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For years, I’ve had issues with email forms on websites hosted at GoDaddy. Whether I was trying to get a contact form in WordPress to work, or simply forward emails within cPanel, the whole troubleshooting process was just a pain.

The GoDaddy email issue especially pops up when a client switches from GoDaddy email hosting to a 3rd party email host like Google, Zoho, NameCheap, etc.

And it turns out that it’s not just me. It’s a documented issue with everything from WooCommerce to other non-WordPress software.

But GoDaddy’s documentation is straight-up horrible and poking around StackOverflow / Googling developer forums gets old after a while. So here’s a short guide to GoDaddy form email problems that I wish I had several years ago.

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I recently had a reader question sent via email  –

Is there a way to try out WordPress for free before signing up to a hosting site? Maybe a ‘try before you buy’ arrangement, or something which you can download and try out on a laptop? Am just worried about signing up and then finding WordPress isn’t for me.

That is an excellent question. Unlike website builder services like Weebly, Wix or Squarespace or even eCommerce platforms like Shopify or Bigcommerce – there’s no real “free trial” option for self-hosted WordPress.

And no matter how many setup guides you read or tutorial videos you watch, there’s nothing quite like messing around with software to see if it “makes sense” to you.

There are 3 ways to try WordPress for free before you actually purchase hosting.

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Tired of your current hosting company and want to move?

A while back, I got really tired of GoDaddy hosting several of my small projects and decided to move many of my small websites over to HostGator*.

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