WooThemes
WooThemes is a software company known for developing WordPress themes and the WooFramework, a toolkit used by developers to build and customize WordPress themes. The company was founded in 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, and grew into a notable provider of premium themes and related development tools for the WordPress ecosystem.
The founders are commonly listed as Adii Pienaar, Mark Forrester, and Magnus Jepson. In its early years,
WooThemes is also renowned for creating WooCommerce, a free and extensible e-commerce plugin for WordPress released
In 2015, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, acquired WooThemes along with WooCommerce. The WooThemes brand was
Impact and legacy: WooThemes contributed to the growth of the WordPress ecosystem by providing accessible design