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WooCommerce
Original author(s)Mike Jolley, James Koster
Developer(s)WooThemes[1]
Initial release2011 (2011)[2]
Stable release
v2.3.8 / 20 April 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-20)[3]
Repository
Written inPHP
Operating systemWordPress
Typee-commerce
LicenseGPL
Website[1]

WooCommerce is the most popular open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011,[4] the plugin quickly became famous for its simplicity to install and customisation and being free in nature.[5]

History

WooCommerce was developed by WooThemes who hired Mike Jolley and Jay Koster, developers at Jigowatt, to work on a fork of Jigoshop[6][7] that became WooCommerce.[8] In August 2014, 381,187 sites (or 17.77% of ecommerce sites online)[9] were powered by WooCommerce, placing WooCommerce as the most used e-commerce solution in the world with more than 4 million downloads.

Usage

WooCommerce has been adopted by over 380,000 online retailers.[10] It is used by a number of high-traffic websites, among them are Internet Systems Consortium and Small Press Expo.[11] For the 2nd week of March 2015, Trends indicated that WooCommerce ran on 24% of ecommerce sites online with total downloads reaching 6.7 million.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "WOOTHEMES". Trade Markia. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  2. ^ "WooCommerce Has Arrived". WooCommerce. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  3. ^ "WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce". WordPress. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  4. ^ Perez, Sarah (27 September 2011). "WooThemes Launches WooCommerce To Turn WordPress Sites Into Online Shops". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  5. ^ "What Ecommerce Platform is Best For Your Store?". Cody Bollerman. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  6. ^ Imel, Ryan (28 August 2011). "Jigoshop team and WordPress community members share thoughts on forking". WPCandy. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Our forking views". Jigoshop. 26 August 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  8. ^ Imel, Ryan (25 August 2011). "WooThemes forks Jigoshop into WooCommerce, launches WooLabs". WPCandy. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  9. ^ "WooCommerce Growth Revisited: Four Million and Counting". WooCommerce. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  10. ^ "4 Million Downloads". WooCommerce. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  11. ^ "WooCommerce E-Commerce Usage". WebTechster. Retrieved 2014-05-13.
  12. ^ "WooCommerce Statistics". Retrieved 2015-03-16.
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