![]() ![]() So when you start developing something particularly big, expensive, and good and solving a problem, you want to charge money for it. It’s generally developers giving back to a community that they themselves have depended on for a variety of things. There’s not much direct money in open source. I’ve cherry-picked the above a bit to showcase what I arbitrarily believe are the most notable acquisitions, and Post Status attempts to maintain a full list. And that list becomes much smaller when you realize that Liquid Web, iThemes, and StellarWP are the same thing. You could write this off as a shuffling of ownership without any real impact, but take a close look at that list, and several names start popping up again and again. I shudder to think how much money Rocket Genius has turned down for Gravity Forms in the last 18 months. In the same period, Automattic (the for-profit business run by WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg) has acquired a number of non-WordPress products, including Tumblr, Frontity, MailPoet, Day One, Pocket Casts, and Parse.ly. That list becomes much smaller when you realize that Liquid Web, iThemes, and StellarWP are the same thing. I’d wager most folks making any kind of money providing WordPress development services are familiar with pretty much every plugin or organization up there that was acquired. November 4th, 2021 – Literally as I was writing this, Automattic acquired WPScan.September 22nd, 2021 – Awesome Motive acquires Sandhills Development, which includes AffiliateWP, Easy Digital Downloads, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service.September 20th, 2021 – StellarWP acquires LearnDash.September 17th, 2021 – Automattic acquires SomewhereWarm ( definitely not related to GoDaddy acquiring the other major WooCommerce extension developer or anything).August 12th, 2021 – Newfold Digital (⚠ Endurance International Group ⚠) acquires Yoast.July 7th, 2021 – Awesome Motive acquires SearchWP.June 1st, 2021 – Delicious Brains acquires Advanced Custom Fields Pro.May 11th, 2021 – Liquid Web acquires GiveWP.April 6th, 2021 – iThemes acquires Kadence WP.January 6th, 2021 – Liquid Web acquires The Events Calendar.December 4th, 2020 – Awesome Motive acquires Smash Balloon.September 14th, 2020 – GoDaddy acquires SkyVerge.February 6th, 2020 – Awesome Motive acquires All in One SEO.We’ve seen some – I’ll say it – concerning levels of consolidation happening. We don’t do a lot of LMS work over here at Sterner Stuff, so, you know, whatever.īut if you receive any kind of business-minded WordPress newsletter or are otherwise plugged into “the business of WordPress”, you might have noticed that acquisitions are happening quickly and furiously in the WordPress space. In September’s WordPress plugin acquisition news, StellarWP acquired LearnDash, the de facto learning management system plugin for WordPress. ![]()
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