Browsing: Mark Forrester

WordPress acquires SA’s WooCommerce

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has acquired South African-founded WordPress theme development and e-commerce enablement businesses WooThemes and WooCommerce. The deal is all about WooCommerce – a popular plug-on for

Adii Pienaar, SA’s WordPress pioneer

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Any South African developer who has dabbled with WordPress is probably familiar with WooThemes or its spin-off product for e-commerce websites, WooCommerce, the companies Adii Pienaar co-founded with Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester. For Pienaar, life in a tech start-up started