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2016

A year in review:
Things done in twenty sixteen
To empower you.*

*We love haiku. You, too? Tweet us yours.

Howdy! We're the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and a bunch of other products for WordPress.

We are passionate about making the web a better place. We don't build software for free –– we build it for freedom. Our goal is to democratize publishing and commerce so that anyone with a story or idea can share it with the world regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or location.

We believe in open source and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. We also contribute to a number of non-profit and open source projects, like WordPress.org, BuddyPress, the P2 theme, and WordPress for Android and iOS.

Learn more about Automattic, or say hello to us @automattic

From its earliest days into the present, WordPress.com stands for community and innovation. WordPress.com is about building an online home to tell your story, showcase your business, and connect with the world –– with the freedom to own your data on the web.

Learn more about WordPress.com, or say hello to us @wordpressdotcom.

Small businesses make the world go round. This year WooCommerce empowered 530,000 more store builders to ship their ideas, with a total of over 1.5M active stores worldwide now powered by Woo.

This year brought some exciting changes to WooCommerce, including building our API on top of the WordPress REST API, adding shipping zones, and improving the My Account screen. 2017 is set to be an exciting year, with a focus on making setup and scaling easier across the globe.

Learn more about WooCommerce, or say hello to us @WooCommerce

Jetpack is a free plugin for WordPress that brings all the best of WordPress.com to self-hosted sites, making them cheaper and easier to run. From traffic insights and protection from attacks to backups and speedy content delivery –– Jetpack has you covered. Jetpack is in active open source development, supported by a growing team and an engaged community.

We also offer premium Jetpack subscription options for a more robust solution for your mission-critical online presence.

Learn more about Jetpack, or say hello to us @Jetpack

Our WordPress.com VIP service supports some of the planet's highest-traffic and highest-profile users of WordPress, in areas as diverse as celebrity gossip, election forecasting, and international relations.

We're proud to help large enterprise publishers take full advantage of the world's preferred content management solution, and of a global infrastructure which blew one analyst's test rig "out of the water." Their success is our success.

Learn more about VIP, or say hello to us @WordPressVIP

None of this would be possible without the open source project, WordPress. Everything we do begins, ends, and lives in WordPress. WordPress now powers over 27% of the web, and has one of the largest contributor communities in the world.

Learn more about WordPress.org, or say hello @WordPress

We're constantly learning from our users and each other about how we can improve our products and make the web a better place. Our community holds us accountable to our purpose and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thank you.

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