Today is the one year mark of Woo being acquired and us joining Automattic! It has been a great ride so far and time has flown fast, so we must be having fun.
Our team is meeting up in Berlin in July for the final WooTrip to celebrate and get some valuable facetime.
Cheers to the future!
Internet Retailer Conference Exhibition or IRCE is the biggest eCommerce conference in the world. We attended in 2014 for the first time.
The booth this year looks a bit more pro!
Well done KLM for highlighting Norway as a surf destination. Insanely good footage!
Loved this TEDx Talk by Norwegian comedian Harald Eia on why socialist Scandinavia is a breeding ground for rich people.
Had a good time at WordCamp Norway listening to talks about WordPress being used for sites like Miljøpartiet De Grønne, Fnugg.no and United Influencers.
Talking to agencies like Dekode, Maksimer and Making Waves, it is good to hear WordPress gaining momentum in Norway and making a shift against proprietary CMS’s like Episerver for the enterprise clients.
We use BuiltWith to measure WooCommerce growth and compare to our competition. They just updated their entire database which includes 332 million domains, and WooCommerce just passed a million websites (up from 900k). The new number is 1,111,882 sites running WooCommerce which is close to WordPress.org usage stats of 1+ million sites with the plugin installed.
This is pretty amazing for an eCommerce platform which is just over 4 years old, but shows the powers of open source and WordPress.
I told the WooThemes story at Internetdagarna in Stockholm.
Our @mjepson telling the Woo story at #ind15 in Stockholm #wordpress #wpdagen RT from @bloggcoach 🙂 pic.twitter.com/ErAvFOUY4J
— WooCommerce (@WooCommerce) November 23, 2015
#WordPress powers 25% of the Internet. #WPbiz #WPdagen #woothemes pic.twitter.com/hbGOmj0Pbr
— Johan Bergqvist (@JohanBergqvist) November 23, 2015
Magnus Jepson, @mjepson, från @WooThemes på #wpdagen #wpmeansbizness #ind15 pic.twitter.com/kZb9cqsRWF
— Therese Davidsson P (@tdavidsson) November 23, 2015
Looks like Drupal is upping their marketing budget #ind15 pic.twitter.com/muijtJmaOp via @marcybarcy
— Magnus Jepson (@mjepson) November 23, 2015
Preparing slides for the @woothemes story at Internetdagarna conference in Stockholm tomorrow #IND15 pic.twitter.com/8DM5pKICe9
— Magnus Jepson (@mjepson) November 22, 2015
This isn’t my office today, but one of my team members. We’ve got a pretty cool page at Automattic which showcases our office space for the day. Check it out!
Our distributed team at Automattic hail from nearly every continent and 36 countries around the world.
When we launched WooCommerce back in 2011, WordPress only powered 13,1% of all websites online, but it has almost doubled that since then, and now powers a whopping 25% of all sites on the Internet.
I think open source generally grows stronger and more secure the more popular it is and more people it has working on it. We all benefit from a common platform we can build on and then differentiate on top of it, instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again for no good reason.
You can read more on Matt’s blog.
Back in 2012 we had a talented designer do some posters for WooThemes dubbed WooVille, and this is one of my favorites. I’m in the process of getting our WooVille comic series printed as posters for my home office. Sitting at 25 people, we managed to double in size over the next three years before we were acquired by Automattic.
