Today, Monday, September 27, is a very special day for us on WooCommerce Because
We are celebrating our 10th birthday!
Wow! A lot of things have happened in the past 10 years, and we have taken the long way from humble. When we recall and explore the exciting journey of Woocommerce, join our memory journey.
WOOTHEMES e -commerce
In 2010, Woothemes began to study the idea of \u200b\u200bintroducing e -commerce functions into its popular theme collection.
After exploring many different methods (including an idea, using the e -commerce function
as part of each theme
), announced that woothemes will hire hires Two developers behind Jigoshop to create a special e -commerce plug -in Woocommerce named special e -commerce plugin.
to say hello The internal team of the famous developer launched the first iteration of the Woocommerce plugin. This highly anticipated version is well received inside and outside the WordPress community, and major publications such as TechCrunch also reported the news.
WooCommerce 1.0 launched nine expansion and six themes available, including \”WOOTIQUE\” -The free products developed for WooCommerce.
This is the appearance of the first WOOCOMMERCE product dashboard:
Picture source:
TechCrunch
This That’s what the sales report is:
Picture source:
TechCRUNCH
Incidents have progressed very quickly. In 2012, we provided support for WOOTHEMES.com by using woocommerce, invested funds to our mouths, showing how much it became in such a short period of time. Scalable.
\”Ten years?! We have fun! It is surreal to seeing our products really change our lives;
The ecosystem around the Woocommerce enables hundreds of thousands of companies with millions of satisfaction customers to be satisfied with Starting and development.
The development of our team is also amazing; Seeing people not only grow in their careers, but also grow in their families. This is an honor. \”[123 123 ] – Wallen Homs, chief operating officer Five million journey Published only 16 A month later, the team celebrated the volume reached 500,000 times. Just 137 days later, when we reached 1 million milestones, colorful paper crumbs appeared again -this shows the huge demand for e -commerce in the WordPress field and proves the quality of the plug -in.
In 2014, we launched the first Woocommerce event -WOOCONF. It was held in San Francisco, and more than 300 people attended a two -day meeting. The meeting celebrated and educated everything about Woocommerce and e -commerce.
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If your first meeting is not exciting enough, the night before the big day, the of Woocommerce has exceeded 5 million times.
At that time, the team did not know that the co -founder of Woothemes began to discuss the potential acquisition of Automattic with Matt Mullenweg on Wooconf in 2014, but he will discuss it in detail later. Intersection Later that time, the storefront -WOOCOMmerce has the first official theme of e -commerce in history -launched in the WordPress theme directory.
The new era of Automattic Four years after launching WoOOCOMMERCE, WOOTHEMES was acquired by Automattic in 2015. In the video announced the acquisition, Matt Mullenweg learned from the decision in depth:
\”On WordCamp a few years ago, someone stood up and asked me when we could make the creation online store like creating a blog like a blog Easy. Everyone applauds; for a long time, people have always needed better e -commerce functions, but this is beyond the range that Automattic can do well. \”
In addition, the WOOTHEMES team has many similarities with Automattic -fully distributed, full of enthusiasm for open source technology, and strong links with the existing WordPress community, etc. -This is this is this is this is that this is this is this is this is this is that this is this is this is this is this is that this is this is the A perfect match.
At that time, the 55th team was the largest acquisition of Automattic’s history, which indicates that the future of e -commerce and WordPress is worthy of serious treatment.
The team’s first Automattic Grand Meetup
After adding Automattic for one year, the WOOTHEMES brand retired and replaced by it. Focusing on Woocommerce brand. Woothemes.com is now redirected to WooCommerce.com, and theme development continues to become part of the business -but under the Woocommerce brand.
In the same year, the second Wooconf event was held in Austin, Texas, attracting the world from the world Participants from various places.
The team continues to grow, we can start developing our own product kits to further support our merchants. Some noticeable mention is WooCommerce subscriptions, WooCommerce Shipping, and the recent WooCommerce Payments. In addition, in early 2019, we launched mobile applications for iOS and Android, allowing our users to manage their business anytime, anywhere.
Fast advance to this day; due to our talents, major partners and contributor communities, WooCommerce has reached an incredible milestone of more than 150 million .
Our Marketplace now has more than 730 official extensions and themes, the team has more than 300 people, and WooCommerce is also translated into 66 different language environments. A quarter of the stores are supported by Woocommerce, including Chaka Khan, Aeropress, and New Zealand’s full black official stores.
woocommerce 10 years
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You , we do not, we do not, we are not Will succeed. In this special day, we are very grateful to everyone who participated in this journey -our merchants, developers, expert institutions, partners and communities.
This is what happened in the next 10 years and later -we have an exciting future in front of us.
We have ambitious plans and regard this incredible first ten years as a long and successful future. We are committed to selling anything for anyone to sell anywhere in any place with really infinite scalability, flexibility, and control of how they build and develop business.
It will become better in the next 10 years, and we are looking for ambitious people to join our entire business field. It is a particularly exciting moment to engage in business work -the industry is experiencing the growth of astronomical figures and developing every day.
If you are interested in Wooocommerce career, then now The best time to grow up with us and shape the future of business .
After exploring many different methods (including an idea, using the e -commerce function 
This That’s what the sales report is:
Incidents have progressed very quickly. In 2012, we provided support for WOOTHEMES.com by using woocommerce, invested funds to our mouths, showing how much it became in such a short period of time. Scalable.
At that time, the 55th team was the largest acquisition of Automattic’s history, which indicates that the future of e -commerce and WordPress is worthy of serious treatment. 
, we do not, we do not, we are not Will succeed. In this special day, we are very grateful to everyone who participated in this journey -our merchants, developers, expert institutions, partners and communities. 