2023 Winners
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What is this? The Seshies are a community awards ceremony to recognize and celebrate the best-of-the-best throughout the WooCommerce ecosystem. Below are the winners, nominees, and honorable mentions from 2023.
Advocate of the Year
Awarded in recognition of an individual or organization that has invested in fostering the WooCommerce community. This could be through educational content, hosting meetups, or contributing to public discussions in service of others.
Do the Woo is a podcast network at the forefront of supporting the WooCommerce community. They produce written and audio content aimed at helping everyone in the community get the most out of WooCommerce and become more involved themselves.
Visit WinnerKathy is a reformed civil engineer turned web developer and, for a second career, is an international handball athlete. When she's not actively developing and supporting her own extensions, Kathy can regularly be found helping others in the WooCommerce Community Slack.
Visit NomineeMichelle is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP and the Director of Community Relations for Post Status. She loves to help people get hired and find their own calling within the community. In fact, she does so much that it is challenging to her different contributions.
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Edith is a huge advocate of WooCommerce in the Codeable expert community. She has worked on a lot of internal documentation to share knowledge and is a huge help educating other developers on the platform.
View Runner-upKatie is the CEO of Barn2, a co-host of WP Product Talk, and host of BizChat on Do the Woo. She is a natural leader who is always working within the community to uplift others and share her skills.
View Runner-upDeveloper of the Year
Awarded to an individual developer (or a developer within an organization) who has contributed significantly to either a specific WooCommerce project or the community.
To anyone who knows their history, Mike is one of the original core contributors to WooCommerce. It's impossible to overstate just how instrumental his work has been for the platform and how much he's contributed to all of our collective successes.
Visit NomineeFounder of Iconic, James has a proven track record of building innovative WooCommerce plugins and supporting the community more widely, including contributing to the core codebase and sharing his WooCommerce experience with other community members.
Visit WinnerUros is a dedicated, experienced WooCommerce developer with Maksimer. His coworkers praise the perspective and value he brings to every project. If that weren't already enough, he also volunteers as an organizer for local WordCamps.
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Alex is theme developer with a keen eye for design who has released two beautiful block themes in the past year. Even more impressive is how he constantly helps others in the WooCommerce Community group on Facebook. If you ever ask a question, odds are pretty good Alex will be there to help.
View Runner-upFredrik is a tech lead at Maksimer. He has an interdisciplinary background that includes design and development and his specialty is crafting complex, custom WooCommerce stores and integrations. Numerous teammates saw fit to nominate Fredrik and celebrate his contributions.
View Runner-upExtension of the Year
This award goes to the plugin that has added the most value to WooCommerce stores, either by introducing new features, improving efficiency, or enhancing user experience. The plugin should be reliable, well-coded, and easy to use.
Released in 2023, this extension brings a new approach to product add-ons and configuration. Store owners have more flexibility than ever before and can ship eye-catching product inputs with clickable images, customer file uploads, conditional logic, dynamic pricing, and more!
Visit WinnerThe Pixel Manager for WooCommerce boasts being the most accurate tracking code manager. It offers unique features like automatic conversion recovery and a Tracking Accuracy Report to help correct the many problems introduced by traditional pixel tracking tools.
Visit NomineeTikTok launched support for native checkout this year. Now Woo store owners can use the TikTok-developed extension to automatically sync their Woo stores to TikTok to create product-based ads, live sales events, and enable Shop within available geographies (currently US and UK).
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ProductX introduces several useful blocks and block patterns for WooCommerce stores. It's very useful for building searchable, filterable, and sortable product listings, grids, and sliders.
View Runner-upAnother fantastic plugin for creating customizable products. This extension introduces 16 different input types to allow customers to configure a product and allows for HTML, shortcodes, and additional images.
View Runner-upAgency of the Year
Awarded in recognition of a firm who delivers excellent digital experiences with an emphasis on client satisfaction and overall innovation.
Saucal delivers top-tier digital experiences. They take a client-centric approach to every project, ensuring businesses are always informed and satisfied. Their blend of innovation, transparency, and deep WooCommerce expertise makes Saucal a standout agency and incredible partner.
Visit NomineeMaksimer is an agency with 70+ team members distributed throughout Europe who handle complex WooCommerce deliveries world-wide. They assist in everything from small businesses, to more demanding projects in banking/finance, and even the highly-regulated public sector.
Visit WinnerFounded in 2006, Inpsyde is now one of the largest and most capable agencies in the world specializing in WordPress and WooCommerce. They are rightfully proud of their team and projects that allow them to reinvent WordPress and WooCommerce for enterprise customers all around the world.
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Zao partners with organizations and online retailers to solve head-scratching technical problems. They build delightful digital experiences for boundary-pushers who refuse to compromise on their vision and need a capable development partner as ambitious as themselves.
View Runner-upBeyond the great work they do, it's easy to admire how Atomic Smash shows up with authenticity in the community and across social networks. Atomic Smash makes the human element visible, and that is a powerful tool for any technology or service provider.
View Runner-upStore of the Year
Awarded for delivering best-in-class experiences to customers through exceptional performance, design, and innovative use of technologies with WooCommerce.
This is a customized WooCommerce store of the highest order. From its highly configurable products and specialized subscription features, to custom admin interfaces and reports, no stone was left unturned in their quest for great experiences. Today, Universal Yums joyfully delivers delicious snacks to fans located around the world.
Visit NomineeWho doesn't love Chia pets? This store bosts an incredible design aesthetic that is fun to browse. You'll find scroll animations, page transitions, and hover-effects galore throughout this site. Take a moment to admire the add to cart buttons and single product pages (and leave the site open in the background for a fun easter egg)!
Visit NomineeBarn2 are well-known for building high quality WooCommerce extensions, backed up by industry-leading support. All of their products are well-researched and thoughtfully designed, and their site features loads of live WooCommerce demos demonstrating that fact.
Visit Winner🏅 Honorable Mentions
This beautiful site relaunched in July 2023 with an inspiring mission: use food as a tool to tell stories about where we come from and the cultures that inspire us. Ghetto Gastro has generated excitement by merging the cooking traditions of black, brown, and Asian folks in a high-quality, healthy fashion.
View Runner-upThis site has so many little features: search filters, fun buttons and illustrations, shipping to multiple addresses, and prices shown with or without tax. Even the account area is custom! Customers can ask for estimates, create sub-account users, and more. And all delivered with Betty & Albert's fantastic style and flair.
View Runner-upInnovation Award
Awarded for using WooCommerce in a truly unique and groundbreaking way, whether that's through integrations, customizations, or novel business models, and in a way that empowers customers and drives innovation.
SimpleDose is an online pharmacy and medication management service based in Australia. They simplify their customer's lives by sorting and packing their medications by date and time and delivering them directly to their doorstep, every month. A custom onboarding form helps customers get started in a clear, straight-forward fashion.
Visit WinnerWith wildcloud, anyone can deploy a robust, scalable, and easy-to-manage web platform and start earning recurring revenue. Want to sell WooCommerce sites that clients design and manage themselves? How about self-managed marketing sites for local restaurants? Take a look at how wildcloud makes this process easier than ever.
Visit NomineeUnsatisfied with the state of mattress sales in Latin America, a small team set out to change everything. They launched a WooCommerce store and developed custom integrations for shipping, payments, inventory management, and more. The result is a highly personalized experience that is better, faster, and less expensive than everything else.
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TruPatch specializes in adhesive patches for detecting various substances. It was paramount to deliver an experience that balanced the sensitivity of the product with the needs of its customers. This lead to a visually appealing store that is both user-friendly and discrete.
View Runner-upThis shop offers a unique and personal product: beautifully designed posters that blend newborn features with your favorite football club. Born Supporter lets customers create unique posters and with live, visual feedback as all the details come together.
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