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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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Ignite your crowd-funding efforts with WooThemes and IgnitionDeck
Crowd-funding has been a hot topic on the web over the past few months. In WordPress circles, this has been no different. Today, we’re proud to announce an exciting collaboration between two WordPress players, which we hope will help you all to create beautiful crowd-funding websites and to help the greater good. Our For The…
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WooThemes is WordPress 3.9 compatible
WooThemes products are compatible with WordPress 3.9. If you use the shortcode generator in the WooFramework, please upgrade to WooFramework 5.5.6. Last night (16th April 2014) WordPress 3.9 was released. Beginning the start of a slew of major releases for WordPress, version 3.9 includes an updated visual editor (TinyMCE 4.0), drag-and-drop-to-insert for images within entry…
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Fashionable Smartphone apps with WooCommerce + AppPresser
Today’s post comes from Scott Bollinger, co-founder of AppPresser. Scott has been working with mobile WordPress design and development for years. He recently had a chance to speak about AppPresser at MacWorld as part of the 6 About to Break challenge. Read more about their experience here. Wakami is a socially conscious lifestyle brand that designs…
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Inside our Brand
The current WooThemes.com design has been around for about 3 years now, which is a lifetime on the internet. The design still serves us well and we’ve made plenty of data-driven, growth hacking type improvements and experiments over the years – which has helped refine the design to be a very successful one for us.…
Why people love WooCommerce
Unlimited capability
WooCommerce developers can build 100% custom products as needed. The WooCommerce Marketplace also offers hundreds of extensions and themes that personalize and extend the capabilities of WooCommerce stores.
Woo customer support
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 customers own their site end to end, with a 100% open-source platform, unlimited hosting options, and total control over their shopping experience.
Brand and logo guidelines
For logos, typography, and guidance on tone, check out our brand guidelines.
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