WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It's designed for small to large online merchants using WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular because of its simplicity to install and customize and free basic products.
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Histori
WooCommerce was first developed by WordPress theme developer WooThemes, which employs Mike Jolley and James Koster, a developer in Jigowatt, to work on the Jigoshop fork that became WooCommerce. In August 2014, WooCommerce empowers 381,187 sites (or 17.77% of e-commerce online sites).
In November 2014, WooConf first, a conference focused on eCommerce using WooCommerce was held in San Francisco, California. It attracted 300 participants.
In May 2015, WooThemes and WooCommerce were acquired by Automattic, the operator of WordPress.com and a major contributor to WordPress software.
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Usage
WooCommerce is used by a number of high traffic websites such as the Small Press Expo. For the 3rd week of September 2015, Trends shows that WooCommerce runs on 30% of e-commerce sites and millions of active installs.
Extensions
WooCommerce has attracted significant popularity due to its basic products, in addition to many extensions and plugins, free and open source. In addition, there are thousands of paid add-ons for a fixed price. Many Premium Themes now offer capabilities with Woocommerce as well as plugins that create compatible theme frameworks.
Leading WooCommerce extensions include:
- WooCommerce Bookings: Which allows users to sell time blocks as appointments.
- WooCommerce membership: which allows users to restrict access to certain parts of their WordPress website, and sell access to parts of this website.
Partner Program WooExpert
Instead of the WooCommerce certification program uses an official partnership program. WooCommerce recommends users to use this WooExpert for their WooCommerce project. Suppliers may apply to become partners and thus will undergo a multi-stage application process that includes skills evaluation and interviews. Throughout the process WooCommerce aims to assess familiarity with WooCommerce core and extensions. The partnership program has Gold, Silver or Bronze levels until the end of 2017, when it switches to a flat and verified "WooExpert" system.
See also
- Shopping cart software comparison
- List of online payment service providers
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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