# Mike Jolley (slim)

> Mike Jolley is co-creator of WooCommerce. WooCommerce API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-creator of WooCommerce.

Mike Jolley was a developer at Jigowatt when WordPress theme maker WooThemes hired him and James Koster to work on a fork of Jigoshop.

## What Mike builds

- [WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.md), graded BB, 73/100, in Commerce & checkout. Open-source commerce plugin for WordPress that you host yourself. Co-creator of WooCommerce, founder, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [James Koster](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/james-koster/), Co-creator of WooCommerce
- [Matt Mullenweg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-mullenweg/), Founder, Automattic

## Questions

### Who is Mike Jolley?

Mike Jolley was a developer at Jigowatt when WordPress theme maker WooThemes hired him and James Koster to work on a fork of Jigoshop.

### What does WooCommerce (Automattic) make?

Anchor Terminal lists WooCommerce API + MCP from WooCommerce (Automattic).

### How are Mike's tools graded?

WooCommerce API + MCP is graded BB, 73 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://woocommerce.com/
- https://woocommerce.com/about/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WooCommerce
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mullenweg
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automattic

These 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.