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Wooing eCommerce with WordPress

Brent Shepherd
November 16, 2013

Wooing eCommerce with WordPress

WordCamp Orlando presentation to introduce WooCommerce, both the plugin and the ecosystem.

Brent Shepherd

November 16, 2013
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  1. free (as in beer) WordPress shopping cart + open-source -

    free to do anything with it + community developed 190 contributors + backed by a respected company + support in every timezone + rapidly growing user base + hundreds of extensions
 ______________________ = DREAM COME TRUE What is WooCommerce?
  2. WooCommerce 1.0 0 downloads
 1 x free theme
 6 x

    official themes
 9 x official extensions Today A Brief History +1 month 27 Sept. 2011 310,000 downloads
 24 x official themes 
 145 x official extensions
 30+ third party themes
 50+ third party extensions
 $500,000+ of extension sales +1 year 27 Oct. 2011 14,000 downloads 10 x official themes 20 x official extensions Jan 2012 Sept. 2012 +4 months 1,800,000 downloads
 39 x official themes 
 200+ official extensions
 200+ third party themes
 400+ third party extensions WooCommerce 2.0 +2 years WooCommerce 1.4 45,000 downloads
 16 x official themes 
 52 x official extensions
  3. The best thing about WooCommerce 
 is not WooCommerce it’s

    the extensions ... and themes ... and support ... but mostly the extensions
  4. Stripe, Authorize.net, all the PayPals and 100 other payment gateways

    Payments Accounting Shipping Miscellaneous Subscriptions Xero, Quickbooks, Freshbooks, 
 and more USPS, FedEx, UPS, Australia Post, New Zealand Post, Canada Post & 20 more My personal fav - but I’m a little biased. Gravity Forms, Name your Price, Email marketing, SMS marketing, Pinterest, Pre-orders, Twitter Product Cards