tools like Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and its own smart honeypot feature that help block junk submissions before they ever reach your inbox.
On top of that, WPForms also has a form entry filter that ignores abandoned or partial form submissions. That means your exports only include complete and legitimate entries, which saves time and keeps your records clean.
Yes, this helps keep your database clean and optimized. When you export entries and then delete them from WordPress, you avoid unnecessary data buildup. This makes backups faster and your admin area more responsive.
Will auto-exporting form entries slow down my WordPress site?
No, auto-exporting form entries won’t affect your site’s speed if set up correctly.
The export process happens in the background, so visitors won’t notice any slowdown when submitting a form. Think of it like a scheduled task on your computer—it runs quietly at a set time without interrupting what you’re doing.
I didn’t experience any performance issues during testing, even on a site with multiple forms running.
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