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Mailjet Email Marketing
A marketing tool that might accidentally crash your entire website.
DecliningPoor rating
51/100
Recent updates frequently break sites and support often ignores critical technical issues.
Active installs
~18,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.2★
45 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-57%
Declining fast
171 → 73 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.14★
- MINORdownloads down 57% vs a year ago
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 · -57% in the last year
171/day a year ago→73/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMailjet Email Marketing plugin is functional for basic tasks but is plagued by serious stability, support, and usability issues, especially after recent updates.
What people like
- +Lightweight and easy to implement for basic needs
Common complaints
- −Missing "what's new" changelog for recent versions (since 6.1.7)×2
- −Critical error on activation causing site to crash (since 6.1)
- −Custom contact properties not recognized and support unresponsive
- −JavaScript inclusion breaks site layout
- −Configuration settings reset randomly
- −5-second latency on backend and frontend due to API calls on every page
- −Crash on plugin deactivation due to missing class
- −Initial screen blocks site and email service gets suspended after test emails
- −Relies on deprecated widgets; no shortcode or Gutenberg block provided×2
- −Poor support; users marked unsubscribed by default with no way to revert
- −Missing GDPR consent checkbox and limited styling options in Elementor widget
- −Becomes unusable when managing multiple lists or complex setups
- −Incorrect Italian translation for button label
- −Random disconnections from Mailjet leading to undelivered emails and potential order loss
- −Version 5.2.1 breaks the plugin, removing admin menu and making it inaccessible (since 5.2.1)×3
- −Potential security breach resulting in spam emails from the domain
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.14★Verified rating — drops from 3.20★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 18%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-04-152025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 45 total
Latest reviews · 45 analyzed
- 2026-02-26★★★★★bad practiceszetoun17
- 2024-09-11★★★★★v6.1 created critical error on my sitewpkiller
- 2024-06-18★★★★★custom contact properties are not recognized and support does not respond emailsvieraliv
- 2024-03-29★★★★★parfaitjfsimonnet1-shot
- 2023-03-18★★★★★Pretty good plugin. It's met all my needsomykhailenko
- 2023-01-27★★★★★A buggy and poorly designed pluginFa
- 2023-01-22★★★★★Buggy plugin, bad serviceShahar A
- 2021-10-28★★★★★Widgets do not exist anymore in WordPress!Doobeedoo
- 2021-08-03★★★★★Bug Mailjet Widgetaline1550
- 2021-04-30★★★★★Buggy and poor supportedoron
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Mailjet Email Marketing
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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.
54
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
81
Prior 7-day baseline
229
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,245
Mean release-day peak (30d)
224
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-33.3%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.40
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
49%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.24 → 3.14★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered