WOO COMMERCE

WooCommerce is a free WordPress e-commerce plugin that extends the functionalities of the CMS, allowing the creation of an online store. It has been downloaded over 15 million times, becoming one of the most popular plugins for WordPress.

According to BuiltWith statistics, WooCommerce is employed in about 37% of e-commerce systems. Overall, around 1.05 million websites use WooCommerce.

WooCommerce was born as a fork of the Jigoshop plugin. The plugin stands out for its seamless integration of e-commerce functions into the WordPress framework. Content of any type is mapped to the Custom Post Types provided by WordPress and to the custom taxonomies. Data is mostly stored in the metadata integrated into WordPress.