WP Email Template

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Joseph D'Souza

   5.8y ago

   I’m not sure why this plugin is in our system as it doesn’t seem to do anything useful, but what’s worse is there seems to be a recent code refactor that has changed namespaces and class names causing code errors where custom code has referenced this plugin. It’s quite useful to offer a depreciation notice or fallback when plugin changes like this go through, but in this case I assume the plugin developer only really cares about selling licences rather than maintaining a well supported plugin. Rather spoon my eyes out than see this plugin in any of my future systems. This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Joseph D'Souza.

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2. ★★★★★ Darryl Erentzen

   6.2y ago

   I’m attempting to use this plugin, but the HTML emails show up in google with a super-wide format and broken tags. Thinking that maybe the pro version’s “Premium Styles” functionality would solve this issue, I foolishly bought a 5-site license. In order to finish the upgrade, you’re required to install “a3 Dashboard” and link it to your account on the a3 website. Unfortunately, linking doesn’t work – their dashboard won’t recognize my account – so I’m stuck with a non-functional plugin, and an upgrade I’ve paid for but can’t use. I put a ticket into their support system 4 days ago and have yet to hear back from them. Garbage plugin. Use something else. I wish I could go lower than 1 star.

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3. ★★★★★ akigleo

   8.6y ago

   Lite version is not OK for using. This is like demo.

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4. ★★★★★ Husain Ahmed

   9.6y ago

   There are no any free functionality are available here. if you want to use free version of this plugin please don’t west your time. This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by Husain Ahmed.

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5. ★★★★★ pcoitinho

   9.8y ago

   Seems to work fine, but the interface makes it unusable.

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6. ★★★★★ James Doglasse

   10.0y ago

   All I was after, was a plugin that allowed me to set a global width, and footer. Sure.. this plugin does this.. but it then ADDS shit to your emails you cant remove… unless you buy the free version. Like email title is suddenly plonked into the body of your email, ruining it. There is NEVER a need for this, its only done so you are forced to buy the paid version. Something, I would never do, since its been done so damn dishonestly. Avoid.

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7. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   10.0y ago

   This is a great plugin – for matching emails that I send out to match the header and colors of my website. In the free version they allow you to upload the header and customize a few colors – I am seriously considering going Pro Kudos to the developer(s)

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8. ★★★★★ Anders Carlén

   10.0y ago

   Throws an error saying that the ports are blocked when in fact they are not. I switched to WP-MAIL-SMTP and then it worked just fine with identical settings.

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3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 WP Email Template <= 2.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-09-05 CVE-2025-58800 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.8.6 Patched in 2.8.7
2. High · 8.8 a3 Lazy Load <= 2.6.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Reset ↗
   2022-11-02 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.6.2 Patched in 2.6.3
3. Medium · 5.4 WP HTML Mail < 2.2.11 - HTML injection ↗
   2019-10-25 CVE-2019-25144 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 2.2.11 Patched in 2.2.11

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-02-18 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-02-17 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-02-15 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-02-14 2K+ → 3K+ up after 5 days in tier
5. 2026-02-09 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in tier
6. 2026-02-07 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2026-02-05 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer 90K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Email Template Designer – WP HTML Mail 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags C
• Mailonix – Email Template Customizer for WooCommerce 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Contact Form Email 8K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• VS Contact Form 7K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Elemailer Lite – Elementor email template & campaign builder 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B

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WP Email Template: 2K+ active installs, 3.1★ (35 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-email-template