61
Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer
Beautiful emails that might break during your next update.
Declining
61/100
The visual editor is helpful but compatibility issues and translation gaps cause frustration.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.5★
142 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-39%
Declining fast
383 → 232 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 39% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 7 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -39% in the last year
383/day a year ago→232/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayKadence WooCommerce Email Designer is a well-liked free plugin for customizing WooCommerce transactional emails that earns praise for its ease of use and feature set, but is held back by compatibility breakages, multilingual limitations, and a pattern of infrequent updates.
What people like
- +Easy to use interface for redesigning WooCommerce emails via the WordPress Customizer×6
- +Useful feature set including live preview, send test email, import/export, custom CSS, and HPOS support×2
- +Responsive/mobile-friendly email templates available
- +Responsive and helpful support team×3
- +Reliable long-term for users on standard WooCommerce setups×2
Common complaints
- −Stopped working after a recent WordPress or Elementor update, breaking access to the Customizer and reverting emails to default WooCommerce templates×2
- −Preview does not match actual sent emails — customizations such as header styling and background colors are not applied in real emails
- −Does not work with WPML or multilingual setups; only outputs default English text regardless of language settings
- −Not compatible with custom order status plugins or non-default WooCommerce email types; only recognizes default WooCommerce emails
- −jQuery error in the editor (Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined) reported in the preview environment
- −Images included in emails fail to display
- −Incompatible with Oxygen Builder and caused server overload; uninstalling did not restore original WooCommerce templates, requiring a full backup restore
- −Infrequent updates raise concerns about ongoing maintenance×2
- −Occasional conflicts with other plugins×2
- −Translation/localization (e.g. Brazilian Portuguese) completed by community but not yet applied to the plugin
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.42★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 142 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-12-22★★★★★Was great, not working nowmask666
- 2025-06-29★★★★★Worked great until it didn'tdealerpix
- 2025-05-18★★★★★Preview doesn't reflect resultfruitbat
- 2024-09-12★★★★★simples e resolve, sem complicaçãodaudtivan
- 2024-07-05★★★★★Full useless just very basic default woo mailsmalaga16
- 2024-03-26★★★★★Great plugin for re-designing the awful default emailsjsem1101
- 2024-01-02★★★★★Great plugin with great supportadcapaust
- 2023-11-30★★★★★works only for englishadpassion
- 2023-11-24★★★★★Very good and feature rich email customizerjuregolob
- 2023-08-11★★★★★The best to change WooCommerce transactional emailsbasbuis
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
219
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
188
Prior 7-day baseline
156
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
230
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+16.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.73
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.32 → 4.42★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered