Decorator – WooCommerce Email Customizer Plugin (User Guide)

This is a complete documentation of the Decorator – WooCommerce email customizer plugin which helps you customize WooCommerce order emails to fit your business requirements.

The plugin allows you to customize WooCommerce transactional emails in a number of different ways.

• Customize the email container/header/footer/content of the WooCommerce emails.
• Ability to edit email text/content.
• Customize all WooCommerce email types.
• Heading specific customizations.
• Option to add custom styles to emails using CSS.
• Real-time preview of changes.
• Provision to add images in the email.
• Link social media icons or title in the emails.
• Option to schedule changes to go live.
• Option to send test email to view changes.

You can install the plugin either from the WordPress plugin directory or as a zip downloaded from the WordPress.org website. You can learn more about the installation procedure by reading the article How to Install a Free Plugin from WordPress.

You can get to the plugin in any one of the following ways:

• Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Decorator from your WordPress dashboard.

Some other ways to get to the plugin are:

• From the plugin installer page, click on Customize email beneath the plugin name.

• From WooCommerce > Settings > Emails, towards the end of the page, you will see a button ‘Open Decorator’ under the subtitle ‘Decorator’. Click the button Open Decorator to open the customizer.

This plugin allows you to customize each element of your WooCommerce mail. You can customize the header, content, and footer sections of your emails as per your requirements.

The left side of the page contains each section of emails that you could customize. The right side of the window displays a live preview of the email template as you make changes on the left.

The plugins give provision to customise and edit all the default WooCommerce emails based on each order status. You can easily choose an email type and customise it on the go.

Email content such as subject, heading, subtitle, body text can be edited or modified to your preference. You can use sliders and color pickers for designing email background, container, header, footer, texts and everything. Also, add shortcodes/placeholders within the email templates to change the content and appearance. There are also options to add images (company logo), social media links and many more in the email templates.

You can control the following email elements:

• Subject text
• Heading text
• Subtitle text
• Body text
• Additional content
• Shortcodes

You can control the padding, container width, border-radius, shadow etc from this option.

• Background color – Here you can choose a background color for your outer email body.
• Padding – Set padding to display the email.
• Container width – Set width of the email container.
• Border radius – Fix border radius for the container.
• Shadow – Give a shadow effect to the email container.
• Border color: Choose a border color for the email container.
• Container border width: Adjust the width of the border.

The header section has been further divided into three sub-sections.

Header Style

• Background color – Select a background color.
• Text align – Choose the alignment (right, left, center, justify) for header text from the drop-down.
• Padding top/bottom – Adjust the top/bottom padding for header text.
• Padding left/right – Adjust the right/left padding for header text.

Header Image

Header image – Upload an image to be displayed on the header.

• Alignment: Position the image to left, right, center or justified.
• Max width: Adjust the width of the image.
• Background color: Set a clour for the image background.
• Padding top/bottom: Move the image padding to top and bottom.
• Add link to the website on header image: Redirect to your website on click

Heading and subtitle

You can customize the heading and subtitle of the header.

From this section, you can customize both the footer style and footer content for WooCommerce emails. Also, you can add social media links at the footer.

Footer style

• Padding – Adjust padding for footer text.
• Text align – Choose a suitable alignment for footer text from the given options.
• Font size – Select a suitable font size.
• Font family – Choose a font type of your choice.
• Font weight – Adjust the boldness of the footer text.
• Text color – Choose a suitable color for the footer text.

Footer content

Here you can add the desired footer content for WooCommerce emails.

Social media links

You can insert the social media links like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, Vimeo into your email templates by using icons, URLs, titles etc.

In this section, you get to customize the content container of the email body.

Content Container

• Background color – Select a background color for the email body.
• Padding – Adjust it’s padding.

Text Style

• Font size – Here you can adjust the font size for the email body content.
• Font family – Select a font type for the body text.
• Text color – Choose your preferred color for the text.
• Link color – Select a link color of your choice.

Order Items

This section allows you to customize the table for order items.

• Background – Here you can add a background color of your choice.
• Padding – Adjust padding for the order table.
• Border width – Adjust the border width for the table.
• Border color – Select a border color of your choice.
• Totals separator width – Adjust the width of the total separator line.
• Totals separator color – Select a specific color for the total separator line.

Order addresses

Adjust the appearance and style of the address detail in the email.

Button styles

Customize the appearance of buttons within the email body.

Note: You will have to turn the toggle on from the email text section to control the button styles.

In this section, you can individually customize heading 1 to 6 and also add custom styles using CSS.

Custom styles

You can add the CSS to the box for adding custom styling to email. To learn more about custom styling using CSS, refer to this article.

For example, to center align order table contents in the email using CSS, enter the following CSS in the Custom CSS field:  #body_content_inner table.td tbody tr td { text-align: center !important; } as shown below:

You can use this feature to see how the changes would look live on your website before publishing them. Plus you can share the preview with people who can’t access the customizer and get their feedback on it.

Note: Customization changes should be saved prior to sending the test email.

Click on the Publish button to reflect the changes made to your emails.

Other than publishing the changes right away, you have the option to either save them as a draft or schedule a date for the configured changes to go live on WooCommerce emails. You can also apply the changes to all email types by selecting the checkbox.

By clicking on the Schedule you will be able to schedule a date and time for the customizations to go live on your WooCommerce emails.

You can choose a date and time of your choice.