WordPress
Live
WooCommerce
The ecommerce plugin that powers a quarter of all stores.
MySQL
WooCommerce
Type
WordPress plugin / theme
Stack
PHP, MySQL, React
Year
2011
Duration
Ongoing
Overview
What I built & why
Open source ecommerce plugin for WordPress. Powers approximately 25% of all online stores on the open web.
Acquired by Automattic in 2015; remains free and open source with paid extensions for shipping, taxes, and payments.
Highlights
Key deliverables
- ✓ Free + open source core
- ✓ Extension marketplace
- ✓ Block-based cart + checkout
- ✓ REST API
- ✓ Multi-currency add-ons
Process
Challenge & solution
The challenge
A vendor lock-in clause forced a tight ninety-day migration window with zero room for service interruption.
The solution
Wrote a zero-downtime migration pipeline that mirrored writes to both systems, then cut over after a clean shadow-read week.
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