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Date | Acquiring / Investing | Acquired / Invested In | Media / Press Releases | $ |
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2022 (1) | ||||
January 9 | WP Experts | Login Designer 🔌 | Rich Tabor‘s press release. | |
2021 (45) | ||||
December 23 | WP Engine | Frost 🎨 | Brian Gardner‘s press release for WP Engine. WP Tavern on the acquisition of Frost by WP Engine. | |
November 15 | LiquidWeb | Modern Tribe 🔌 | Modern Tribe's press release. | |
November 11 | GoDaddy | Pagely 🖥️ | Post Status' post and interview with Josh Strebel. | |
November 4 | Automattic / Jetpack | WPScan ⚙️ | Jetpack's press release. | |
October 5 | Brainstorm Force | ProjectHuddle ⚙️ | Brainstorm Force's press release. | |
September 22 | ThemeIsle | WP LandingKit 🔌 | ThemeIsle's announcement. | |
September 22 | Keanan Koppenhaver | Branch and WPPusher 🔌⚙️ | 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. 🔌 | Awesome Motive's announcement. Sandhills Development's announcement. | |
September 20 | LiquidWeb / StellarWP | LearnDash 🔌 | STellarWP: StellarWP Welcomes LearnDash to the Family | |
September 17 | WooCommerce | SomewhereWarm 🤝🔌 | WooCommerce's announcement. | |
September 13 | ProfilePress | Peter's Login Redirect 🔌 | 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 🔌 | WP WhiteSecurity's announcement. | |
September 8 | Jetpack | Social Image Generator 🔌 | Jetpack's announcement. | |
August 30 | Automattic | Frontity 🤝 | Frontity's announcement. | |
August 12 | Newfold Digital | Yoast 🔌 | Newfold‘s announcement and Joost's blog post. | |
August 9 | Honors WP / Easily Amused | 7 plugins for LearnDash from Immerseus 🔌 | Honors WP's announcement. | |
August 4 | Termly | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Management Plugin 🔌 | Termly's announcement. | |
July 27 | PublishPress 🎁 | Organize Series 🔌 | PublishPress‘s announcement about the donacquisition. | |
July 26 | WP Desk | Asithemes 🎨 | No press release. New owner information / Old owner information (Web Archive) | |
July 24 | Lightspeed | Ecwid (Their WordPress plugin has 30,000 active installs. 🛒🔌) | 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) 🔌 | LionSher‘s announcement. | |
July 16 | AuthLab / WP Manage Ninja 💵 | Crowdfundly 🛒 | 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 📱 | 9to5Mac: Podcast app Pocket Casts acquired by WordPress․com owner Automattic WP.com: Popular podcast-app Pocket Casts Joins Automattic | |
July 13 | SoftBank Vision Fund | Pantheon 🖥️ | TechCrunch: WebOps platform Pantheon raises $100M from SoftBank Vision Fund | $100M |
July 7 | Awesome Motive | SearchWP 🔌 | Syed Balkhi‘s announcement. | |
July 1 | Mode Effect | Amplify Plugins 🔌 | Mode Effect‘s announcement. | |
June 28 | Elijah and Trey Mills | Simple Feature Requests 🔌 | Simple Feature Requests' announcement. | |
June 22 | Infinite Uploads | Tuxedo Big File Uploads 🔌 | Infinite Uploads‘ announcement. | |
June 17 | Extendify | EditorsKit 🔌 | Technically, this was an adoption not an acquisition. | |
June 14 | Automattic | Day One 📱 | Techcrunch: WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One. | |
June 8 | Liquid Web (Stellar WP) | IconicWP 🔌 | TechRadar: Liquid Web expands its WordPress offerings with IconicWP acquisition. | |
June 8 | Awesome Motive | Plugin Rank 🕸️ | Plugin Rank‘s announcement. | |
June 2 | Delicious Brains | Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) 🔌 | 🎙️ Post Status Draft #114: Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields. 🎙️ Post Status Excerpt #12: Takeaways From The ACF Acquisition. | |
May 27 | Howard Development & Consulting | Understrap 🎨 | Howard Development & Consulting‘s announcement: Why we acquired Understrap. | |
May 21 | Cory Miller | Post Status 🕸️ | Cory Miller: Our Future Together at Post Status Brian Krogsgard: A New Era for Post Status 🎙️Post Status Excerpt # 11: A New Era For Post Status | |
May 11 | Liquid Web | GiveWP (Impress.org) 🔌 | 🎙️Post Status Draft #113: Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell on GiveWP’s Acquisition by Liquid Web. | |
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) 🔌⚙️ | group.ONE‘s announcement. | |
April 6 | iThemes | Kadence WP 🎨 | iThemes‘ announcement. | |
March 19 | PublishPress | Simple Tags | Steve Burge: Taking on a new WordPress plugin: TaxoPress | |
March 16 | InMotion Hosting / Web Ventures | RamNode 🖥️ | InMotion‘s press release. | |
March 16 | Ionut Neagu | WP Cloudflare Page Cache 🔌 | Ionut‘s announcement. | |
Feb 8 | Automattic | Parse.ly ⚙️ | 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) 🔌 | WP Tavern: Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar WordPress Plugin From Modern Tribe. | |
2020 (1 | ||||
December 18 | Angry Creative | Pragmatic 🤝 | 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 🔌 | 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) 🔌 | WP Beginner: Welcome Uncanny Owl and Automator Plugin to the WPBeginner Growth Fund | |
October 6 | iThemes | WP Complete 🔌 | iThemes‘ announcement. | |
September 21 | GoDaddy | SkyVerge 🔌 | Post Status: SkyVerge and GoDaddy Macrotrends: GoDaddy valued at nearly $3B (2019) | |
September 1 | Liquid Web (iThemes) | Restrict Content Pro (Sandhills Development) 🔌 | Sandhills' announcement. | Liquid Web valued at $229M (2019) |
June 23 | WP Beginner | Smash Balloon 🔌 | WP Beginner: Welcome Smash Balloon to the WPBeginner Family of Products | |
June 16 | Yoast | Duplicate Post 🔌 | Yoast‘s announcement. | |
May 31 | WP Developer | EmbedPress (Steve Burge) 🔌 | EmbedPress announcement. | |
May 23 | Automattic | ProsPress 🔌 | TechCrunch: Automattic acquires subscription payment company ProsPress | |
April 21 | WP Engine | Block Lab 🤝🔌 | Block Lab‘s announcement. | |
April 1 | Watchful | XCloner 🔌⚙️ | Watchful‘s announcement. 🎙️ Watchful's podcast with XCloner's founder. | |
February 29 | InMotion Hosting / Web Ventures | Sprout Invoices 🔌 | InMotion‘s press release. | |
February 6 | Awesome Motive | All in One SEO 🔌 | 🎙️Post Status Draft #100: Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motive’s acquisition of All In One SEO. | |
2019 | ||||
December 30 | Web Ventures / InMotion Hosting | Elegant Marketplace | InMotion‘s press release. | |
December 12 | WP Beginner Growth Accelerator 💵 | Rymera (WholeSale Suite) 🔌 | WP Beginner: Welcome Rymera and WholeSale Suite to WPBeginner Growth Fund. | |
November 22 | BlogVault | WP Remote (maekit) ⚙️ | Post Status Note. | |
November 1 | BoldGrid | W3 Edge / W3 Total Cache 🔌 | WP Tavern: BoldGrid Joins Forces with W3 Edge, Acquires W3 Total Cache Plugin | |
September 19 | Salesforce | Automattic 💸 | 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 🔌 | ShopMagic‘s announcement. | $5K |
August 26 | Webfactory | WP Force SSL | Developer's announcement. (Google Cache) | |
August 16 | Automattic | ZBS CRM 🔌 | WP Tavern: Automattic Acquires Zero BS CRM, Considers Rebranding it as Jetpack CRM | |
August 12 | Automattic | Tumblr 🕸️ | The Verge: Interview with Matt Mullenweg. | $3M |
June 24 | WP Engine | Flywheel 🖥️ | TechCrunch: WordPress management site WP Engine acquires Flywheel as it moves to a $1B valuation and IPO. | |
May 2019 | Pantheon | StagingPilot ⚙️ | ||
April 23 | Shareaholic | Yet Another Related Posts Plugin🔌 | Crunchbase | |
April 9 | GoDaddy | Rich Tabor, CoBlocks, ThemeBeans 🤝🎨🔌 | GoDaddy: GoDaddy welcomes Rich Tabor, CoBlocks, and ThemeBeans | |
January 9 | Elementor | Layers WP (Obox Themes) 🎨 | ||
2018 | ||||
November 6 | WP Beginner Growth Accelerator 💵 | CaseProof (PrettyLinks and MemberPress), Formidable Forms, SeedProd 🔌 | MemberPress: MemberPress has joined the WPBeginner Growth Accelerator | |
October 29 | WP Engine | Atomic Blocks / Array Themes🔌🎨 | Mike McAlister‘s announcement. | |
October 25 | WP Engine | Array Themes 🎨 | WP Engine‘s announcement. WP Tavern: WP Engine Acquires Array Themes | |
October 16 | Awesome Motive | SeedProd 🔌 | SeedProd: SeedProd is Now Part of the Awesome Motive Family | |
October 1 | Sandhills Development | WP Simple Pay 🔌🤝 | 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) 🎨 | WP Engine's announcement. | |
May 1 | Shareaholic | Similar Posts (Web Factory Ltd.) 🔌 | ||
February 2018 | Liquid Web | iThemes 🎨🔌 | $3-10M | |
January 2018 | UpdraftPlus | Easy Updates Manager 🔌 | ||
2018 | Automattic | Atavist 🕸️ | ||
2018 | Envato | Placeit ⚙️ | ||
2017 | ||||
July 11, 2017 | 10up | Lift UX 🤝 | 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 🎨 🛒 | ||
June 2017 | Imagely | TeslaThemes 🎨 | ||
March 22, 2017 | GoDaddy | Sucuri ⚙️ | Post Status: What you should know about the Sucuri acquisition deal by GoDaddy | |
2016 | ||||
December 2016 | WP Site Care | WP Radius 🛠️ | ||
December 2016 | Podcast Motor | Seriously Simple Podcasting 🔌 | ||
December 2016 | UpdraftPlus | WP-Optimize 🔌 | ||
2016 | GoDaddy | WP Curve ⚙️ | TechCrunch: GoDaddy buys WordPress services startup WP Curve | |
September 2016 | GoDaddy | ManageWP ⚙️ | ||
2015 | ||||
October 2015 | Nikhil Vimal | Front End Registration and Login Forms 🔌 | ||
September 2015 | Hummingbird Web Solutions | CyberChimps 🔌 | ||
May 2015 | Automattic | WP Job Manager 🔌 | Post Status: Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley. $400-500K estimated annual revenue. | |
May 2015 | Automattic | WooThemes+WooCommerce (Woo) 🎨🔌 | 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 🤝 | ||
2014 | ||||
October 2014 | WebDevStudios | Maintainn 🛠️ | ||
August 2014 | Automattic | BruteProtect (Parka LLC) 🔌 | ||
August 2014 | WP Site Care | Audit WP 🕸️ | ||
June 2014 | Crowd Favorite | Forty 🤝 | Post Status: Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency | |
April 2014 | Awesome Motive | ThemeLab 🎨 | ||
March 19, 2014 | Autodesk | CreativeMarket 🛒 | TechCrunch: Autodesk Buys Creative Market… Update: CM became independent of AutoDesk in 2017. | |
February 2014 | Yoast | WPForce.com 🕸️ | WP Tavern: Joost de Valk Author Of The WordPress SEO Plugin Acquires WPForce.com. | |
2014 | Automattic | Longreads 🕸️ | ||
2014 | Automattic | Scrollkit ⚙️ | TechCrunch: Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT | |
2014 | Automattic | Code for the People 🤝 | TechCrunch: Automattic Buys UK’s Code For The People To Build Out Its WordPress VIP Enterprise Business | |
2013 | ||||
December 2013 | 10up | Brainstorm Media 🤝 | ||
September 25, 2013 | Automattic | Cloudup ⚙️ | TechCrunch: Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing | |
2013 | Velomedia | Crowd Favorite 🤝 | Post Status: Crowd Favorite to be acquired by VeloMedia | |
June 2013 | Pagely | Blogdroid.com 🖥️ | ||
2013 | Automattic | Simperium (Simplenote) 📱 | Simplenote's announcement. | |
2013 | Automattic | Poster 📱 | 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) 🛒🎨🔌 | EIG's announcement. | |
2012 | VaultPress (Automattic) | Code Garage ⚙️ | WPDaily/Torque: VaultPress Acquires Code Garage | |
2011 | ||||
2010 | ||||
June 25, 2010 | Automattic | Plinky ⚙️ | TechCrunch: Automattic Buys Up Thing Labs' Plinky To Help Bloggers Overcome Writer's Block | |
April 13 | Shareaholic | SexyBookmarks 🔌 | Shareaholic‘s announcement. | |
2009 | ||||
2009 | Automattic | Blo.gs ⚙️ | 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 🔌 | ||
2008 | Automattic | BuddyPress 🔌 | ||
2008 | Automattic | IntenseDebate ⚙️ | ||
2008 | Automattic | PollDaddy ⚙️ | ||
2007 | ||||
2007 | Automattic | Gravatar ⚙️ |