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The Role of WordPress Ecommerce in the Coming Content and Commerce Era

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WP-eCommerce is the only plugin that converted as opposed to simply giving up and going away. Throughout 2010 and into 2011, a wide variety of people and companies tried their hand at ecommerce in WordPress, and none were great. 2011: WooCommerce is Born. In 2011, WooThemes tried to buy Jigoshop.

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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

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Ecommerce Timeline: Year Major Ecommerce Event. 1969 The first major ecommerce company, CompuServe, is founded. 1982 Boston Computer Exchange launches as one of the first ecommerce platforms. 2011 Google Wallet launches as an online payment system. 2011 Stripe launches. 2011 – Stripe launches.

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