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Woo is the company behind WooCommerce, the ecommerce platform that powers 4M+ stores.* Built on WordPress, WooCommerce empowers anyone to sell anything, with unlimited 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 worldwide.
*StoreLeads, January 2026
WooCommerce in numbers
developers, creatives, and builders
supporting WooCommerce merchants worldwide
core code contributors from
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.
Latest Woo news
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Bookings 1.14.0 – REST API Edition
Today we’re excited to announce that WooCommerce Bookings 1.14.0 has been released! Release Highlights Bookings 1.14.0 is our second minor release for WooCommerce Bookings in 2019 and our focus for this release was primarily focused on behind the scenes infrastructure improvements to ensure we provide more stability and a faster cadence as we begin to…
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WooCommerce Admin: A New Central Dashboard for WooCommerce
Our team is proud to announce a new dashboard for WooCommerce from which store owners can manage and monitor all key reporting metrics. WooCommerce Admin is ready for the world so everyone can start benefiting from new reports, while we continue to build features. This is similar to WooCommerce Product Blocks, which started as a…
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Performance Improvements in WooCommerce 3.6 to Speed Up Stores
Alongside the new product blocks available in WooCommerce 3.6, we made a series of performance improvements in the front and back end to speed up performance. Read on to see how these changes will improve both the management and shopping experience on WooCommerce stores.
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Integrate Content and Commerce with WooCommerce Product Blocks
Combining content and commerce has long been a benefit of using WooCommerce and WordPress. In WooCommerce 3.6, we are taking this a step further by introducing eight new product blocks that allow insertion of products on any post or page in the store. What this means is store owners are no longer restricted to only…
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