Email Template Designer – WP HTML Mail icon

Email Template Designer – WP HTML Mail

by Hannes Etzelstorfer

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81 Quality Score
Active Installs
19/30

With 20,000 active installs it sits in a comfortable mid-range niche, far from the millions of installs the top alternatives pull but well above a fringe tool.

Update Freshness
25/25

The plugin was updated in early March 2025 and tests against WordPress 6.7.5, though a PHP 7.2 minimum and the relatively low score suggest the codebase has not been aggressively modernized.

User Rating
14/15

A 96 out of 100 from 87 reviewers is an excellent user satisfaction signal and the single strongest factor pulling this plugin's overall score upward.

Support Health
8/15

Only 2 support threads with 1 resolved gives a tiny sample size that is hard to draw conclusions from, so confidence in the developer's responsiveness is limited.

WP Compatibility
15/15

Compatibility lands in the middle, covering the major WordPress, PHP, and integration versions needed, but with no evidence of broad recent testing across the full ecosystem.

Scores higher than 84% of indexed plugins

About

All in one email template designer for WooCommerce, Ninja Forms, Elementor Forms, Gravity Forms, CF7, Support Plus, EDD, ...

Active Installs 20k+
Rating ★★★★½ 4.8/5
Last Updated 2026-09-23 2:21pm GMT
Requires WordPress 5.4+
Tested Up To 7.1.2
Requires PHP 7.2+

Security History

4 known vulnerabilities, all patched
2 High 2 Medium

Most recent: August 11, 2023

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What It Does

Email Template Designer WP HTML Mail lets you visually style the transactional emails your WordPress site sends out, including WooCommerce order notifications, Contact Form 7 submissions, Gravity Forms entries, Elementor Forms responses, and Ninja Forms alerts. It works through a built-in template editor inside WordPress, so you do not need to write raw HTML for every change. The goal is to make order confirmations, receipts, and contact form notifications match your brand instead of looking like generic WordPress output.

Who It's For

This plugin fits small to mid-sized WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads store owners who care that transactional emails look branded and on-brand rather than plain. It also helps site owners running multiple form plugins (CF7, Gravity, Ninja, Elementor) who want one consistent design layer across all of them. Marketing-adjacent users who send manual or scheduled emails from WordPress will get the most visual mileage out of it.

Who Should Skip It

If your only email pain point is deliverability, you do not need this plugin at all, and would be better served by an SMTP plugin like WP Mail SMTP. Site owners running a single form plugin or a few simple transactional emails can likely handle their styling needs with a small amount of custom CSS.

The Bottom Line

Email Template Designer WP HTML Mail solves a real and common pain point: making WooCommerce and form notification emails match your brand without touching PHP or template files, and the 96 user rating suggests most buyers are happy. The overall quality score of 59.23 is dragged down by thin support data and a modest install base, so it is a strong but not standout choice. Use it if branded transactional emails are a real priority, and pair it with a proper SMTP plugin for deliverability.

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