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  "markdown": "Co-creator of WooCommerce.\n\nJames Koster was a developer at Jigowatt when WordPress theme maker WooThemes hired him and Mike Jolley to work on a fork of Jigoshop. That fork became WooCommerce, launched in September 2011.\n\n## What James builds\n\n- [WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.md), graded BB, 73/100, in Commerce \u0026 checkout. Open-source commerce plugin for WordPress that you host yourself. Co-creator of WooCommerce, founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Matt Mullenweg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-mullenweg/), Founder, Automattic\n- [Mike Jolley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-jolley/), Co-creator of WooCommerce\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is James Koster?\n\nJames Koster was a developer at Jigowatt when WordPress theme maker WooThemes hired him and Mike Jolley to work on a fork of Jigoshop. That fork became WooCommerce, launched in September 2011.\n\n### What does WooCommerce (Automattic) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists WooCommerce API + MCP from WooCommerce (Automattic). Open-source commerce plugin for WordPress that you host yourself.\n\n### How are James's tools graded?\n\nWooCommerce API + MCP is graded BB, 73 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://woocommerce.com/\n- https://woocommerce.com/about/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WooCommerce\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mullenweg\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automattic\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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