We’re Tracking Acquisitions and Investments in WordPress
Ellipsis Weather Report: WP -0.02 (-.02) Woo +0.05 (+.01)
Β 158Β Days Since the Last Acquisition. Get the Latest WordPress M&A NewsΒ β
Did we miss one? Tell us what you know.
| Date | Acquiring / Investing | Acquired / Invested In | Media / Press Releases | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (1) | ||||
| July 18 | WP Engine | NitroPack | WP Engine Acquires NitroPack, Founders Launch New Company to Connect Web Performance with Business Results | |
| July 9 | BuddyBoss | Awesome Motive | Welcome BuddyBoss to the WPBeginner Family of Products | |
| July 1 | WPExperts | Honeypot for Contact Form 7 Plugin | WPExperts Hits 1.5 Million Active Users with The Acquisition of Honeypot for Contact Form 7 Plugin | |
| July 1 | CheckoutWC | Kestrel | CheckoutWC Joins Kestrel | |
| June 19 | Links X | Ahmad Hussein | ΓaΔdaΕ DaΔ.: ΓaΔdaΕ DaΔ. (@cagdasdagg) | |
| June 17 | lonut Neagu | Redirection for Contact Form 7 | Ionut Neagu: Ionut Neagu (@hackinglife7) | |
| April 30 | Caseproof | AccessAlly | Big News! MemberPress and AccessAlly Unite to Supercharge Your Membership Sites | |
| April 24 | PublishPress | Logtivity | Logtivity is Now Part of PublishPress | |
| April 19 | Rymera Web Co | AdTribes | AdTribes Is Joining The Rymera Web Co Family | |
| March 14 | Knit Pay | Two plugins from Sayan Datta | Gautam Garg: Gautam Garg @GautamMKGarg | |
| February 15 | OptinMonster | Beacon Lead Magnet Creator | OptinMonster Acquires Beacon Lead Magnet Creator To Help Small Businesses Easily Generate More Leads | |
| January 28 | NerdPress | βOptimize Databaseβ Plugin | NerdPress: NerdPress Welcomes βOptimize Databaseβ Plugin to Our Family | |
| 2023 (13) | ||||
| December 6 | NerdPress | Grow Social | NerdPress: Say Hello to Hubbub, Elevating Your Social Sharing Experience | |
| October 6 | Peter Upton | License Server For WooCommerce | Jamie Madden: Jamie Madden (@dcwhatwhat). | |
| October 5 | Awesome Motive | Envira Gallery, NextGen Gallery, Photocrati Theme, and Soliloquy Slider | WP Beginner: Welcome Envira Gallery, NextGen Gallery, and More to the WPBeginner Family of Products | |
| October 4 | Rymera Web Co | Visser Labs | Visser Labs: Announcement: Visser Labs Acquired By Rymera Web Co | |
| September 25 | Matthaus Klute | Social Link Pages Plugin | WPTavern: Matthaus Klute Acquires Social Link Pages Plugin | |
| August 15 | group.one | BackWPup | group.one: group.one strengthens WordPress commitment with acquisition of BackWPup | |
| July 28 | Barn2 | WooCommerce Product Tabs | Barn2: Big news: WooCommerce Product Tabs is now part of the Barn2 family | |
| June 14 | One Equity Partners | Liquid Web | One Equity: One Equity Partners acquires cloud services provider Liquid Web and forms new holding company, CloudOne Digital | |
| May 30 | group.one | Rank Math | group.one: group.one extends WordPress ecosystem with SEO optimisation plugin Rank Math | |
| May 10 | Rymera Web Co. | WC Vendors | WC Vendors: WC Vendors Finds The Perfect New Home In Rymera | |
| May 2 | MemberPress | WishList Member | Memberpress: Welcome WishList Memberβ’ β The Newest Addition to the Caseproof Family | |
| April 7 | WPExperts | Payment Plans WC | WPExperts: WPExperts Acquires Payment Plans WC | |
| April 5 | LearnDash | Real Big Plugins collection | LearnDash: LearnDash Acquires Real Big Plugins Collection | |
| March 22 | WPExperts | Change wp-admin Login | WPExperts: WPExperts Acquires Change wp-admin Login Plugin | |
| March 19 | MonetizeMore | Advanced Ads | Advanced Ads: MonetizeMore acquires Advanced Ads | |
| March 13 | Automattic | ActivityPub for WordPress | TechCrunch: WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse | |
| February 28 | Awesome Motive | WP101 | WP Beginner: Welcome WP101 to the WPBeginner Family of Products Shawn Hesketh: Selling WP101: My Journey from Solopreneur to Team Player | |
| February 22 | MemberPress | MemberMouse | Blair Williams, Syed Balkhi | |
| February 13 | WPExperts | Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags | WPExperts: WPExperts Has Acquired Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags Plugin | |
| January 23 | Awesome Motive | Thrive Themes | WP Beginner: Welcome Thrive Themes to the WPBeginner Family of Products Shane Melaug: Thrive Themes Is Joining the Awesome Motive Family | |
| January 5 | Awesome Motive | Duplicator | WP Beginner: Welcome Duplicator to the WPBeginner Family of Products | |
| 2022 (31) | ||||
| October 25 | TaxoPress / PublishPress | Tag Groups π | Steve Burge: The Tag Groups Plugin is Now Part of TaxoPress Christoph Amthor: Tag Groups Has Found A New Home | |
| September 23 | Themeisle / CodeinWP | WP Shout πΈ | Ionut Neagu announced on Twitter he acquired Fred Meyer and David Hayes‘ tutorial website. They originally acquired it from Alex Denning in 2013. | |
| September 22 | PublishPress | MetaSlider Plugin and MetaSlider Lightbox π (Extendify) | WP Tavern: PublishPress Acquires MetaSlider Plugin and MetaSlider Lightbox | |
| September 7 | Automattic | GridPane π₯οΈ π΅ | GridPane: Self-Managed WordPress Pioneer GridPane Takes Strategic Investment from Automattic | |
| September 6 | Strive Calendar (Francisco Opazo) | Strive Content Calendar π (Compete Themes) | Strive tweeted the announcement. | $15,000 |
| September 6 | Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Devin Walker, Andrew Palmer, and Matt Russell. | Atarim βοΈ | Atarim: Atarim Raises First Funding Round to Bring Visual Collaboration To The Masses | |
| September 2 | Jetpack / Automattic | WP Super Cache π (Donncha Γ Caoimh) | WP Tavern: Jetpack Performance Team Takes Over WP Super Cache Development | |
| August 31 | Rocketgenius / Gravity Forms | Gravity Flow + Gravity Experts (Steven Henty) ππ οΈ | Gravity Forms: Gravity Forms Acquires Gravity Flow and Gravity Experts | |
| August 23 | DigitalOcean | Cloudways π₯οΈ | DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways Cloudways: Cloudways to Join DigitalOcean (Aaqib Gadit) | $350M (USD) cash |
| July 20 | SiteCare | Maintainn (formerly acquired by WebDev Studios) π οΈ | WebDev Studios: Maintainn Is Now SiteCare. SiteCare: SiteCare Acquires Maintainn. WP Minute: Interview with WebDev Studios CEO Brad Williams. | |
| July 15 | Daan Tol | WPLift.com πΈοΈ | The WP Minute: WPLift.com sells for $160k (Sold for $205k in 2016) The Matt Report: Why Daan Tol, new owner of WPLift, invested in a WordPress blog | |
| July 12 | The Events Calendar / StellarWP | WP Conference Schedule by Equalize Digital π | Equalize Digital Sells WP Conference Schedule Plugin to The Events Calendar | |
| July 4 | WP Forms | Pirate Forms π | ThemeIsle: Pirate Forms is now WP Forms WP Forms: WP Forms Has Acquired Pirate Forms | |
| June 28 | team.blue | Raidboxes π₯οΈ | Raidboxes becomes part of the team.blue family | |
| June 22 | Awesome Motive | WP Charitable π | Awesome Motive’s press release. WP Charitable’s press release. | |
| June 9 | Arryved | Craftpeak π | Brewbound: Arryved Acquires Craftpeak, Aims to Create βOmni-Channel Hospitality Platformβ GlobeNewswire News Room: Arryved, A Leading POS Company, Acquires Craftpeak, Integrating Online and On-Premise Hospitality Storefronts Pantheon: How Craftpeak Supports Over 150 Breweries With WordPress Multisite | |
| June 8 | Elementor | Strattic π₯οΈ | TechRadar: Elementorβs latest acquisition suggests WordPress users are in for a treat Strattic: Strattic acquired by Elementor! Elementor: Elementor Acquires Strattic To Redefine WordPress Hosting | |
| June 2 | WP Engine | Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace π | Delicious Brains’ announcement. WP Engine‘s announcement. | |
| May 25 | Groundhogg | Holler Box π | Groundhogg: Groundhogg Acquires HollerBox, A Powerful Popup & Lead Generation WordPress Plugin! | |
| May 3 | Memberium (now Membershipper) | WishList Member π | Memberium: Serendipity leads WishList Member Plugin to be acquired by co-founder of Memberium. WishList Member: Our Next Chapter. | |
| March 17 | Newfold Digital | YITH π π π€ | Newfold‘s press release: Clearlake and Siris-Backed Newfold Digital Expands E-commerce Solutions with the Acquisition of YITH. Nando Pappalardo on the YITH blog: Our dream continues: YITH joins Newfold Digital. | |
| March 11 | WPExperts | Password Protected π | WPExperts‘ press release. | |
| March 8 | Newfold Digital | Hostopia Australia a Deluxe company π₯οΈ | Newfold‘s press release: Newfold Digital Agrees to Acquire Deluxeβs Australia Web Hosting Operations. Seeking Alpha: Deluxe divests Australia web hosting business to Newfold Digital. Twin Cities Business: Deluxe to Sell Australia Operations to Newfold Digital for $23M Cloud7: Newfold Digital is acquiring Deluxe Australia hosting operations. | $23M |
| March 4 | WP Concern | WebFactory’s Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode Page π | WP Concern‘s blog post. Manesh Timilsina on Twitter. WebFactory on Twitter. | |
| February 28 | WPExperts | Post SMTP π | WPTavern: WPExperts Acquires Post SMTP Plugin | |
| February 24 | Strattic | WP2Static π | Strattic’s press release. | |
| February 21 | Cornershop Creative | Wired Impactβs Hosting, Maintenance, and Retainer Clients π₯ | Cornershop’s press release. | |
| February 21 | TrustedLogin | Dashboard Access & Support Me Plugins (From Drew Jaynes) π | Announcement in TrustedLogin | |
| February 9 | Rob Howard & Team | MasterWP βοΈ | Announcement in MasterWP. | |
| January 9 | WP Experts | Login Designer π | Rich Tabor‘s press release. | |
| January ? | Automattic | Clipisode π€ | Brian Alvey‘s posts about shutting down Clipisode and joining Automattic. | |
| 2021 (46) | ||||
| December 23 | WP Engine | Frost π¨ | Brian Gardner‘s press release for WP Engine. WP Tavern on the acquisition of Frost by WP Engine. | |
| November 15 | LiquidWeb | Modern Tribe π | Modern Tribe’s press release. | |
| November 11 | GoDaddy | Pagely π₯οΈ | Post Status’ post and interview with Josh Strebel. | |
| November 4 | Automattic / Jetpack | WPScan βοΈ | Jetpack’s press release. | |
| October 5 | Brainstorm Force | ProjectHuddle βοΈ | Brainstorm Force’s press release. | |
| September 22 | ThemeIsle | WP LandingKit π | ThemeIsle’s announcement. | |
| September 22 | Keanan Koppenhaver | Branch and WPPusher πβοΈ | Branch’s announcement and Keanan on Twitter. | |
| September 21 | Awesome Motive | Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service + additional free plugins. π | Awesome Motive’s announcement. Sandhills Development’s announcement. | |
| September 20 | LiquidWeb / StellarWP | LearnDash π | STellarWP: StellarWP Welcomes LearnDash to the Family | |
| September 17 | WooCommerce | SomewhereWarm π€π | WooCommerce’s announcement. | |
| September 13 | ProfilePress | Peter’s Login Redirect π | WordPress.org: “LoginWP (formerly Peter’s Login Redirect)” There is now a pro version, with a website managed by ProfilePress. Changelog: Version 3.0 mentions the acquisition and was released on 9/13. | |
| September 10 | WP WhiteSecurity | Advanced noCaptcha and Invisible Captcha π | WP WhiteSecurity’s announcement. | |
| September 8 | Jetpack | Social Image Generator π | Jetpack’s announcement. | |
| August 30 | Automattic | Frontity π€ | Frontity’s announcement. | |
| August 12 | Newfold Digital | Yoast π | Newfold‘s announcement and Joost’s blog post. | |
| August 9 | Honors WP / Easily Amused | 7 plugins for LearnDash from Immerseus π | Honors WP’s announcement. | |
| August 4 | Termly | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Management Plugin π | Termly’s announcement. | |
| July 27 | PublishPress π | Organize Series π | PublishPress‘s announcement about the donacquisition. | |
| July 26 | WP Desk | Asithemes π¨ | No press release. New owner information / Old owner information (Web Archive) | |
| July 24 | Lightspeed | Ecwid (Their WordPress plugin has 30,000 active installs. ππ) | San Diego Business Journal coverage. | $500M |
| July 20 | LionSher Technologies | PDF Embedder, Google Apps Login, Google Drive Embedder, Google Apps Directory, Google Profile Avatars, All-In-One Intranet (Lever Technologies) π | LionSher‘s announcement. | |
| July 16 | AuthLab / WP Manage Ninja π΅ | Crowdfundly π | Crowdfundly‘s announcement. FutureStartup: Crowdfundly and AuthLab Enter into Strategic Partnership, Eyes to Build a One-stop Digital Fundraising Solution | |
| July 16 | Automattic | Pocket Casts π± | 9to5Mac: Podcast app Pocket Casts acquired by WordPressβ€com owner Automattic WP.com: Popular podcast-app Pocket Casts Joins Automattic | |
| July 13 | SoftBank Vision Fund | Pantheon π₯οΈ | TechCrunch: WebOps platform Pantheon raises $100M from SoftBank Vision Fund | $100M |
| July 7 | Awesome Motive | SearchWP π | Syed Balkhi‘s announcement. | |
| July 1 | Mode Effect | Amplify Plugins π | Mode Effect‘s announcement. | |
| June 28 | Elijah and Trey Mills | Simple Feature Requests π | Simple Feature Requests’ announcement. | |
| June 22 | Infinite Uploads | Tuxedo Big File Uploads π | Infinite Uploads‘ announcement. | |
| June 17 | Extendify | EditorsKit π | Technically, this was an adoption not an acquisition. | |
| June 14 | Automattic | Day One π± | Techcrunch: WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One. | |
| June 8 | Liquid Web (Stellar WP) | IconicWP π | TechRadar: Liquid Web expands its WordPress offerings with IconicWP acquisition. | |
| June 8 | Awesome Motive | Plugin Rank πΈοΈ | Plugin Rank‘s announcement. | |
| June 2 | Delicious Brains | Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) π | ποΈ Post Status Draft #114: Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields. ποΈ Post Status Excerpt #12: Takeaways From The ACF Acquisition. | |
| May 27 | Howard Development & Consulting | Understrap π¨ | Howard Development & Consulting‘s announcement: Why we acquired Understrap. | |
| May 21 | Cory Miller | Post Status πΈοΈ | Cory Miller: Our Future Together at Post Status Brian Krogsgard: A New Era for Post Status ποΈPost Status Excerpt # 11: A New Era For Post Status | |
| May 11 | Liquid Web | GiveWP (Impress.org) π | ποΈPost Status Draft #113: Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell on GiveWPβs Acquisition by Liquid Web. | |
| May 6 | PublishPress | The Post Expirator Plugin π | PublishPress‘ announcement. | |
| April 20 | HKH Systems | Kanban for WordPress | Kanban for WordPress‘ announcement. WP Tavern: Alpha Particle and Flowspoke Acquire Kanban for WordPress for $15K. | $15,000 |
| April 12 | group.ONE | WP Media (WP Rocket, Imagify, and RocketCDN) πβοΈ | group.ONE‘s announcement. | |
| April 6 | iThemes | Kadence WP π¨ | iThemes‘ announcement. | |
| March 19 | PublishPress | Simple Tags | Steve Burge: Taking on a new WordPress plugin: TaxoPress | |
| March 16 | InMotion Hosting / Web Ventures | RamNode π₯οΈ | InMotion‘s press release. | |
| March 16 | Ionut Neagu | WP Cloudflare Page Cache π | Ionut‘s announcement. | |
| Feb 8 | Automattic | Parse.ly βοΈ | TechCrunch: Automattic Acquires Analytics Company Parse.ly. | |
| January 26 | WP Buffs | WP EZI | WP Buffs‘ announcement. WP EZI‘s announcement. Corporate acquisition of an agency. WPMRR. WP Tavern. | $50,000 |
| January 6 | Liquid Web | The Events Calendar (Modern Tribe) π | WP Tavern: Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar WordPress Plugin From Modern Tribe. | |
| 2020 (16) | ||||
| December 18 | Angry Creative | Pragmatic π€ | Post Status Notes: Pragmatic, a UK-based enterprise WordPress agency, has merged with Swedish company Angry Creative. Over the next few months, Pragmatic will become Angry Creative UK. | $100,000 |
| December 7 | Automattic | MailPoet π | WP Tavern: Automattic Acquires Mailpoet. Mailpoet’s announcement. | |
| November 29 | WP Developer | Disable Comments | WP Developer‘s announcement. | |
| November 5 | WPBeginner Growth Fund | Uncanny Owl (Automator) π | WP Beginner: Welcome Uncanny Owl and Automator Plugin to the WPBeginner Growth Fund | |
| October 6 | iThemes | WP Complete π | iThemes‘ announcement. | |
| September 21 | GoDaddy | SkyVerge π | Post Status: SkyVerge and GoDaddy Macrotrends: GoDaddy valued at nearly $3B (2019) | |
| September 1 | Liquid Web (iThemes) | Restrict Content Pro (Sandhills Development) π | Sandhills’ announcement. | Liquid Web valued at $229M (2019) |
| August 6 | PublishPress | Advanced Gutenberg ππ¨ | PublishPress acquired the Advanced Gutenberg plugin and theme. | |
| June 23 | WP Beginner | Smash Balloon π | WP Beginner: Welcome Smash Balloon to the WPBeginner Family of Products | |
| June 16 | Yoast | Duplicate Post π | Yoast‘s announcement. | |
| May 31 | WP Developer | EmbedPress (Steve Burge) π | EmbedPress announcement. | |
| May 23 | Automattic | ProsPress π | TechCrunch: Automattic acquires subscription payment company ProsPress | |
| April 21 | WP Engine | Block Lab π€π | Block Lab‘s announcement. | |
| April 1 | Watchful | XCloner πβοΈ | Watchful‘s announcement. ποΈ Watchful’s podcast with XCloner’s founder. | |
| February 29 | InMotion Hosting / Web Ventures | Sprout Invoices π | InMotion‘s press release. | |
| February 6 | Awesome Motive | All in One SEO π | ποΈPost Status Draft #100: Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motiveβs acquisition of All In One SEO. | |
| 2019 (15) | ||||
| December 30 | Web Ventures / InMotion Hosting | Elegant Marketplace | InMotion‘s press release. | |
| December 12 | WP Beginner Growth Accelerator π΅ | Rymera (WholeSale Suite) π | WP Beginner: Welcome Rymera and WholeSale Suite to WPBeginner Growth Fund. | |
| November 22 | BlogVault | WP Remote (maekit) βοΈ | Post Status Note. | |
| November 1 | BoldGrid | W3 Edge / W3 Total Cache π | WP Tavern: BoldGrid Joins Forces with W3 Edge, Acquires W3 Total Cache Plugin | |
| September 19 | Salesforce | Automattic πΈ | Post Status: Salesforce Ventures invests $300 million in Automattic, at a $3 billion valuation. TechCrunch: Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures and Salesforce Ventures Invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building CMS. | |
| September 16 | WP Desk | ShopMagic π | ShopMagic‘s announcement. | $5K |
| August 26 | Webfactory | WP Force SSL | Developer’s announcement. (Google Cache) | |
| August 16 | Automattic | ZBS CRM π | WP Tavern: Automattic Acquires Zero BS CRM, Considers Rebranding it as Jetpack CRM | |
| August 12 | Automattic | Tumblr πΈοΈ | The Verge: Interview with Matt Mullenweg. | $3M |
| June 24 | WP Engine | Flywheel π₯οΈ | TechCrunch: WordPress management site WP Engine acquires Flywheel as it moves to a $1B valuation and IPO. | |
| May 2019 | Pantheon | StagingPilot βοΈ | ||
| April 23 | Shareaholic | Yet Another Related Posts Pluginπ | Crunchbase | |
| April 9 | GoDaddy | Rich Tabor, CoBlocks, ThemeBeans π€π¨π | GoDaddy: GoDaddy welcomes Rich Tabor, CoBlocks, and ThemeBeans | |
| February 18 | PublishPress | Press Permit ππ€ | PublishPress acquired the Permit Press company and the Capability Enhanced Plugin, which was rebranded as PublishPress Capabilities. PublishPress’ announcement. | |
| January 9 | Elementor | Layers WP (Obox Themes) π¨ | ||
| 2018 | ||||
| November 6 | WP Beginner Growth Accelerator π΅ | CaseProof (PrettyLinks and MemberPress), Formidable Forms, SeedProd π | MemberPress: MemberPress has joined the WPBeginner Growth Accelerator | |
| October 29 | WP Engine | Atomic Blocks / Array Themesππ¨ | Mike McAlister‘s announcement. | |
| October 25 | WP Engine | Array Themes π¨ | WP Engine‘s announcement. WP Tavern: WP Engine Acquires Array Themes | |
| October 16 | Awesome Motive | SeedProd π | SeedProd: SeedProd is Now Part of the Awesome Motive Family | |
| October 1 | Sandhills Development | WP Simple Pay ππ€ | Founder Phil Derksen: Why I Merged My Profitable One Person Software Company with a Bigger Player. Matt Report: Why exiting solopreneurship is the right move. | Minority percentage stake in exchange for full ownership of plugin. |
| June 27 | WP Engine | StudioPress (Genesis theme framework) π¨ | WP Engine’s announcement. | |
| May 1 | Shareaholic | Similar Posts (Web Factory Ltd.) π | ||
| February 2018 | Liquid Web | iThemes π¨π | $3-10M | |
| January 2018 | UpdraftPlus | Easy Updates Manager π | ||
| 2018 | Automattic | Atavist πΈοΈ | ||
| 2018 | Envato | Placeit βοΈ | ||
| 2017 | ||||
| July 11, 2017 | 10up | Lift UX π€ | 10up: Operation LiftUp: Welcome Lift UX to 10up | |
| June 2017 | WP Forms | WP Mail SMTP | WPForms’ announcement. | |
| June 2017 | 9seeds | Web Savvy Marketing (Genesis) Theme Store π¨ π | ||
| June 2017 | Imagely | TeslaThemes π¨ | ||
| March 22, 2017 | GoDaddy | Sucuri βοΈ | Post Status: What you should know about the Sucuri acquisition deal by GoDaddy | |
| 2016 | ||||
| December 2016 | WP Site Care | WP Radius π οΈ | ||
| December 2016 | Podcast Motor | Seriously Simple Podcasting π | ||
| December 2016 | UpdraftPlus | WP-Optimize π | ||
| 2016 | GoDaddy | WP Curve βοΈπ οΈ | TechCrunch: GoDaddy buys WordPress services startup WP Curve | |
| September 2016 | GoDaddy | ManageWP βοΈ | ||
| 2015 | ||||
| October 2015 | Nikhil Vimal | Front End Registration and Login Forms π | ||
| September 2015 | Hummingbird Web Solutions | CyberChimps π | ||
| May 2015 | Automattic | WP Job Manager π | Post Status: Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley. $400-500K estimated annual revenue. | |
| May 2015 | Automattic | WooThemes+WooCommerce (Woo) π¨π | Post Status: Post-acquisition interview with WooThemes co-founder Mark Forrester and some followup notes. WP Tavern‘s original notice of the deal and ten-year anniversary post about the history of the Jigoshop fork that became WooCommerce. | ~$30M |
| February 2015 | Human Made | Sennza π€ | ||
| 2014 | ||||
| October 2014 | WebDevStudios | Maintainn π οΈ | ||
| August 2014 | Automattic | BruteProtect (Parka LLC) π | ||
| August 2014 | WP Site Care | Audit WP πΈοΈ | ||
| June 2014 | Crowd Favorite | Forty π€ | Post Status: Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency | |
| April 2014 | Awesome Motive | ThemeLab π¨ | ||
| March 19, 2014 | Autodesk | CreativeMarket π | TechCrunch: Autodesk Buys Creative Market… Update: CM became independent of AutoDesk in 2017. | |
| February 2014 | Yoast | WPForce.com πΈοΈ | WP Tavern: Joost de Valk Author Of The WordPress SEO Plugin Acquires WPForce.com. | |
| 2014 | Automattic | Longreads πΈοΈ | ||
| 2014 | Automattic | Scrollkit βοΈ | TechCrunch: Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT | |
| 2014 | Automattic | Code for the People π€ | TechCrunch: Automattic Buys UKβs Code For The People To Build Out Its WordPress VIP Enterprise Business | |
| 2013 | ||||
| December 2013 | 10up | Brainstorm Media π€ | ||
| September 25, 2013 | Automattic | Cloudup βοΈ | TechCrunch: Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing | |
| 2013 | Velomedia | Crowd Favorite π€ | Post Status: Crowd Favorite to be acquired by VeloMedia | |
| June 2013 | Pagely | Blogdroid.com π₯οΈ | ||
| 2013 | Automattic | Simperium (Simplenote) π± | Simplenote’s announcement. | |
| 2013 | Automattic | Poster π± | TechCrunch: Automattic Acquires iOS WordPress Client Poster To Improve Its Own Mobile Apps | |
| 2012 | ||||
| December 30, 2012 | Endurance International Group (EIG) | Mojoness Inc. (MojoThemes and MojoCode) ππ¨π | EIG’s announcement. | |
| 2012 | VaultPress (Automattic) | Code Garage βοΈ | WPDaily/Torque: VaultPress Acquires Code Garage | |
| 2011 | ||||
| 2010 | ||||
| June 25, 2010 | Automattic | Plinky βοΈ | TechCrunch: Automattic Buys Up Thing Labs’ Plinky To Help Bloggers Overcome Writer’s Block | |
| April 13 | Shareaholic | SexyBookmarks π | Shareaholic‘s announcement. | |
| 2009 | ||||
| 2009 | Automattic | Blo.gs βοΈ | VentureBeat: Blog company Automattic buys Blo.gs Matt: Yahoo! is transferring blo.gs to Automattic for safekeeping and further development. | |
| 2008 | ||||
| 2008 | Automattic | After the Deadline π | ||
| 2008 | Automattic | BuddyPress π | ||
| 2008 | Automattic | IntenseDebate βοΈ | ||
| 2008 | Automattic | PollDaddy βοΈ | ||
| 2007 | ||||
| 2007 | Automattic | Gravatar βοΈ |
