Business of WordPress
Keep track of the latest Business activities in the WordPress economy. Be it recent WordPress acquisitions, flow of investments, keeping things fresh with branding efforts, product revenue figures, partnerships, surveys, and whitepapers in the WordPress ecosystem. Affiliate Disclosure in the footer. Submit Info for listing here
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| 21 Apr 2025 | WordPress Professionals Survey 2025 - Kyle Van Deusen over at The Admin Bar published results of the 4th annual 2025 WordPress Professionals Survey, in which 1,233 WordPress professionals participated. Over 42% generated less than $50,000 in revenue in 2024. For 38% of folks, the average website price was between $2,500 and $4,999. Bricks, Elementor, and Divi were the top three builder choices. Over 57.3% are embracing the use of AI in their agencies. On the bright side, 46.5% are cautiously optimistic about the future of the WordPress project. | Ecosystem |
| 15 Apr 2025 | aThemes Acquired - Syed Balkhi’s Awesome Motive group has acquired aThemes, which feature popular themes like Syndey and Botiga. It also has an actively developed Merchant plugin for WooCommerce store users. | Acquisitions |
| 17 Apr 2025 | Burst Statistics Acquisition - The new parent brand TeamUpdraft has acquired Burst Statistics, an analytics plugin for WordPress users. Nothing changes for existing Burst Statistics users and they will receive new features in the future. | Acquisitions |
| 13 Mar 2025 | New Parent Branding - TeamUpdraft is the new parent brand for popular WordPress products like UpdraftPlus, WP-Optimize, and All-In-One Security. Also, UpdraftPlus, WP-Optimize, and AIOS have moved to the new teamupdraft .com domain. | Branding |
| 24 Apr 2025 | LMS Plugin Acquisition - Ionut Neagu shared (Links X) about the Themeisle team acquiring the Masteriyo LMS WordPress plugin. “The original crew stays on; we add fuel. Shared values turned a complex co-ownership deal into a quick handshake”. | Acquisitions |
| 01 May 2025 | Strong GoDaddy Q1 - 2025 has started well for GoDaddy with Q1 reporting the total revenue of $1.2 billion, up 8% on a year-over-year basis. Also, expanded the reach of the GoDaddy Airo platform and launched the GoDaddy Agency partner program. | Revenue |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Hosting.com Rebrand - After operating for 24 years as ‘A2 Hosting’, it has been rebranded to ‘Hosting .com’ – new name, branding, and vision. In 2019, A2 Hosting was bought by the World Host Group (WHG), and they owned the Hosting .com domain name – which is an impressive + expensive domain – what say? (Links X). | Branding |
| 12 May 2025 | Create Members Rebranding - Wpbens has rebranded the Create Members plugin to the MemberHub plugin, “to ensure a more recognizable and consistent identity across all touchpoints, as the new name better represents the features and direction of the plugin”. | Branding |
| 15 May 2025 | The State of SEO 2025 - Glen Allsopp has shared 34 insights on the findings of The State of SEO in 2025 report. Goliath brands still dominate most industries and site types. A website like Wikipedia has seen stable traffic over the past ten years. AI has impacted every industry, including search. Also, the observation was that AI provided better and more specific answers than Google search. | Ecosystem |
| 13 May 2025 | New Fueled Branding - In 2023, Fueled and 10up joined hands, and now a fresh branding has been unveiled. Moving forward, Fueled will be the main brand, and 10up brand will be Fueled’s expert WordPress practice. | Branding |
| 13 May 2025 | Foundation + Newspack - Foundation, a CMS provider of publications for nearly 30 years, is joining Newspack, an Automattic product, and will migrate Foundation customers for free, and they can join Newspack at no additional cost. | Partnerships |
| 14 May 2025 | WP Startup €615K Funding - Modular DS, a Spanish startup that provides a platform for managing WordPress websites, has raised €615,000 in seed funding to expand its presence in international markets and for product development. | Investments |
| 15 May 2025 | WP Speakers Acquired - Post Status has acquired WP Speakers project from Michelle Frechette, moving the individual ownership to the Post Status non-profit. WP Speakers features a free database of speakers available for WordPress meetups, WordCamps, podcasts, blogging, and other events. | Acquisitions |
| 13 May 2025 | WooCommerce + Square - WooCommerce has announced Square as its preferred point-of-sale solution for in-person payments, handling online-to-offline commerce for over 4 million online stores globally. This partnership would enable seamless inventory, order, and customer data sync across digital and physical retail environments. | Partnerships |
| 19 May 2025 | MiniCRM - Group .one with popular WordPress brands like RankMath and WP Rocket, has acquired MiniCRM, which is a leading provider of CRM solutions for businesses in Europe. | Acquisitions |
| 26 May 2025 | Patchstack Surpasses Microsoft - According to the latest data for CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), Patchstack (10920) has surpassed Microsoft (10783), followed by Red Hat and Oracle. | Ecosystem |
| 26 May 2025 | Elementor Market Share - In the CMS space, Elementor market share is 12.4% (WordPress at 43.5%). Nat Miletic pointed out (Links X), “It’s mind-blowing to me that Elementor has a bigger market share than Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, and Shopify combined”. | Ecosystem |
| 27 May 2025 | WP Rocket + Hosting .com - WP Rocket, a caching and performance WordPress plugin, has announced a partnership with Hosting .com – enabling Hosting .com customers to leverage WP Rocket for better website performance. | Partnerships |
| 27 Jun 2025 | SHe Plugin - The team at POSIMYTH Innovations has acquired Sticky Header Effects (SHe) for Elementor plugin, which enables smooth, scroll-friendly headers with effects like the shrink header effect, transparent header, background transitions, and logo color change. | Acquisitions |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Melograno Branding - TMS Products, a brand behind popular WordPress products like WP Amelia and wpDataTables, has decided to rebrand into ‘Melograno Venture Studio’. The founder, Alexander Gilmanov, shared why (LinkedIn) this rebranding and what does ‘Melograno’ means. | Branding |
| 09 Jun 2025 | FAIR Project - The Linux Foundation has announced the FAIR Package Manager Project, which promises to be an alternative repository source for distributing WordPress Themes and Plugins. This project was revealed in a side event (Alt Ctrl Org), held after Day 1 of the WordCamp Europe 2025 event. The fairpm GitHub page has more technical information. Learn more about this project from Joost de Valk, Karim Marucchi, Siobhan McKeown, Ryan McCue, KrautPress podcast, and Reddit thread. Here is what Matt Mullenweg said about this project (YouTube) at the WordCamp Europe 2025 stage, during the fireside chat with Mary Hubbard. | Ecosystem |
| 06 Jun 2025 | Do the Woo Rebrands - The ‘Do the Woo’ podcast network has rebranded to OpenChannels FM, embracing evolution from being WooCommerce focused in the early days to now embracing a wider conversation about WordPress, open source, and the open web. | Branding |
| 09 Jun 2025 | WP Umbrella + Patchstack - Aurelio Volle shared (LinkedIn) about a brand new security addon called Site Protect on the WP Umbrella platform. It is powered by Patchstack for protection against plugin/theme vulnerabilities and much more. | Partnerships |
| 11 Jun 2025 | SEO in the Age of AI - Over 700 WordPress professionals participated in the ‘SEO in the age of AI’ report prepared by the teams at WP Rocket, Rank Math, and Weglot. Over 76% of respondents said they have integrated AI in their SEO workflows for the purpose of content planning (34%) and creative ideas (44%). Interestingly, 57% of marketers reported a boost in organic traffic from AI use. The majority of people stick to 1 to 3 AI tools for SEO in their current stack. Also, 86% of users have already increased their AI usage compared to 2023! | Ecosystem |
| 12 Jun 2025 | Automattic + Clay - Automattic has acquired Clay, a relationship management tool that automatically organizes and searches your entire network. “This partnership will help us further our vision for the future of connecting humans”. | Acquisitions |
| 11 Jun 2025 | WP Rocket + GoDaddy - A new collaboration has been announced between WP Rocket and GoDaddy Website Design Service. WP Rocket will be setup in the customers’ dashboards for website optimization by the GoDaddy Website Design Service team. | Partnerships |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Hostinger + Niagahoster - Niagahoster is the Indonesian branch of Hostinger, which was started 13 years ago. It has been fully integrated with the parent Hostinger brand for one unified branding going forward. | Branding |
| 12 Jun 2025 | JetHost + WebHostFace - JetHost, which was launched in April 2025, has made a big first step by acquiring WebHostFace brand, which will be merged into JetHost, moving forward. “This isn’t just about merging two hosting brands. It’s about combining strengths”. | Acquisitions |
| 30 Jun 2025 | HostGator & BigRock Merge - From July 15, 2025, HostGator India will merge with BigRock. As a result, all customers of HostGator India will be migrated to the BigRock server and served under the BigRock brand moving forward. | Acquisitions |
| 24 Jun 2025 | WP Umbrella €1M Revenue - Continuing with build and share in public, Aurelio Volle shared about the WP Umbrella crossing €1M in ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) milestone. Also, progressing with features like a new reporting system, Patchstack integration, and other partnerships. | Revenue |
| 07 Jul 2025 | InstaWP Pricing - InstaWP v3 is switching to ‘pay as you go’ pricing from the fixed pricing model. Check the pricing page for 7 plans and add-on options. NitroPack has introduced new pricing plans with the Starter plan from $7 monthly and the Plus plan from $18 monthly, with 5GB and 25GB CDN bandwidth allowance, respectively. | Revenue |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Social Pilot - ‘Group .one’ behind popular brands like RankMath, GTMetrix, and WP Rocket, has acquired Social Pilot service, an online tool for social content scheduling across various social platforms. | Acquisitions |
| 21 Jul 2025 | New Kiravo Pricing - kiravo Hosting has introduced new reduced pricing plans starting from €5 per month per site. The founder, Andrei Chira, shared (LinkedIn) “clients told us they’d love something better than cheap shared cPanel hosting, but not as expensive as the managed WordPress hosting plans”. | Revenue |
| 04 Aug 2025 | The State of WordPress in Higher Education 2025 - WPCampus and Human Made have published The State of WordPress report in higher education, based on the findings from their May 2025 survey. It features insights from 115 experts working with WordPress in higher education. Download the Report to understand how WordPress is delivering as a CMS in higher education and what is the level of adoption of block editors and Full Site Editing within the industry. | Ecosystem |
| 04 Aug 2025 | 2025 mid-year WordPress Vulnerability Report - Oliver Sild from Patchstack summarized (Links X) the current state of vulnerabilities in the WordPress space. In 6 months, 6,700 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem, “41% are exploitable in real-life attacks. Meaning: they can be weaponized right now”. Out of this, 57.6% of all vulnerabilities can be exploited by complete outsiders. “No access barriers for attackers. These vulns can be used in fully automated, large-scale attacks”. Grab the full report at the Patchstack website. | Ecosystem |
| 19 Aug 2025 | Page Builder Accessibility 2025 - The team at Equalize Digital has published its second annual report comparing the out-of-the-box accessibility of WordPress page builder plugins and block libraries. The top page builders were: Kadence (100%), GeneratePress / GenerateBlocks (81.66%), Greyd (77.28%), Elementor (75.55%), Greenshift (72.07%), Beaver Builder (68.47%), Breakdance (65.84%), and Bricks (63.57%). | Ecosystem |
| 26 Aug 2025 | 2025 Woo Merchant Survey - Jay Walsh from WooCommerce shared findings of the 2025 merchant survey, based on 249 responses. The website performance optimization (33.4%) has overtaken inventory management (32.6%) as the top Black Friday prep strategy – a reversal from the 2024 trend. | Ecosystem |
| 30 Aug 2025 | WordPress Org Traffic - Matt Mullenweg recapped a few important things in the Summer WordPress Update. Traffic to the WordPress .org website is up, and the plugins review queue has been brought down from months to a few days. | Ecosystem |
| 26 Aug 2025 | Rocket .net Hosting - Rocket .net is now part of Hosting .com group, Ben Gabler, Rocket .net founder, has been appointed Hosting .com’s Chief Product Officer. Moving forward, the integrated focus will be on hosting.com and its family of brands worldwide, including Rocket .net. Check the interview (YouTube) by Konrad Keck from WebhostingToday. | Acquisitions |
| 01 Sep 2025 | Elementor + Patchstack - Elementor Cloud Hosting customers can now get automated security through their partnership with Patchstack. There is no setup required; the vulnerability scanner runs at the infrastructure level, hence it does not affect website performance and provides around the clock security. | Partnerships |
| 08 Sep 2025 | WordPress Security Stats 2025 - The team at Melapress has published their security survey findings, which received over 264 responses. Overall, 96% of respondents faced at least one security incident/event, and 64% suffered a full breach. Interestingly, only 1 in 4 respondents has a breach recovery plan in place. | Ecosystem |
| 08 Sep 2025 | MapSVG - Alexander Gilmanov shared that the MapSVG plugin has been acquired (LinkedIn) and is now part of their Melograno network product line. Originally built by Roman Stepanov, the MapSVG plugin allows you to create interactive vector maps, floor plans, and image maps – ideal for real estate websites, store locators, and seating charts. | Acquisitions |
| 15 Sep 2025 | RSL Project - A few big names are supporting the new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) endeavor. This open standard allows web publishers to define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation – in the age of AI and web crawlers. Matt Mullenweg shared about this and the RSL plugin for WordPress users by James LePage. “Now the thing to figure out is distribution and adoption”. | Ecosystem |
| 15 Sep 2025 | Domain .com - Jessica Snavely shared (LinkedIn) about Domain .com joining the Network Solutions. This follows a similar change for Web .com and Register .com – becoming Network Solutions. | Acquisitions |
| 29 Sep 2025 | OttoKit Price Hike - Automation platform, OttoKit Lifetime Plans price is increasing in the coming days. The Pro Lifetime will increase from $399 to $499, and Business Lifetime will increase from $699 to $799. The Business Plus Lifetime will remain unchanged at $1,499. | Revenue |
| 06 Oct 2025 | WP Umbrella 100K MRR - Aurelio Volle shared (LinkedIn) about the WP Umbrella crossing the $100k in MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) milestone, with 2,137+ new websites connected in the last month, bringing the $3,401+ MRR. | Revenue |
| 01 Oct 2025 | Woo + Snapchat - Jay Walsh shared about the new ads manager integration between Woo and Snapchat. This will enable WooCommerce merchants to create dynamic, shoppable ads for Snapchat users, with auto-syncing catalogs and one-click conversion tracking. | Partnerships |
| 02 Oct 2025 | Gutena Forms - The team at WPExperts has acquired Gutena Forms plugin from Vikas Singhal, InstaWP founder. Gutena Forms is a block based form solution for WordPress users. In the future, “We are looking forward to extending the functionality of Gutena Forms to achieve what other big form plugins are doing outside the block editor”. | Acquisitions |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Modular DS + Patchstack - Reyes Martínez Duque shared (LinkedIn) about the Modular DS partnership with Patchstack. This will bring advanced security right into the dashboard of Modular DS users, providing stronger website protection without the need of additional tools or complex setups. | Partnerships |
| 14 Nov 2025 | PeachPay to ConvesioPay - Thomas M Fanelli shared about (LinkedIn) PeachPay becoming a part of Convesio. Moving forward, ConvesioPay will be powered and delivered through PeachPay’s all-in-one payments and checkout experience for WooCommerce users. | Acquisitions |
| 18 Nov 2025 | CloudLinux Invest in Seahawk - CloudLinux Software Inc., involved in hosting infrastructure, security, and performance technology, has announced a strategic investment in the Seahawk Media to scale its WordPress maintenance, support, design, and development operations across the global hosting ecosystem. | Investments |
| 17 Nov 2025 | WPBeginner Exit Seahawk - Syed Balkhi shared about WPBeginner Pro Services exiting investment in the Seahawk Media. Added, “Due to a misalignment in our long-term vision with Seahawk Media leadership, we have made the difficult but the right decision to exit our investment”. | Investments |
| 21 Nov 2025 | WordPress .com at 20 - “On June 20, 2005, WordPress project co-founder Matt Mullenweg hired Donncha Ó Caoimh, and Automattic was born. After beta testing in August 2005, WordPress .com launched publicly on November 21, 2005”. Now powering over 20B page views monthly – WordPress .com has come a long way and has more milestones to reach. | Ecosystem |
| 07 Jan 2026 | Patchstack + Seahawk - WordPress agency brand, Seahawk Media, has partnered with Patchstack to offer security solutions for its white-label WordPress services for businesses and hosts, including development, and support. | Partnerships |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Support Inclusion in Tech - SiNC (Support Inclusion in Tech) started the contributor funding program in 2025. They have opened applications for 2026, “We’re putting money directly in the hands of WordPress contributors and organizers…”. | Ecosystem |
| 09 Dec 2025 | WooCommerce + Mastercard - Jay Walsh shared about the new partnership of WooCommerce with Mastercard. “Through the partnership, WooCommerce merchants will gain access to Mastercard Merchant Cloud, a unified gateway offering enhanced payment processing and advanced fraud prevention”. | Partnerships |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Stripe’s Agentic + Woo - Stripe has announced Agentic Commerce Suite with WooCommerce support from day one. This would enable WooCommerce merchants to connect their product catalog once and reach customers shopping through any AI agent they prefer. In this setup, Stripe will handle discovery, checkout, payments, and fraud protection. | Partnerships |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Yoast & Microsoft - Yoast has announced a collaboration with NLWeb, the open framework developed by Microsoft for making web readable and usable by AI systems. “Through this integration, Yoast will become one of the first organizations to help websites built on WordPress communicate directly with AI agents in a consistent, privacy respecting way”. | Partnerships |
| 12 Jan 2026 | FireBox - The popup plugin to capture leads, FireBox will have new prices from February 1, 2026. Updated plan prices are: Basic €59 (Previously €49), Pro €79 (Previously €69), and Growth €129 (Previously €109). | Revenue |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Big Bite - WP Engine has acquired Big Bite, an enterprise agency in the WordPress and web space. “We are excited to bring our two organizations together to unlock growth and develop unique product offerings for digital agencies…”. | Acquisitions |
| 12 Jan 2026 | 2025 Annual Spam Report - The team OOPSpam has published the 2025 annual spam report. It found residential proxies now the primary attack vector, and WordPress remains the top target at 61% of CMS-based spam. The United States leads spam origin at 44%, followed by Brazil (23%), China (16%), India (11%), and UK (6%). | Ecosystem |
| 14 Oct 2024 | Nexter Blocks - The Plus Blocks for Gutenberg plugin from the team at POSIMYTH Innovations has rebranded to Nexter Blocks and is joining other products – Nexter Theme and Nexter Extension. | Branding |
| 17 Oct 2024 | Internet Archive - The WordPress Foundation Board of Directors made the unanimous decision to make a contribution of $100,000 to the Internet Archive. | Investments |
| 17 Oct 2024 | Squarespace - Permira, the global investment firm, has completed acquisition of Squarespace, Inc. in an all-cash transaction that valued the Company at an aggregated transaction value of approximately $7.2 billion. | Acquisitions |
| 29 Oct 2024 | New Woo Logo - The official brand logo of WooCommerce is getting a makeover. Check the new Woo logo (Links X), where woo word animate into cart icon. | Branding |
| 11 Nov 2024 | NoFrillsCloud - Kevin Graham from Site Arrow has acquired NoFrillsCloud hosting. With this acquisition, everything including the NoFrillsCloud branding and services will continue like before. | Acquisitions |
| 07 Nov 2024 | Wordfence - From December 05, 2024, Worfence will be increasing prices across all plans. Like Wordfence Premium Plan will go up to $149 per year from $119 per year. | Revenue |
| 13 Nov 2024 | Investment in Patchstack - G+D Ventures along with Karma Ventures and Emilia Capital recently invested in Patchstack. Alberto Pérez Arranz from G+D Ventures shared (LinkedIn) on why they invested in Patckstack and “why we believe it’s a game-changer for the future of open-source security”. | Investments |
| 12 Nov 2024 | WP Full Pay - Ionut Neagu from Themeisle shared (Links X) about the acquisition of the WP Full Pay plugin, a Stripe payment integration plugin for WordPress websites. | Acquisitions |
| 19 Nov 2024 | New WordPress Director - Mary Hubbard is the new director of the WordPress project. "I’m excited to contribute to the ongoing work that shapes WordPress for millions worldwide." | Ecosystem |
| 21 Nov 2024 | Harper - Automattic has acquired Harper, a grammar checker for developers, and its founder Elijah Potter, has joined Automattic. | Acquisitions |
| 02 Dec 2024 | Infinite Uploads - The team at ClikIT has acquired Infinite Uploads and Big File Uploads plugins from UglyRobot LLC, which is owned by Aaron Edwards, the former CTO at WPMU DEV. | Acquisitions |
| 02 Dec 2024 | BlackRock’s investment in Automattic - Ivan Mehta at Techcrunch reports that BlackRock has cut the worth of its stake investment in Automattic by 10%. They invested in Automattic during its Series E round in 2021, valued at $37.5 per share, down from $41.7 per share earlier this year. | Investments |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Advanced File Manager - WPExperts has acquired the Advanced File Manager Plugin from Modal Web. Going forward, WPExperts plans to add new features to this plugin. | Acquisitions |
| 14 Jan 2025 | WPAI - Automattic has acquired WPAI, AI for WordPress, featuring products like CodeWP, WP .chat, and AgentWP. The WPAI team including James, Greg, and Ovi will be joining Automattic. | Acquisitions |
| 17 Dec 2024 | The WP Community Collective - It has been officially incorporated as a nonprofit, as on November 13, 2024 - to support communities of WordPress and open-source software. | Ecosystem |
| 19 Dec 2024 | MasterWP Domain - Matt Medeiros, from Matt Report and The WP Minute, has acquired (Links X) the MasterWP .com domain, now focusing on WordPress training. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Jan 2025 | WP Rocket 500 Sites Plan - WP Rocket, website speed and performance optimzation plugin, has added a new 500 websites plan at $599 per year. | Revenue |
| 14 Jan 2025 | WP Coupons - Brian Jackson was looking for someone to take over the WP Coupons plugin, and it has been acquired now (Links X). The new owner has not been revealed yet. | Acquisitions |
| 13 Jan 2025 | 99w's Woo Extensions - The team at Kestrel has acquired 11 Woo extensions from David Allsop, founder of 99w. Previously, they also acquired extensions from Barn2, KoiLab, and CheckoutWC. Now have 40+ Woo extensions. | Acquisitions |
| 08 Jan 2025 | GTmetrix - Group .one, the owner of popular WordPress products like RankMath and WPRocket, has acquired GTmetrix, a popular online website performance testing and monitoring service. Now, with a significant portfolio of products and services, the company clocked €350 million in revenue in the financial year ending September 30, 2024. | Acquisitions |
| 16 Jan 2025 | Kadence New Plans - Kadence introducing new pricing and licensing structure from Feb 01, 2025. The unlimited websites limit is now capped and new express $69/yr plan. | Revenue |
| 27 Jan 2025 | 2024 Annual Spam Report - OOPSpam has published 2024 Annual Spam Report, revealing that the United States and China are the largest sources of spam, 69% of spam target websites use WordPress. | Ecosystem |
| 27 Jan 2025 | State of Enterprise WordPress - The 2024 edition of The State of Enterprise WordPress Survey reveals WordPress VIP and WP Engine among the top 3 hosting choices. | Ecosystem |
| 27 Jan 2025 | White House Website - The brand new White House website of the government of United States of America is powered by WordPress CMS, possibly using custom blocks in the block editor for the layout. | Ecosystem |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Post Status - Joost and Marieke are acquiring Post Status from Cory and Lindsey Miller (they acquired it from the founder Brian Krogsgard in 2020). Also, moving forward, Post Status will become a non-profit. | Acquisitions |
| 21 Jan 2025 | $500K+ Contribution - In its continued efforts of supporting the open source ecosystem, contributors, and WordPress – GoDaddy has pledged $520,000 to the mission of The WP Community Collective, which supports independent contributions to projects in the open source community. | Investments |
| 09 Sep 2024 | Yikes Inc - karmadharma is welcoming the team at Yikes, Inc. agency under their brand. “For all clients, whether they’re part of the karmadharma community or a Yikes client – which is now happily under the karmadharma...”. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Sep 2024 | Really Simple Security - Really Simple SSL, a popular SSL plugin with 5 million installs, has rebranded to Really Simple Security to reflect the plugin’s evolution from a simple SSL configuration tool to an extensive security solution. | Branding |
| 23 Sep 2024 | Patchstack $5M Investment - The popular security service of the WordPress ecosystem, Patchstack has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round; this investment follows a €2.7M R&D grant received in 2022. Emilia Capital, from the founders of the Yoast SEO plugin – Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk, is a participant in this investment round. | Investments |
| 12 Sep 2024 | WordPress 6.6 Contribution - Check a detailed breakdown of which companies contributed the most in the release of WordPress 6.6 'Dorsey' release. | Ecosystem |
| 24 Sep 2024 | WordPress Trademark - The WordPress Trademark Policy has been updated with ongoing issue with WP Engine. See what exactly was updates by comparing changes, via Matt Pritchett. | Ecosystem |
| 16 Sep 2024 | Solid Mail - The team at SolidWP has rebranded the WP SMTP plugin with over 80,000+ installs as a new Solid Mail Plugin for transactional mail integration with various third-party email services. | Branding |
| 25 Sep 2024 | Price Hike Works - Around three months back, WP Fusion raised prices by 20% on annual plans. Jack Arturo shared insights on how this price hike worked with increasing average order value from new customers. | Revenue |
| 01 Aug 2024 | WP Umbrella - Aurelio Volle shared about WP Umbrella reaching $500K in annual recurring revenue and now being installed on over 30,000 websites. | Revenue |
| 09 Aug 2024 | WP Change Admin - The team at WPExperts has acquired the WP Change Admin plugin and rebranded it as the All in One Login (AIO Login) plugin. Also, launched a new AIO plugin website with the pro version listing. | Branding |
| 05 Aug 2024 | Woo Express - WooCommerce .com had removed the Woo Express plan, as reported in the last issue. James Kemp has clarified (Links X) that Woo Express has been rebranded as a Commerce plan and moved to the WordPress .com website. | Branding |
| 01 Aug 2024 | Launches moved to new Directory - Moving forward, all new WordPress plugins and services launches will be listed in the dedicated and all new WordPress Launches Directory listing space. | Launches |
| 02 Aug 2024 | WP Charitable - David Bisset, Product Manager of WP Charitable LLC, shared (LinkedIn) all new look of the WP Charitable website – neat and easy to navigate. | Branding |
| 02 Aug 2024 | Learn WordPress - Kathryn Presner shared about the all new look of the Learn WordPress website at the WordPress org - love the new look and more organized. | Branding |
| 05 Aug 2024 | Next Bricks - Bricks Core, an addon for Bricks Builder, has rebranded to Bricks Next. The new website is fancy showcasing various elements and features it brings to the Bricks ecosystem. | Branding |
| 29 Jul 2024 | AweDesk - The team at Peepso launched the Almighty Support plugin back in August 2023. It has been rebranded to the new name Awedesk. Now comes in two options: Awedesk SaaS and Awedesk WordPress plugin. | Branding |
| 04 Jun 2024 | 50 WordPress Statistics in 2024 - Insightful to know these 50 WordPress Statistics for year 2024, for market share, user demographics, languages, security, WooCommerce, and more. | Ecosystem |
| 13 Jun 2024 | Redirection for CF7 - Ionut Neagu from Themeisle has acquired (Links X) ‘Redirection for Contact Form 7’. This plugin has over 300,000+ active installs, and the pro version is priced at $99 and $199. | Acquisitions |
| 19 Jun 2024 | WordCamp Sponsorship Value - Maarten Belmans from Wombat Plugins shared a detailed breakdown of the 4,258 USD spent on WordCamp Europe sponsorship and the overall experience. | Ecosystem |
| 18 Jun 2024 | Ai Bud plugin - Ahmad Hussein has acquired (Links X) the Ai Bud plugin, AI Content Generator WordPress Plugin, from Çağdaş Dağ – and shared the learning during this acquisition process. | Acquisitions |
| 01 Jul 2024 | Top WooCommerce Plugins - The team at Metorik has published Insights Report for WooCommerce analyzing in-house data. As per this report, top five WooCommerce Plugins are: Stripe Gateway, Facebook for Woo, Paypal Payments, Mailchimp for Woo, and Subscriptions. Grab the full report for free; it requires an email sign up. | Ecosystem |
| 08 Jul 2024 | CMS Market Share - Joost de Valk has published the updated CMS market share with data from the HTTP Archive. WordPress is still the most popular CMS with a 35.47% market share, followed by Shopify (3.81%), Wix (2.51%). | Ecosystem |
| 01 Jul 2024 | WP Market share (2010 - 2023) - Check this cool animation (Links X) from the team at Human Made showing changing WordPress market share from 2010 to 2023 in the CMS ecosystem. | Ecosystem |
| 01 Jul 2024 | Honeypot for CF7 - Saad Iqbal at WPExperts has acquired the Honeypot for Contact Form 7 plugin from the team at Nocean. With this acquisition, WPExperts now has over 1.5 million active users, across all its plugins. | Acquisitions |
| 01 Jul 2024 | CheckoutWC - The team at Kestrel acquired CheckoutWC from Clifton Griffin, its founder. CheckoutWC adds a Shopify style cart and checkout page to a WooCommerce store. | Acquisitions |
| 15 Jul 2024 | Liquid Web - With all new branding and look, Liquid Web Hosting website is live now. The new makeover look is neat and very professional looking. | Branding |
| 09 Jul 2024 | BuddyBoss - The Awesome Motive group have acquired BuddyBoss platform. Moving forward, “With the exception of Tom and Michael (founders), the entire team will continue in their current roles…”. | Acquisitions |
| 18 Jul 2024 | NitroPack - WP Engine has acquired Nitropack service that focuses on improving site speed and performance metrics. Moving forward, Nitropack co-founders, Georgi and Mihail, are embarking on new venture called Navigation AI. | Acquisitions |
| 22 Jul 2024 | WowStore - The team at WPXPO has rebranded the "ProductX" to the all new WowStore branding – a store builder for WooCommerce pages like shop, product, cart, archive, search, and more. | Branding |
| 26 Jul 2024 | Ollie Theme - Mike McAlister shared (Links X) about the Ollie Theme, a block based WordPress theme, generating first $10k in subscription in less than a month; congrats! | Revenue |
| 29 Jul 2024 | WP Mayor - The founder Mark Zahra shared the new look of WP Mayor website, a resource website for WordPress users. The new look is all light, super neat, and very readable. | Branding |
| 29 Jul 2024 | Pressable - Going with the darker color palette, the new look Pressable WordPress hosting website, part of Automattic, is now live with layouts powered by the block editor. | Branding |
| 29 Jul 2024 | Convesio Convert - Convesio WordPress hosting acquired Growmatik service sometime back. Now, it has rebranded and relaunched it as Convesion Convert service for marketing automation and website personalization. | Branding |
| 29 Jul 2024 | VendBase - Mark Ashton recently launched WooBase which focused on easier and faster management of WooCommerce websites. Moving forward, WooBase has been renamed to VendBase and everything else remains same. | Launches, Branding |
| 30 May 2024 | LowFruits - Benjamin Rojas from All in One SEO, which is part of Syed Balki's WPBeginner growth fund, has acquired LowFruits, a keyword research tool designed to boost SEO. | Acquisitions |
| 30 May 2024 | Hostinger - In 2023, Hostinger's consolidated revenue increased by 57% year-over-year to €110.2 million and achieved 1st year of EBITDA profitability, reaching € 2.4 million. | Revenue |
| 27 May 2024 | GutenKit Pro - The team at Wpmet has launched the GutenKit Pro version with enhanced features, functionality, and block templates. | Launches |
| 22 May 2024 | WP Engine - WP Engine Hosting has introduced a new brand identity with a new Look website. The team also shared the behind the scenes of this brand refresh. | Branding |
| 21 May 2024 | Webglobe - The team at group .one has signed an agreement to acquire Webglobe web hosting and cloud services from Igor Strečko and Sandberg Capital. | Acquisitions |
| 09 May 2024 | Growmatik - Convesio, a managed hosting provider for WordPress, has acquired Growmatik platform for marketing automation for WordPress and WooCommerce users. | Acquisitions |
| 08 May 2024 | LearnDash Addons - StellarWP group, owner of LearnDash, has acquired LearnDash addons from WisdmLabs, like group registration, ratings, content cloner. | Acquisitions |
| 03 May 2024 | KryptoniteWP - Florian Dee has sold KryptoniteWP brand, featuring a collection of WordPress Plugins, to focus on other projects in the WordPress space. | Acquisitions |
| 02 May 2024 | Envato - Popular among WordPress users for themes, plugins, and design elements - Envato has been acquired by Shutterstock for USD$245 million price tag. | Acquisitions |
| 01 May 2024 | Future of Team - James Giroux has rebranded the TeamWP project and re-launched it as Future of Team. Also, Remkus de Vries has joined this project as a co-founder. | Branding |
| 30 Apr 2024 | AccessAlly - The team at Caseproof led by Blair Williams has acquired AccessAlly and PopupAlly. It will be a part of Syed Balkhi’s WPBeginner Growth Fund. | Acquisitions |
| 30 Apr 2024 | WPShout - CodeinWP and WPShout websites have been merged together, will be called WPShout moving forward as a hub for powerful WordPress content. | Branding |
| 26 Apr 2024 | Hyve AI Chatbot - Themeisle has launched OpenAI powered Hyve AI Chatbot for WordPress that trains on your existing content to respond to inquiries and providing answers. | Launches |
| 18 Mar 2024 | Elementor Static Hosting - Automatically serve your Elementor made website in a static version with Elementor Static Hosting for more speed, scalability, and security. | Launches |
| 10 Jan 2024 | Image Optimizer Plugin - The team at Elementor has launched Image Optimizer that reduces image size through various compression and resizing techniques. | Launches |
| 19 Apr 2024 | Product Feed Pro - AdTribes known for the Product Feed Pro plugin for WooCommerce is joining Rymera Web Co family of WooCommerce solutions ecosystem. | Acquisitions |
| 11 Apr 2024 | Gravity SMTP - Fix email sending when using Gravity Forms with new Gravity SMTP that allows you to connect forms to secure and reliable SMTP providers of your choice. | Launches |
| 09 Apr 2024 | WooCommerce - In October 2023, WooCommerce .com migrated to Woo .com domain. Now they are migration Woo .com back to WooCommerce .com domain. | Branding |
| 09 Apr 2024 | Beeper - Automattic has acquired Beeper, a universal chat app with over 115,000 users allows you to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks. Matt shared more. | Acquisitions |
| 08 Apr 2024 | Smart Form Builder - Veena Prashanth and the team have launched a new Smart Forum Builder plugin for creating community forum space powered by a WordPress website. | Launches |
| 04 Apr 2024 | EcoRewards - WPPOOL has launched Echo Rewards Pro that allows you to setup refer a friend rewards program with automatic referral coupon generation, reward email customization. | Launches |
| 27 Mar 2024 | Gravity Kit - Zack Katz shared how Gravity Kit (previously called Gravity View) made $4,000 on the day one and then surpassed $5.5 million in sales in the next 10 years. | Revenue |
| 01 Apr 2024 | Elementor Form Show/Hide - Conditional logic for Elementor Form to display or hide some form fields with Conditional Fields addon by Cool Plugins, free version also available. | Launches |
| 01 Apr 2024 | Simple Custom Fields - Marco Almeida has released Simple Custom Fields, promising an easy process of adding custom fields to the new Woo block-based checkout. | Launches |
| 01 Apr 2024 | QODE Wishlist - Create multiple private, public, or shared wishlists with QODE Wishlist for WooCommerce plugin by the team at Qode Interactive. | Launches |
| 03 Apr 2024 | Melapress File Monitor - Website Files Changes Monitor plugin has been rebranded and relaunched as Melapress File Monitor plugin with free version in repository. | Branding |
| 21 Mar 2024 | Aircraft Builder - The team at LifterLMS has launched Aircraft Builder to ease the course sales page creation with the power of design template library. | Launches |
| 05 Mar 2024 | Rockbase - Chris Hufnagel and Rafal Tomal have partnered to launch the Rockbase theme promising a solid foundation theme that is block ready, lightweight, and extensible. | Launches |
| 14 Mar 2024 | Two Woo Plugins - Gautam Garg shared about (Links X) acquiring two Woo Plugins, UPI QR Code Payment Gateway and Razorpay Payment Links, from Sayan Datta. | Acquisitions |
| 23 Feb 2024 | Scale Consortium - It is a new group brand representing some of the most successful enterprise WordPress agencies with focus on the enterprise layer of WordPress. | Branding |
| 05 Mar 2024 | Syde - Inpsyde, one of the biggest WordPress agency in Europe, has rebranded to a new identity is now called Syde - reflecting its evolution and renewed vision. | Branding |
| 01 Mar 2024 | 7 Barn2 Plugins - Kestrel, the former co-founders of SkyVerge (which is now part of GoDaddy), has acquired seven WooCommerce plugins from the Barn2 team. | Acquisitions |
| 22 Feb 2024 | Startise - M Asif Rahman has launched a new core parent group, Startise brand for their products like WPDeveloper, Easy Jobs, Storeware, Templately, xCloud, and more. | Branding |
| 21 Feb 2024 | AnalyticsWP - Made for WordPress websites, AnalyticsWP Plugin promises easy to understand stats, conversion journeys, and more data collection by Mike Holubowski. | Launches |
| 06 Dec 2023 | Liquid AI - The WordPress .com parent company, Automattic, is one of many investors to raise $37.6M for Liquid AI, promising a new generation of AI models. | Investments |
| 15 Feb 2024 | Beacon .by - OptinMonster has acquired Beacon, a service for creating lead magnets and opt-in forms. Beacon's integration with OptinMonster is coming soon. | Acquisitions |
| 12 Feb 2024 | reSmush it - ShortPixel, known for WordPress image optimization solutions, has acquired reSmush it, the original free image compression WordPress plugin and API. | Acquisitions |
| 10 Feb 2024 | Find My Blocks - Morgan Hvidt has adopted the Find My Blocks plugin on the WordPress repository from Eddy Sims for its future development and updates. | Acquisitions |
| 07 Feb 2024 | WP Inbox - Nelson Miller has launched WP Inbox, which organizes and syncs data from the website and displays information about a person in the sidebar of your inbox app. | Launches |
| 31 Jan 2024 | WPML Export & Import - This new export import addon plugin from the team at WPML facilitates an easier way to export and import multilingual WordPress content. | Launches |
| 01 Feb 2024 | WP Plugins Plus - Dave Grey from Our Web Services Ltd. has acquired plugins at WPPluginsPlus from Andrew Palmer and will have a new home at Our WP Plugins website. | Acquisitions |
| 31 Jan 2024 | WooCommerce Discount Manager - Create and display flexible WooCommerce discount rules with various discount types using this new plugin from the Barn2 team. | Launches |
| 30 Jan 2024 | GrooveHQ - WPBeginner Growth Fund (from Awesome Motive) has taken an investment stake in the GrooveHQ, a customer support help desk software. | Investments |
| 24 Jan 2024 | WPGetAPI - Updraft WP Software Ltd. has acquired WPGetAPI which allows you to connect to virtually any REST API and display the returned data on WordPress website. | Acquisitions |
| 25 Jan 2024 | xCloud - WPDeveloper is launching xCloud Platform promising a nex-gen WordPress cloud hosting and site management. Shahjahan Jewel from Fluent Forms has joined it as investor and partner. | Investments, Launches |
| 27 Jan 2024 | Really Simple Featured Video - Krishna Kant Chourasiya has released Really Simple Featured Video Pro that allow changing of video aspect ratio and video order on Woo products. | Launches |
| 10 Jan 2024 | Studio Wombat - In 2023 revenue grew by 48% selling 3,922 new plugin licenses, compared to 3,275 in 2022. No new plugin was released in 2023. | Revenue |
| 30 Dec 2023 | WP Umbrella - In 2023, WP Umbrella went from 7K MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) to 25K at the end of the year, that equates to $300,000 Annual Run Rate. | Revenue |
| 15 Jan 2024 | Rocket .net - They closed 2023 at an impressive $4.5mm ARR with growth rate of 150% and continuously adding more features to their WordPress Hosting platform. | Revenue |
| 31 Dec 2023 | Barn2 - Their WordPress plugins focused on WooCommerce stores exceeded $6,000,000 in lifetime revenues and welcomed 90,000th happy customer in the year 2023. | Revenue |
| 12 Jan 2024 | WP-Projects - Saarland company HostPress GmbH has acquired WP-Projects, a German provider of managed WordPress hosting, and will become part of it from February 1, 2024. | Acquisitions |
| 05 Jan 2024 | PersonalizeWP - Formerly known as WP-DXP, with investment and support from Emilia Capital, it has been rebranded as PersonalizeWP and launched with new features. | Branding, Launches |
| 08 Jan 2024 | FooGallery User Uploads - For FooGallery (Free and Pro) users, the User Uploads addon allows website visitors to contribute images directly from the front-end. | Launches |
| 16 Jan 2024 | Gravity Forms Global Search - Johnathon Williams has created the Global Search addon for Gravity Forms that allow searching from multiple forms with single search box. | Launches |
| 16 Jan 2024 | Advanced Composer Blocks - Marcus Burnette has released Advanced Composer Blocks, an addon for the Newsletter Plugin, that adds design and content options. | Launches |
| 20 Jan 2024 | ZIP Recipes - Igor Benić has acquired the ZIP Recipes plugin for food bloggers that allow easy creation and management of recipes on WordPress websites. | Acquisitions |
| 20 Dec 2023 | Bricks Admin Dashboard - Craig Fenton has launched Bricks Admin Dashboard that allows you to build WordPress admin dashboards easily with Bricks Builder. | Launches |
| 23 Dec 2023 | RoadMapWP - James Welbes has launched RoadMapWP WordPress plugin that is designed to enhance user engagement and feedback collection on WordPress websites. | Launches |
| 06 Jan 2024 | Conversion Bridge - Derek Ashauer, creator of Confetti plugin, has launched Conversion Bridge, a privacy-first analytics, to collect conversion data and custom events from your favorite WP plugins. | Launches |
| 18 Oct 2023 | Kinsta Static Sites - Kinsta has launched a Static Site Hosting that lets you build, deploy, and host up to 100 static sites on the platform for completely free, including static WordPress sites. | Launches |
| 20 Jan 2024 | WP Easy Email - Vinny McKee, Founder of WickedPlugins, shared about the launch of WP Easy Email service to fix WordPress website not sending emails or going to spam. | Launches |
| 03 Jan 2024 | Swift SMTP - David Vongries, founder of PBF Theme, has rebranded the Welcome Email Editor plugin into Swift SMTP plugin - a simple, free SMTP plugin for WordPress. | Branding |
| 12 Jan 2024 | Divi Form DB - Dave Grey has acquired (need LinkedIn Login) the Divi Form DB plugin that saves Divi Contact Form entries in database, new website is live. | Acquisitions |
| 03 Jan 2024 | WP Webhooks - Adrian Șpiac, co-founder of Cozmoslabs, has acquired the WP Webhooks plugin, an automation plugin for WordPress, from Jannis Thümmig. | Acquisitions |
| 13 Feb 2023 | Open Graph - The team at WPExperts has acquired the Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags Plugin, that has been around for over 12 years. | Acquisitions |
| 05 Jan 2023 | Duplicator - The team at Awesome Motive has acquired the Duplicator plugin, a popular plugin for WordPress website backups and migrations. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Oct 2023 | License Server - Jamie Madden's License Server for WooCommerce has been acquired by Peter through the Acquire .com service. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Dec 2023 | Grow Social - The team at NerdPress has made their first acquisition, Grow Social, the popular social media sharing WordPress plugin from Mediavine and rebranded to Hubbub. | Acquisitions |
| 18 Jan 2023 | LifterLMS - Jason and Kim Coleman, co-founders of Paid Memberships Pro, have made an investment in LifterLMS, that will extend to LiferLMS design and business aspects. | Investments |
| 24 Jan 2023 | Thrive Themes - The ‘Awesome Motive’ team has acquired Thrive Themes which feature a lot of tools like Thrive Architect, Thrive Theme Builder, Thrive Leads, and more. | Acquisitions |
| 27 Jan 2023 | WP Overnight - The UpdraftPlus team has acquired WP Overnight which specializes in addons for the WooCommerce store users. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Feb 2023 | Automattic - Sujay Pawar, the co-founder of Astra theme and many other WordPress products, has announced joining forces with the automatic company as a co-investor and advisor. | Investments |
| 13 Feb 2023 | Mail Mint - The team at WPFunnels has launched the Mail Mint plugin for email marketing automation within the WordPress dashboard. | Launches |
| 13 Feb 2023 | Setary App - James Kemp has launched the Setary App that promises to make bulk editing of WooCommerce products easy and quick in a lightning-fast spreadsheet environment. | Launches |
| 24 Apr 2023 | MemberMouse - Blair Williams shared about MemberPress acquiring another membership plugin called MemberMouse, emphasizing that these plugins won’t be merged and will grow independently. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Mar 2023 | WPLift - The popular WordPress tutorials blog WPLift was acquired sometime back, and now we know the owner – Ronik Patel, who also runs UnlimitedWP. | Acquisitions |
| 03 Mar 2023 | Advanced Ads - The team at MonetizeMore has acquired the Advanced Ads plugin, used for managing advertisements on WordPress websites. | Acquisitions |
| 28 Feb 2023 | WP101 - Awesome Motive has now acquired Shawn Hesketh’s WP101 website featuring WordPress tutorials and courses. Shawn Hesketh published about WP101 journey. | Acquisitions |
| 09 Mar 2023 | InboxWP - Saif Hassan from the WeDevs team has teased the upcoming InboxWP transactional emails service for WordPress users. | Launches |
| 15 Mar 2023 | ForGravity - Featuring collection of addons for Gravity Forms Plugin, ForGravity has been rebranded to CosmicGiant with aim to reduce brand confusion. | Branding |
| 14 Mar 2023 | Accessibility Checker - Joost and Marieke via Emilia Capital have invested in Equalize Digital to accelerate the growth of the Accessibility Checker WordPress Plugin. | Investments |
| 13 Mar 2023 | ActivityPub - Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plugin and recruited its developer. With this, replies posted on a federated site like Mastodon become blog post comments on WP(.)org & (.)com blogs. | Acquisitions |
| 20 Mar 2023 | EDD Pro - EDD has an all-new way of using the plugin with the launch of EDD Pro, which consolidates features of the EDD free plugin and premium add-ons. | Launches |
| 22 Mar 2023 | WP Admin Login - Focussing on acquiring an existing user base, the WPExperts team has acquired a free ‘change wp-admin login’ plugin with over 90,000+ active installs. | Acquisitions |
| 23 Mar 2023 | Exclusive Addons - Phil Crumm shared an insightful thread on Twitter on why and how the Elementor addon company, Exclusive Addons was finally sold for $70k on Flippa. | Acquisitions |
| 03 Apr 2023 | GutenbergHub - Munir Kamal has launched GutenbergHub Shop featuring individual blocks with specific functionality available for purchase at a one-time price. | Launches |
| 10 Apr 2023 | Payment Plans WC - The team at WPExperts has acquired Payment Plans WC plugin that gives the feature of “Buy Now and Pay Later” payment option. | Acquisitions |
| 10 Apr 2023 | Real Big Plugins - LearnDash (StellarWP) has acquired Real Big Plugins collection of add-ons, including Gradebook for LearnDash and LearnDash for Slack, MailChimp, ConvertKit. | Acquisitions |
| 17 Apr 2023 | Timetics - Creators behind EventIn and WPCafe plugins have launched a new Timetics plugin for online bookings and appointments. | Launches |
| 08 May 2023 | WishList Member - MemberPress (which is part of WPBeginner Growth Accelerator) has acquired the WishList Member plugin, popular for membership and course websites. | Acquisitions |
| 02 May 2023 | HeroThemes - WPBeginner Growth Fund has invested in the HeroThemes business, which sells a knowledge base theme and plugin. | Investments |
| 25 Apr 2023 | Sky Pilot Theme - LifterLMS has launched the Sky Pilot Theme, promising to give the best learner experience with a theme built exclusively for courses and membership websites. | Launches |
| 19 May 2023 | Kirki Framework - David Vongries’s Kirki Framework, a developer framework for the customizer settings, has been acquired by Themeum. | Acquisitions |
| 15 May 2023 | Plaster Plugin - Automatic(.)css has acquired and merged the functionality of the Plaster Plugin that is popular for features supporting WordPress page builder plugins. | Acquisitions |
| 15 May 2023 | WCVendors - Rymera Web Co. (portfolio company of Awesome Motive, as shared by Syed Balki) has acquired WCVendors, founder Jamie Madden has decided to pursue new projects. | Acquisitions |
| 15 May 2023 | Maxi Blocks - The team at Maxi Blocks has released the Maxi Blocks Pro version with a library of designer templates in addition to the free version in the WordPress repository. | Launches |
| 15 May 2023 | Express Shop Page - Barn2 has released the Express Shop Page plugin for WooCommerce websites, to select product quantities and variations without leaving the page. | Launches |
| 22 May 2023 | Tasty Pins - The team at WP Tasty has released a new Tasty Pins plugin that allows you to optimize blog post images for Pinterest and SEO. | Launches |
| 29 May 2023 | Intellipress - Robert DeVore shared about the launch of Intellipress, promising to be a smart AI assistant for WordPress, combining the power of AI with the Gutenberg block editor. | Launches |
| 29 May 2023 | AiBud WP Pro - The team at Stylemix has released the AiBud WP Pro plugin with a chat and fine-tuning feature that enables you to train the Chatbot. | Launches |
| 05 Jun 2023 | RankMath SEO - The popular RankMath SEO plugin has been acquired by Group One, which already owns plugins like WP Rocket and more. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Jun 2023 | User Feedback - Syed Balki’s team at MonsterInsights has released the User Feedback – that allows you to create interactive feedback forms, surveys, and polls. | Launches |
| 12 Jun 2023 | FuseWP - Collins Agbonghama has launched FuseWP which allows you to sync WordPress users with email marketing and CRM, supports MailChimp, Constant Contact. | Launches |
| 12 Jun 2023 | Spectra Pro - After being in the testing phase for quite some time, the Spectra Pro Plugin for block editor users is finally available for download and test drive. | Launches |
| 19 Jul 2023 | LiquidWeb - This went unnoticed until today; One Equity Partners has acquired LiquidWeb Hosting and formed a new holding company called CloudOne Digital. | Acquisitions |
| 03 Jul 2023 | WP Ultimo Next - WP Ultimo has launched WP Ultimo Next featuring new tools for your Website as a Service (WaaS) platform like types, workflows, studio, access gate. | Launches |
| 10 Jul 2023 | Woo Shipping - The team at Barn2 has released a new WooCommerce Shipping Calculator that makes it easy for visitors to calculate shipping costs upfront on the product page itself. | Launches |
| 17 Jul 2023 | ClickWhale - A WordPress plugin to shorten URLs and analyze clicks, ClickWhale Pro has been released that support eCommerce conversion and UTM campaign tracking. | Launches |
| 24 Jul 2023 | MemberDash - The LearnDash team has released the MemberDash Plugin, a standalone plugin to build simple and flexible membership websites on WordPress. | Launches |
| 11 Dec 2023 | Crosswinds Framework - After the release of the Crosswinds Blocks plugin, Jacob Martella has launched the entire Crosswinds Framework project, promising to ‘supercharge your website editing experience’. | Launches |
| 28 Jul 2023 | Woo Product Tabs - The team at Barn2 has made their first ever acquisition with the WooCommerce Product Tabs plugin acquired from WPConcern. | Acquisitions |
| 26 Sep 2023 | WP White Security - WordPress Security Plugins creator WP White Security has rebranded to MelaPress for a new chapter going forward. | Branding |
| 07 Aug 2023 | Powder - Brian Gardner’s Frost FSE theme was acquired by WPEngine sometime back, and now he has launched Powder with theme and child themes. | Launches |
| 07 Aug 2023 | Kraft Builder - The team behind Yellow Pencil has launched a new Kraft Builder plugin for developing a WordPress website in a visual mode; | Launches |
| 08 Aug 2023 | Gravity Shop - GravityWiz with new product line for customizing WooCommerce products by Gravity Forms, Gravity Shop Product Configurator is the first launch. | Launches |
| 07 Aug 2023 | ZipWP - The team behind the Astra theme and Sure Members has launched AI driven ZipWP service for automatic website layout suggestion and creation. | Launches |
| 10 Aug 2023 | Divi AI - The team at Divi has launched a Divi AI tools that uses AI powers to automatically generate images and text on your Divi made websites. | Launches |
| 08 Aug 2023 | Spectra Pro - The Block Editor builder plugin, Spectra has a pro version now with more features, coming from the creators of the popular Astra theme. | Launches |
| 15 Aug 2023 | BackWPup - Group .one has acquired BackWPup, Adminimize, Search & Replace from Inpsyde - joining their existing products: RankMath SEO, WP Rocket, & Imagify. | Acquisitions |
| 25 Aug 2023 | 100 Year Plan - WordPress .com has launched 100 year plan where your website remain alive even after you for 100 years, comes with $38,000 price tag. | Launches |
| 30 Aug 2023 | Rocket net - With an endeavor to invest in the future of WordPress, Rocket .net hosting has officially joined the Five for the Future program. | Investments |
| 04 Sep 2023 | SurelyWP - Nelson Miller has launched the SurelyWP project featuring addons for SureCart solution with addons like: User Switching and Wishlist. | Launches |
| 11 Sep 2023 | More Blocks - Ferdinand Nyarko has launched More Blocks for the Breakdance builder users offering more components and Google Chrome extension integration. | Launches |
| 11 Sep 2023 | API to Posts - wpgetapi has released API to Posts allowing you to create WordPress posts, custom posts, or WooCommerce products from the API data. | Launches |
| 11 Sep 2023 | Salonly - The team at ThemeDev has launched new Salonly booking plugin for online appointments on WordPress site for Beauty Salon and Spa businesses. | Launches |
| 25 Sep 2023 | Social Link Pages - Matthaus Klute has acquired the Social Link Pages plugin for $3000 from Corey Maass that allow creation of link-in-bio pages. | Acquisitions |
| 05 Oct 2023 | Envira Gallery - The Awesome Motive group continues its expansion with acquisition of Envira Gallery, NextGen Gallery, Photocrati Theme, and Soliloquy Slider. | Acquisitions |
| 04 Oct 2023 | Visser Labs - Rymera Web Co, with brands like Wholesale Suite and WC Vendors, has acquired Visser Labs, which focus on WooCommerce export import solutions. | Acquisitions |
| 09 Oct 2023 | Divi Assistant - Nelson Miller at Pee-Aye Creative has launched Divi Assistant with features and tools that promise to make website building with Divi easier. | Launches |
| 09 Oct 2023 | Droip - The team at Themeum has launched Droip Builder, promising a lot of features for visual website building on the self hosted WordPress platform. | Launches |
| 09 Oct 2023 | Fluent Booking - The team behind FluentCRM and Fluent Forms has an upcoming Fluent Booking plugin, a scheduling solution for webinars, appointments, events, and more. | Launches |
| 16 Oct 2023 | SolidWP (iThemes) - Announced a while back, the full rebranding of iThemes to SolidWP is now complete with products now being called Solid Security, Solid Backup, and Solid Central. | Branding |
| 16 Oct 2023 | UiChemy - The team at POSIMYTH has launched UiChemy tool that converts a Figma designs into an Elementor or block editor editable website. | Launches |
| 16 Oct 2023 | ASE - Wibowo Sulistio has released the pro version of Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) plugin that has many small yet seriously useful features for WordPress users. | Launches |
| 23 Oct 2023 | Rapyd - The team at BuddyBoss is gearing up to launch Rapyd Hosting, a high performance managed hosting for dynamic content memberships, LMS, and online community websites. | Launches |
| 24 Oct 2023 | Texts App - Automattic has acquired Texts app, a single dashboard for all your messages across platforms like WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, and more. | Acquisitions |
| 23 Oct 2023 | ImageSEO - Cristian Raiber, plugin creator at WPChill, has acquired ImageSEO .io from Aurelio Volle of WP Umbrella. Also, bought (ImageSEO .com) dot com domain for this product. | Acquisitions |
| 31 Oct 2023 | Woo - WooCommerce .com domain is changing to Woo. Here, Woo is the brand or company, while WooCommerce is the open-source eCommerce platform for WordPress. | Branding |
| 15 Nov 2023 | LatePoint - Brainstorm Force, the company behind Astra Theme, has invested in the LatePoint plugin for appointment booking and scheduling on WordPress. | Investments |
| 30 Oct 2023 | Seahawk Media - A global WordPress services provider, Seahawk Media, founded by Ryan James and Gautam Khorana - has joined the WPBeginner Growth Fund. | Investments |
| 02 Nov 2023 | WP SMTP - Jack Kitterhing has acquired two plugins, Check & Log Email and WP SMTP, with a combined 170,000+ active installs. | Acquisitions |
| 06 Nov 2023 | Authority Blocks - Jeremy Koering has launched the Authority Blocks, a library of Kadence Blocks with 40+ blocks and templates focused on bloggers that sell affiliate products. | Launches |
| 06 Nov 2023 | OMGIMG - Cory Miller and Corey Maass have launched the OMGIMG Plugin that adds more useful content to featured images of your post or page content. | Launches |
| 06 Nov 2023 | WeDocs Pro - The team at weDevs is taking the next step with the launch of pro version of WeDocs plugin with more features and improvements. | Launches |
| 07 Nov 2023 | Crew HRM - Sekander Badsha shared about the launch of Crew HRM plugin for setting up an online job board on your WordPress website to facilitate job listing and recruitment. | Launches |
| 07 Nov 2023 | Project Huddle - It was acquired by Brainstorm Force from Andre Gagnon and now it has been rebranded to SureFeedback for expanding features and consistent branding with other products SureCart, SureMembers, & more. | Branding |
| 08 Nov 2023 | FlyWP - The team at weDevs has launched the FlyWP Server Management service. It promises to enable quick WordPress deployment and hosting on your own server of choice. | Launches |
| 25 Nov 2023 | Leevio - A new company brand Leevio has been founded by visionaries from weDevs and HappyMonster. Happy Media plugin is their first product launch. | Launches |
| 27 Nov 2023 | CoolPlugins - WordPress plugins shop at CoolPlugins.net has acquired the dot com version, CoolPlugins .com domain for $2800, as shared by their co-founder, Satinder Singh. | Branding |