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What is Woo?

Woo is the company behind the leading open-source ecommerce platform, WooCommerce, powering 4M+ 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 worldwide.

† StoreLeads, November 2025

WooCommerce in numbers

4M+

live installations.†
 

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

33%

of all ecommerce is powered by WooCommerce.

StoreLeads, Growth of WooCommerce

1,315+

official WooCommerce Marketplace products, and growing daily.
 

Woo Marketplace

90k+

developers, creatives, and builders
supporting WooCommerce merchants worldwide.

350+

core code contributors from
around the world.

43.2%

of the web is built on WordPress.

W3Techs, Usage statistics and market share of WordPress

†

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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    You might be forgiven for thinking that the delicious aromas arising from the WooLabs this week were due to the frantic cooking & tossing of Pancakes – but you’d be wrong! We’ve been cooking up tasty treats of a different sort which we’re happy to report are now ready for consumption. This week we have…

  • Helping you perceive the abilities of WooCommerce

    WooCommerce continues to grow from strength to strength with it now averaging over 1,000 downloads a day and reaching the top spot for the search term “ecommerce” on the WordPress plugin repository. Designed in-house by Jay Koster, “Sentient” is our latest WooCommerce powered shopfront theme for serious online sellers. It’s unique selling point is it’s jQuery Masonry plugin…

  • More power to the people

    It’s been only 2 weeks since the release of WooCommerce 1.4 and our download stats have clocked over 65,000. We are all for keeping this momentum powering WooCommerce forward and that is why we are releasing another pile of powerful extensions today. What is important to note is that these aren’t payment gateway extensions either,…

  • Get To Know Mike Krapf

    We’re continuing on in our series called “Getting To Know Woo” today. Our next brave ninja up is Mike. Mike is a fellow stateside member of the WooTeam. We’re actually not to far from each other, that is compared to the rest of the WooTeam. He’s living about two hours East from me in Ohio.…

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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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