{"id":14516,"date":"2016-04-06T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=14516"},"modified":"2024-06-06T08:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:58:55","slug":"wooconf-2016-state-woo-matt-mullenweg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wooconf-2016-state-woo-matt-mullenweg\/","title":{"rendered":"WooConf 2016: State Of The Woo With Matt Mullenweg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WooConf 2016 kicked off today with Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s first-ever <em>State Of The Woo<\/em>&nbsp;address. The WordPress founder and CEO of Automattic (which acquired WooCommerce maker WooThemes last year) had a few things to say about what&#8217;s going on with WooCommerce and how it has&nbsp;changed since its beginnings. Find out about WooCommerce&#8217;s journey with&nbsp;some of the stats listed below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beautiful notes by the hand of Jess Boctor, on State of the Woo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WooConf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WooConf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MdE3wl9s1i\">pic.twitter.com\/MdE3wl9s1i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WooCommerce Conf. (@WooConf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WooConf\/status\/717778327948431360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>ECOMMERCE TODAY<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 190 million people buying products&nbsp;online<\/li>\n<li>28 percent of businesses are online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This means that&nbsp;62 percent of business aren\u2019t selling anything online yet.&nbsp;&#8220;There is so much out there left to do,&#8221; said Mullenweg in regards to helping more small business go from in-store retail to ecommerce.<\/p>\n<h3>The HISTORY OF WOOCOMMERCE<\/h3>\n<p>Today more than 37 percent of all ecommerce sites use WooCommerce, however it hasn&#8217;t always been that way. Here&#8217;s a timeline presented by Mullenweg of how WooCommerce has changed over the years.<\/p>\n<h4>September 2011<\/h4>\n<p>WooCommerce 1.0 was founded nearly five years ago. That year the initial platform had zero downloads, one free theme, six official themes, and nine official extensions.<\/p>\n<h4>September 2012<\/h4>\n<p>In 2012 WooCommerce grew to 310,000 downloads, 24 official themes, 145 official extensions, 30-plus third-party themes, and 30-plus third-party extensions.<\/p>\n<h4>November 2013<\/h4>\n<p>WooCommerce 2.0 experienced 2&nbsp;million&nbsp;downloads and 250-plus extensions in 2013. The employee count at this time was at 36 people.<\/p>\n<h4>November 2014<\/h4>\n<p>In 2014 WooCommerce 2.2 received 5 million downloads, had 350-plus extensions, and 380,000 site installations.&nbsp;The first ever WooConf was also held this year.<\/p>\n<h4>WooCommerce Today<\/h4>\n<p>WooCommerce 2.5 was launched this year under Automattic\u2019s new leadership, with&nbsp;improvements in&nbsp;refunds, UX, REST API, and speed.&nbsp;The latest edition has received 13.8 million downloads, one million plus site installations, and 400-plus extensions. The Woo Team has grown to&nbsp;76 people across 18 countries. There are also&nbsp;433 contributors and an even larger developer community of more than 100,000.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14536\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf.jpg\" alt=\"WooConf\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-216x144.jpg 216w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-851x567.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With origins in South Africa, the WooCommerce Woo Team has expanded worldwide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other highlights and accomplishments WooCommerce has seen to this date include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WooCommerce is currently translated in&nbsp;26 languages at 100 percent<\/li>\n<li>There are 39 WooCommerce Meetups around the world, including&nbsp;40 groups with 5,270 members<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woothemes.com\/wooexperts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WooExperts<\/a> was lauched&#8211;38 people joined the program and 22 of them are currently in attendance at&nbsp;WooConf 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Future of WooCommerce<\/h3>\n<p>Here are some tidbits about what&#8217;s in store next for WooCommerce&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WooCommerce 2.6 is slated for release this May<\/li>\n<li>Storefront 2.0 will be included in the release and contain a&nbsp;better, more modern layout with 100 percent responsiveness<\/li>\n<li>Plans to change how people do business in booking, memberships, subscriptions, and so on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14538\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14538 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2.jpg\" alt=\"WooConf-2\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2-216x144.jpg 216w, https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WooConf-2-851x567.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WooCommerce aspires to change how ecommerce stores do business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mullenweg concluded his speech, saying&nbsp;his team is looking quite a bit at the biggest stumbling blocks people have with WooCommerce, hoping to improve the overall interaction between WordPress, WooCommerce, and hosting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned for more WooConf 2016 coverage!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WooConf 2016 kicked off today with Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s first-ever State Of The Woo&nbsp;address. 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