Today marks a week since we launched WooCommerce – a brand new eCommerce plugin for WordPress. So far it has been, without doubt the most exciting week of my entire career. And so, for no other reason perhaps, than for me to look back on at a later date, I thought I’d compile some information on our launch.
In seven days we’ve seen:
- ~5000 downloads
- 190 support requests relating directly to WooCommerce and it’s associated themes & extensions
- Thousands of positive tweets
- 1 feature on a little known tech blog
There have also been favourable words from some prominent figures in the WordPress community:
“Great stuff from the Woo team here. I’ve code reviewed quite a bit of it and I’m comfortable saying WooCommerce is the best WordPress-native e-commerce solution available. I’m convinced enough that we’re switching to it from another e-commerce solution on a project that’s already months into development.”
“Would I recommend WooCommerce to others? Yes I would.”
“One of the best things about the back-end of WooCommerce is that it blends in seamlessly as if it were part of WordPress all along. They did a great job of using existing elements that are supported within WordPress such as the tabs, file uploader, and my favorite little feature, the calendar. I only referred to the readme file once during configuration…I was able to configure WooCommerce without any issues.”
So by-and-by I would say it has been an extremely satisfying launch. Let’s see what next week holds!