WooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source, self-hosted app in the E-commerce category, licensed GPL-2.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Shopify. It has 10,568 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 10,568
- Forks
- 10,665
- Open issues
- 1,016
- Commits, last 12 months
- 4,293
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 11.2.1Oct 9, 2026
- Created
- Aug 9, 2011
- License
- GPL-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 4,293 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases5 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors11 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 4,293 |
| Latest release | 11.2.1 (Oct 9, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 5 |
| Releases, all time | 666 |
| Open issues | 1,016 |
| Open pull requests | 393 |
| Good first issues | 11 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 9, 2011 |
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About WooCommerce
WordPress based e-commerce solution.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce.
Topics
- woocommerce
- wordpress
- php
- automattic
- ecommerce
- ecommerce-platform
- hacktoberfest
- reactjs
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Is WooCommerce free and open source?
Yes. WooCommerce is open-source software released under the GPL-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run WooCommerce with Docker?
WooCommerce does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (PHP), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to WooCommerce?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to WooCommerce include MedusaJs, Bagisto and Saleor. WooCommerce itself is a self-hosted alternative to Shopify.
Is WooCommerce actively maintained?
The most recent commit to WooCommerce was on Oct 26, 2026 with 4,293 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 11.2.1, published Oct 9, 2026. It had 1,016 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.