Woo Newsroom

Are you a journalist, writer, or reporter looking to publish information about Woo? You’re in the right place! Welcome to the Woo Newsroom, or for you insiders, the WoosRoom.

What is Woo?

Woo is the company behind the leading open-source ecommerce platform, WooCommerce, powering 30% of the top million online stores.* Built on WordPress, WooCommerce empowers anyone, anywhere, to sell anything with truly unlimited extensibility, flexibility, and control over how they build and evolve their business.

Launched in 2011 and acquired by Automattic in 2015, Woo is a fully distributed company with employees based around the world.

† StoreLeads, StoreLeads.app, October 2024 ​​

WooCommerce in numbers

3.6M

live installations.†
 

StoreLeads (using Woo Cart/Checkout),
State of Ecommerce

35%

of all ecommerce is powered by WooCommerce.

StoreLeads, Growth of WooCommerce

995+

official WooCommerce Marketplace products,
and growing daily.
 

Woo Marketplace

80k+

developers, creatives, and builders
supporting WooCommerce merchants worldwide.

350+

core code contributors from
around the world.

407

Woo employees around the world.

†

Regarding third-party measurement: WordPress plugin rules don’t permit the automatic collection of stats and performance data (although some merchants do opt-in to share data). We use third-party measurement tools, including StoreLeads.app and W3Techs, to build an accurate estimate of WooCommerce installations, growth, and geographic distribution.

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Why people love WooCommerce

Unlimited capability

WooCommerce developers can build 100% custom products as needed. In the WooCommerce Marketplace, you’ll find hundreds of extensions and themes that personalize and extend the capabilities of WooCommerce stores.

A global, creative community

WooCommerce has a worldwide community of developers, builders, and creatives ready to help anyone build an online business that scales.

Open source roots

As a freely downloadable plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce has always been a part of the open-source community. Democratizing commerce is at our core.

Ownership over leasing

Woo users build and own their shop, end to end, with a 100% open-source platform, unlimited hosting options, and total control over their shopping experience.

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