Smackcoders – Email Template Builder for WooCommerce

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5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 5 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 12 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 20.

1. ★★★★★ Belal Ismail

   5.0y ago

   Don’t waste your time, the free version is useless

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2. ★★★★★ Haj

   6.0y ago

   Although looking good at first glance, this plugin feels faulty anywhere I touch.

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3. ★★★★★ jcax2

   6.0y ago

   La versión gratis de este plugin no te deja hacer funciones útiles con los correos que ve el cliente, solo los del admin. No pierdas el tiempo instalándolo.

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4. ★★★★★ bakkerr

   8.3y ago

   Unless you want to be used as a BETA tester, do not buy this plugin. We found multiple bugs in this plugin. Ranging from “features not working” to “messing up existing mail templates”. Our first run in with Support for this plugin was because, it couldn’t find any product from our page. They requested access to our site, so i gave them access to the site. It wasn’t enough, they wanted Database access AND FTP access. As a tech, i can understand. They fixed this bug. so ok, but then I noticed our site was renamed to “Up and Running”. So I changed it back thinking it was a one time thing, and the guys wanted to check if it was online or something. New problem arrised; Templates couldn’t be saved. Contacted support again they fixed it. AGAIN our site name was changed to Up and Running. And i discovered that when you activate this plugin, but have no admin-emails setup in it, it will send admin-emails with a blank-body. They fixed the template save thing. But still it was messing with the default admin mails. I thought i’ll have a look myself. and found a piece of code that would change $BLOGNAME to “Up and Running” every PAGE-VIEW! so our customers were getting emails from “Up and Running”. Thanks for that BTW! After that i decided that i lost my trust in their expertise and removed all access. I told them they would be able to access the site under my supervision with teamviewer or such, but no longer through FTP, no account, no DB password. The plug-in itself WHEN it works, is buggy and not ready for production: – It’s “drag and drop” function doesn’t work properly – It will always add objects at the top, and then you can (hopefully) get it to shift – If you use multiple same object-types, and try to edit them, it will always edit the top item, even if you click the edit-icon on the other object. – If you use multiple same object-types, it will copy the last one, instead of a new one. These AND the bugs we encountered AND the lack of professionalism in their support, caused us to ask for a refund. But they say they can’t do a refund. Their refund policy says it’s because their plugin doesn’t have a license activation, so we would be able to happily (cough) use this plugin without paying for it. We have multiple paid plugins that we’re happy to pay for. But this thing is not worth it. Oh and… If they fix your bugs, they fix it FOR YOUR SITE ONLY. So aparently there’s no update for the repository it’s all custom made. I think that’s bad coding. Let this be a warning. Do NOT pay 99$ for this plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ sd360

   8.5y ago

   Had a slight issue with email subject line not displaying in v1.4 but they fixed it in v1.5 and now it works like a treat!

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6. ★★★★★ Lars Kristian

   8.6y ago

   When sending emails you get an “Your logo here” in pink. Can’t seem to remove it and it does not show in the preview. Han to remove the plugin Can’t reccomend this to anyone I’m afraid. This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Lars Kristian.

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7. ★★★★★ Doug M

   8.9y ago

   Unless you update to pro…you can only edit 1 of the templates for Woocommerce. What a waste of time.

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8. ★★★★★ grafikstudio

   10.0y ago

   Ein sehr schönes Plugin. Ursprünglich wollte ich nur das Design der Woocommerce-Mails überarbeiten, dann stellte sich aber noch ein weiteres Feature heraus: man kann auch zu einigen Teilen die Email-Texte damit customizen. Ich bin echt schwer begeistert. Der Support reagiert fix und hilfreich. Weiter so!

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The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (2.0.1). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched High · 8.8 Visual Email Designer for WooCommerce <= 1.7.1 - Authenticated (Author+) SQL Injection ↗
   2022-12-09 CVE-2022-3860 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects <= 1.7.1 Patched in 1.7.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-10-20 20+ → 10+ down after 50 days in tier
2. 2026-08-31 30+ → 20+ down after 19 days in tier
3. 2026-08-12 20+ → 30+ up after 4 days in tier
4. 2026-08-08 30+ → 20+ down after 116 days in tier
5. 2026-04-14 20+ → 30+ up after 52 days in tier
6. 2026-02-21 30+ → 20+ down after 66 days in tier
7. 2025-12-17 20+ → 30+ up after 13 days in tier
8. 2025-12-04 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in tier

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Smackcoders – Email Template Builder for WooCommerce: 10+ active installs, 2.3★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/email-customizer-woocommerce