WordPress is growing faster as the years go by even amidst the myriads of CMS competitors that are rising fast. As WordPress grows, companies that are dedicated to WordPress are also increasing. These companies deal with various aspects of WordPress including:
- Open Source Contribution/Foundation
- Plugin Development
- Theme Development
This list of WordPress companies does not include all the companies that function in any of the categories I mentioned above. So it is not a comprehensive list of WordPress companies. There are several individuals that have contributed massively to the development of WordPress whom I respect so much, however, this focuses on companies and not individual contributors. Some other parameters are also applied in selecting these companies. See the criteria below:
- All listings are companies, not individual brands.
- Each company has a functional website that is accessible at the time of this writing. Most companies have an about us page, a contact us page and a career page.
- All the companies have at least one plugin on the WordPress repository. The plugins are updated and are fully supported on the WordPress repository.
- Their plugins have a minimum of 100, 000 active installations at the time of this writing.
After reading this, if you find a company that meets these criteria and I omitted it, please let me know in the comment box and I will be happy to add it to this list. Note that some companies that meet this criteria but have little or no information about their businesses are omitted.
If you are a WordPress Developer, a WordPress Expert or a WordPress Enthusiast, this list also functions as a resource with which you can get a job. Most of the companies listed here have a career page and they are always looking for more creative minds to join them. You can check through their websites to see their current openings.
Please note that all the numbers presented in this post are accurate as of the date this post was published.
Let’s get right into the list.
1. Automattic
Automattic is a core WordPress company founded by Matt Mullenweg who also co-founded WordPress.org together with Mike Little in 2003. While WordPress is open source and fully dependent on volunteer contributions and organisations like the WordPress foundation, Automattic is set up to make money company. It is worthy of note that the WordPress Foundation was also founded by Matt Mullenweg as a charitable organization to further the mission of the WordPress open source project and to keep it essentially free. Automattic on the other hand makes a profit from different products. WordPress.com is owned by Automattic. Plugins developed by Automattic include Jetpack, Akismet, VaultPress, Crowdsignal, Layout Grid Block etc. You can click here to view all their plugins and themes.
2. Yoast
Yoast is the company behind the popular Yoast SEO plugin. Yoast currently has 5 million active installations, and it has 25,801 5-star ratings. Yoast was founded by Joost de Valk an internet entrepreneur with a background in SEO, digital marketing, and web development.
Yoast was founded by Joost de Valk in 2010.
3. Elementor
Elementor is arguably the most popular and versatile pagebuilder at the moment. On the WordPress repository, the free version of Elementor – ‘Elementor Website Builder‘ has more than 5 million active installations. Elementor makes it easy for everyone to build pages with or without coding abilities. There are several plugins built by other companies that are used to extend the functionalities of Elementor.
4. Awesome Motive
Awesome Motive started as just a free WordPress resource site in 2009 but it has grown into an authority company owning more than 10 popular WordPress plugins. Some of them were built by the Awesome Motive team led by Syed Balkhi, the rest of the plugins were either acquired as a result of a merger with another company or bought from the creators. Some of the plugins owned by Awesome Motive include OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, WP Mail SMTP, ExactMetrics, SeedProd, TrustPulse, RafflePress, All in One SEO, Smash Balloon, PushEngage, Plugin Rank, SearchWP, Easy Digital Downloads, Affiliate WP, WP Simple Pay, Sugar Calendar, and more.
5. Really Simple Plugins
Really Simple Plugins provided the WordPress community with the Really Simple SSL plugin that helps in fixing mixed content errors. They are also the owners of Complianz – a Privacy Suite for WordPress, that helps WordPress websites to comply with international privacy legislation. Burst Statistics is also one of their plugins, but the most popular one is Really Simple SSL with more than 5 million installations.
Rogier Lankhorst is the founder of Really Simple Plugins.
6. Defiant Inc.
Wordfence is a WordPress security company that provides some amazing services for free. Wordfence is incorporated as Defiant Inc in Delaware and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Millions of WordPress users protect their websites with the Wordfence plugin which currently has more than 4 million installations. Apart from securing websites, Wordfence also publish threat research related to WordPress. They notify users of new security breaches in plugins and themes and advise them on what to do. The company was founded by Mark Maunder and Kerry Boyte.
7. Updraft WP Software Ltd
Updraft is a WordPress plugin that helps with backing up and restoring websites. This plugin has helped many website owners restore their sites after it was hacked or they commit an error that misconfigures the entire site. Updraft WP Software is registered in the United Kingdom and it has been serving the WordPress ecosystem since August 2011. The plugin currently has more than 3 million active installations.
8. Delicious Brains Inc.
Have you ever heard of Advanced Custom Fields? It’s a plugin that helps you add more fields to the default ones you have in WordPress. With this plugin, you can create a job board website without using a special job theme. It extends the functions of WordPress. Delicious Brains Inc, is the brain behind the plugin and other plugins like WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, and WP Offload SES.
9. Snap Creek
With over 25 million downloads Duplicator successfully gives WordPress users the ability to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another and also serves as a simple backup utility. Duplicator handles serialized and base64 serialized replacements. Standard WordPress migration and WordPress backups are easily handled by this plugin as are zero downtime migrations. The plugin currently has 1 million + active installations.
Snap Creek, the company that owns this plugin was founded by Bob Riley and Cory Lamle in 2015.
10. Incsub, LLC
This is the company behind the WordPress projects WPMU DEV, CampusPress and Edublogs. Their plugins are largely used across many WordPress websites. WPMU DEV is used for site management and hosting. Campuspress and Edublogs are both educational systems that can be used by schools and online tutors.
Incsub has also developed some free plugins that are available on the WordPress repository. One of the plugins is ‘Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images‘ which has more than 1 million active installations.
Incsub was founded in 2007 with its headquarters in Birmingham, United States.
11. WPDeveloper
Powering up 3 Million+ Websites, this company has positively contributed to the WordPress community. 2 of their popular plugins are Essential Addons and Templately. Essential Addons is a plugin that adds more elements and functions to the Elementor pagebuilder. It is loaded with so many elements that are needed to create beautiful pages with Elementor. Templately provides ready templates cloud for WordPress. It offers 2,000+ pre-designed template collections to revamp any Elementor site design without coding.
Other plugins they have developed include NotificationX, Betterdocs, EmbedPress, SchedulePress, ReviewX, BetterLinks etc. WPDeveloper was founded by M Asif Rahman.
12. Brainstorm Force
Brainstorm Force is a WordPress company that aims to make creating a website simple and uncomplicated. They build quality products and tools that are simple to use, affordable, and reliable to help entrepreneurs, professionals, and bloggers grow online.
One of their amazing products is the Astra theme. Astra theme is used by more than 1 million WordPress websites and it is one of the top 10 fastest WordPress themes. They are also the creator of WordPress plugins like Starter Templates, Spectra, Ultimate Addons for Elementor, Schema Pro and many more.
The company was started by Sujay and Abhijeet in 2009.
13. Webtoffee (Mozilor Technologies Pvt)
This WordPress company has more than 15 plugins on the WordPress Repository. These include CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent & Compliance Notice (CCPA Ready) plugin which has more than 1 million active installations. They also created some Woocommerce add-on plugins, including Import Export Suite for WooCommerce, WooCommerce PDF Invoices, Packing Slips, Delivery Notes and Shipping Labels and Subscriptions for WooCommerce.
14. Rank Math
Rank Math is one of the most popular WordPress SEO plugins. Rank Math helps with on-page SEO, schema markups and a few technical SEO functions. It currently has more than 1 million active installations and more than 4 thousand 5-star ratings.
Rank Math was founded in 2020 in New Delhi, India.
15. InMotion Hosting (BoldGrid)
BoldGrid makes it easy to create beautiful websites on WordPress. One of their oldest and most popular products is the W3 Total Cache. This tool helps with optimizing for speed. It currently has more than 1 million active installations. They also have a page builder called WordPress Website Builder.
16. WP SERVEUR SAS
WP SERVEUR SAS is a WordPress security and hosting company. They are the makers of the popular WPS Hide Plugin that helps in obfuscating the default login URL of a website. The plugin has more than 1 million active installations. Other plugins developed by this company include WPS Limit Login, WPS Cleaner and others.
They handle hosting, configuration, backups and security for WordPress site.
17. WebDevStudios
WebDevStudios is a WordPress company that has both contributed to developing WordPress plugins and also writing books that help beginners get acquainted with WordPress. Some of the books they have written include WordPress For Dummies, Professional WordPress Design & Development, and Creating a Web Site: Design and Build Your First Site!
They have also developed plugins like Custom Post Type UI (1 million + active installation), which helps in creating custom posts. This plugin is quite helpful when trying to create some custom pages and taxonomies.
WebDevStudios is owned and operated by pioneers in the WordPress industry, Brad Williams and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Since its establishment in 2008, the company has expanded to a highly-skilled group of designers, developers, and project managers that are dedicated to delivering amazing results for clients.
18. Extendify Software
Extendify specialized in building beautiful blocks and templates for WordPress based on the Gutenberg editor. One of their most installed plugins is the ‘Gutenberg Template and Pattern Library & Redux Framework plugin. The plugin has 1 million + active installations. As the name of the company suggests, they extend the functions of your WordPress designs, eliminating the need for a pagebuilder.
Their blocks are built on the core WordPress framework, making the sites built with them super fast.
19. Liquid Web, LLC (iThemes)
iThemes is the WordPress plugin that provides the security plugin with more than 1 million active installations iThemes Security. They also have other plugins like BackupBuddy, Kadence WP (a pagebuilder), Restrict Content Pro etc.
In 2018, iThemes was acquired by Liquid Web, LLC.
iThemes is more focused on security tools.
20. SiteOrigin
Siteorigin is another great WordPress plugin. Their plugins and themes have over 2.5 million installs. They also have a page builder that powers their themes. The company was started by Greg Priday in 2011 in South Africa.
Their plugin – Page Builder by SiteOrigin has more than 900, 000 active installations. They also have many other plugins that have active installations on hundred of thousands of websites.
21. ThemeIsle
ThemeIsle is a WordPress company located in Bucharest, Romania. The company was established in 2012 to develop themes of high quality. It’s a superfast, effectively adjustable, multi-reason WordPress subject with an emphasis on Elementor compatibility.
It has been a great avenue for developers, designers, testers, and marketers. With users all over the world, it has about an estimated one million dollars in annual revenue. Therefore, ThemeIsle has made it easy for anyone in the world to launch and grow their online presence, through education, high-quality products, and reliable support.
One of their popular plugins is WP Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon. This plugin helps in putting the site on a maintenance mode until the site is ready for public view. The plugin has more than 900, 000 active installations at the time of this writing.
22. Yithemes
Another major WordPress company is Yith (Your Inspiration Solutions). Yithemes is located in Santa Cruz, Spain. With a five star on Google, Yith has an extensive collection of professional high-quality themes and plugins and it has helped solve Plugins and themes issues.
After its development in 2012 by Nando Papalardo, Yithemes has become one of the most incredible online business stages for WordPress. What makes them very pursued is the way that they are the greatest designers of imaginative WordPress Plugins and topics for internet business, networks, websites, and corporate destinations.
One of their plugins is YITH WooCommerce Wishlist with more than 900, 000 active installations.
23. Webfactory Ltd
Webfactory was founded in August 2009 by Gorden Orlic. It is set to make WordPress products and to help users utilize WordPress better, faster, and easier. Webfactory has developed both developers’ and non-developers products for easy access to WordPress. Some of the plugins include; WP Reset Plugin, 301 redirects plugin, under construction page plugin and minimal coming soon and maintenance mode plugin (CSMM). Some of which help users in managing redirections in case of URL error, building a coming soon page, and a lot more.
Their current plugin with the highest installation is ‘Maintenance‘ with over 700, 000 active installations.
24. Imagely, LLC (formerly NextGEN)
Imagely is affiliated with NextGen gallery of WordPress. Nathan Singh a former employee at Envira Gallery founded Imagely to build a gallery plugin space for WordPress. Imagely is a WordPress gallery plugin that enables users in customizing their galleries for clients. Developed for photographers, Imagely helps them to improve their web presence by providing diverse themes, hosting, and plugins. With its steady growth, it has countless customizations, and built-in present designs available for WordPress users.
To solve photography situations within WordPress, they created beautiful themes, website designs, e-commerce, and print lab services.
Their plugin with the highest installations is WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery with more than 600, 000 active installations.
25. Wpmet
Wpmet was founded in 2018 by Ataur R. Their goal is to provide high-quality themes and plugins. They currently have more than 10 plugins and 58 themes. Their most installed plugin is ElementsKit Elementor addons (Header Footer Builder, Mega Menu Builder, Free Elementor Widgets & Elementor Templates Library) with more than 700, 000 active installations.
26. WP Media
WP Media is a bootstrapped, remote startup of 35 people based all around the world. They are the creators of the popular WP Rocket plugin that helps with speeding up WordPress sites. They also created Imagify – Optimize Images & Convert WebP that helps with converting images into the WEBP format. The plugin currently has more than 600, 000 active installations.
27. Veronalabs
Veronalabs provides WordPress solutions to grow businesses. Their plugins and themes have been downloaded more than 11 million times. Their services include theme development, speed optimization, WordPress, WordPress care plans, and white label WordPress design. Through their diverse products such as vita themes, wp-statistics, wp SMS, and wp telegram notification.
WP Statistics is one of their most popular plugins with more than 600, 000 active installations.
28. ShortPixel
ShortPixel is another great WordPress company. It was founded by Simon Duduica in 2009. Short Pixel allows users to compress and optimize their images to aid in better search ranking. Their team has improved WordPress providing advanced compression technology, quick backups, and SEO ranking. Short pixels have proven to be one of the best with over 300,000 installations improving the users’ experience through optimized images.
The Enable Media Replace Plugin by SHortPixel currently has more than 500, 000 active installations.
29. MainWP
MainWP is known as the private WordPress manager. It permits you to control essentially all of your everyday WordPress upkeep undertakings at definitely no expense. Dennis Dornon the co-founder of MainWP WordPress plugin said the idea came from the need to update over a hundred websites while keeping them private.
The product allows a user to install, activate, deactivate, update, or delete plugins and themes across all your managed WP sites.
Their most popular plugin is MainWP Child – Which securely connects sites to the MainWP WordPress Manager Dashboard with more than 500, 000 installations.
30. Strategy11, LLC
Formidable forms is one of the WordPress form builders developed to create WordPress forms. Unlike other WordPress form plugins, it comes with a 100% drag and drop WP form builder. WordPress User registration forms, Calculator forms, payment forms, and email subscription forms are some of the products they offer. Formidable Forms has helped to increase store sales through their tools and diverse templates.
The Formidable Form Builder – Contact Form, Survey & Quiz Forms Plugin for WordPress currently has more than 300, 000 active installations.
31. WPExperts
WPExperts is a WordPress web development agency that helps in developing custom WordPress websites and plugins. The professional team focuses on WordPress customization services including WordPress SaaS development, WordPress backend development (PHP, JavaScript), WordPress frontend development (HTML5, CSS3, AJAX), and SEO services. Also, WPExperts offer Woocommerce solutions.
They have developed many paid and free plugins. One of their most popular free plugins is Password Protected with more than 300, 000 active installations.
32. WPEngine
With over 1 million websites in 150 countries, WPEngine has built a brand around WordPress. The company helps in maintenance. They secure and protect sites granting site speed, automated updates, managed upgrades, and even daily backups. WPEngine hosting services have improved users’ experience with WordPress.
They created the PHP Compatibility Checker with more than 200, 000 active installations.
33. Digital factory
Digital factory is set to create user-friendly plugins for WordPress. Their products make it easy for site owners to use WordPress. They’ve created over 150 plugins in the past 10 years with WordPress. To make it easier, digital factory created products around responsive lightbox, image watermark, cookie notice, post views counter, and others.
This company has blessed the WordPress ecosystem with many free amazing plugins. One of the most installed is Post Views Counter with 200, 000 active installations.
34. Moove
Moove is a brand that has worked with diverse companies apart from WordPress. Companies like Sony, Which?, and Expolink are added to their portfolio. Referred to as WordPress Vip agency, Moove has made GDPR cookie compliance that aids to prepare websites for GDPR and CCPA cookie regulations.
They developed the GDPR Cookie Compliance (CCPA ready) plugin which currently has more than 200, 000 active installations.
35. Bestwebsoft
This WordPress company has over 60+ plugins that help in adding follow and share buttons to your WordPress website posts, pages or widgets. Also, they’ve developed themes, PSD, and HTML templates for WordPress site owners. Through its team of web developers and designers, the company has had over 700+ successes since 2009. Powering
WordPress users, Bestwebsoft has over 60,000 active installations for each of their plugins.
They have developed many free plugins but the most popular is the reCaptcha by BestWebSoft with more than 200, 000 active installations.
36. Kybernetik Services
Kybernetik services was a media house that has grown to have their WordPress plugin online shop as of 2021. Established in 1998, the company has evolved with time and technology. After they joined WordPress in 2010, Kybernetik services started specializing in plugins in 2013. One of their known plugins is Quick feature images which helps to manage tons of featured images in minutes. Nice right?
They also developed the Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails which has more than 200, 000 installations.
37. CloudWays
Cloudways is a WordPress host. It handles all the technical aspects of managing the servers and installing software. Founded in 2012 by Aaqib Gadit and Pere Hospital, it has over 280+ employees and manages cloud hosting in about 20 countries. Cloudways has put WordPress users at ease by monitoring the applications hosted on their servers.
They developed the Breeze – WordPress Cache Plugin plugin which currently has more than 200, 000 active installations.
38. Niteo Themes
With 3 million downloads and 200,000 active users, Niteo themes are known for their creative web design when it comes to theme setup. Making thousands of sites look good. Their plugins help to achieve nice layouts, logos, background graphics, and custom text or graphic content on WordPress.
Their most popular plugins can CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes.
39. WPEverest
WPEverest is a WordPress plugin company that was founded in 2014. Some of their plugins include User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form And User Profile For WordPress and Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress – Everest Forms which help in creating forms for experts and beginners. Over the years, they’ve had over 3 million downloads with 260,000 active users. WPEverest has one of the best drag-and-drop WordPress plugins.
The Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress – Everest Forms currently has more than 200, 000 installations.
40. QuadLayers
Quadlayers team has been working with WordPress for a decade. However, the company was founded in 2018 with the desire to build products that help people find solutions to grow their WordPress businesses faster. Quad layers have the highest grades in speed testing tools. This shows the authenticity of their products. Dynamic from other plugins by other companies, Quadlayers designed WooCommerce direct checkout, an Instagram feed that allows you to display Instagram pictures on your site, and WP Social Chat – Click To Chat App which has over 100,000 active installations.
41. FreshLightlab
This WordPress company has unique Plugins. It also has a goal of providing solutions for WordPress and websites. FreshLightLab has over 250,0000 active installations with 2 million downloads. Building plugins that improve the functionality and help in users’ navigation, this company stands out. It offers plugins that assist in client payment for users with promises of no risk. Another plugin that stands out is the mobile menu. This plugin enhances one navigation of the site and gives it a mobile app feel. That’s genius! Founded by a senior developer and digital creator, Rui Guerreiro, and Nuno Pessoa respectively, Freshlight lab extends its praises.
Menu Image, Icons made easy plugin has more than 100, 000 installations.
42. Yikes
Yikes focuses on WordPress development and design for businesses and non-profit organizations. It is a WordPress company that has come to work with organizations such as the City of Philadelphia, Penn, The Soulful Project, and Decibel over the years. Specializing in WordPress development and design, it has built products around custom themes, plugins, web-based applications, e-commerce, WordPress multisite, and third-party integration.
Two of Yikes’ plugins have more than 100, 000 active installations – Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce and
Easy Forms for Mailchimp.
43. Creative Motion
Creative Motion founded by Vlad and Ilya uniquely designs easy-to-use plugins for WordPress site owners. Their plugins are used by 32.5% of WordPress users. Impressive! Some of their 18 plugins include clearfy, woody ad snippets, Robin image optimizer, disable admin notices, auto post thumbnail, social slider widget, and WordPress assets manager. Their plugins are not only easy to use but unique. With diverse activities needed in a website, creative motion helps to keep to boat sailing.
Creative Motion has at least 3 plugins with over 100, 000 active installations – Robin image optimizer — save money on image compression, Disable Admin Notices individually and Clearfy Cache – WordPress optimization plugin, Minify HTML, CSS & JS, Defer
44. Pods
Pod is another company in WordPress that enables users to create content for their sites. The Pods Framework is an open-source, GPLv2+ licensed PHP project released on October 8th, 2008 by Matt Gibbs. Within weeks of the release, Scott Kingsley Clark joined the project as a contributor and eventually took over as lead developer mid-2011. Pods plugins help create custom post types, custom taxonomies, settings pages, add custom fields, and even extend content types. Through their plugins, WordPress websites can become powerful and flexible.
The Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields has more than 100, 000 active installations.
45. Extend Themes
Extend Themes is a WordPress theme development company zeroed in on making super-easy to use, drag & drop WordPress themes. Their assistance transforms websites into beautiful websites using a single intuitive interface. Extend themes depicts just one big picture which is in creating WordPress themes. Some of their features are drag and drop themes, multi-purpose drag and drop themes, materials design drag and drop themes, and full-screen drag and drop themes.
Their Colibri Page Builder and Mesmerize Companion have more than 100, 000 active installations.
46. WPVibes
Anand Upadhayay founded WPVibes in 2010 with a great hallmark of creating solutions for WordPress users. Their products have been actively used by 200,000 people and the company has achieved over 2.5 million downloads with several 5-star reviews. WpVibes helps in analyzing perceived performances from the users’ perspective through their plugins. Elementor Addon elements is a product that enhances the web designing experience with 24+ unique and creative widgets. The company has other products like Map engine, booster blocks, etc.
They developed the Elementor Addon Elements has more than 100, 000 active installations.
47. Publishpress
It’s a WordPress company that helps to manage content on WordPress. This includes an editorial calendar and plans content. Their plugins are one of a kind as it empowers writers in improving their page and their development.
Some of their products are; publishpress authors, publishpress blocks, publishpress capabilities, publishpress checklists, publishpress permissions, and publishpress revisions. They allow you to add many authors to one WordPress post, customize permissions in very advanced ways, and manage and schedule WordPress revisions.
PublishPress Future: Automatically Unpublish WordPress Posts and PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Access, Editor Permissions, Admin Menus have more than 100, 000 active installations each.
LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin is one of their popular plugins with more than 100, 000 plugins.
48. Flippercode
Flipper code was established in 2013 in India. It is a theme and plugin development company. With about 20+ premium plugins and about 9 free, flipper code has offered solutions to business owners all over the globe. Distinctly developed, it provides web search tools that allow clients to find your products easily online. Ranging from Was this helpful Pro plugin to WC store locate pro, and wooCommerce delivery area pro, all of their products draw users closer to their clients.
WP Google Map Plugin, one of their plugins has more than 100, 000 active installations.
49. Wpkube
Wpkube is a WordPress resource that offers tutorials, How to’s, plugins, news, and more. This company comprises web designers and developers who have a passion for writing. Wpkube is a company that helps not only improve WordPress users’ experience but to educates them. Some of their write-ups are written on how to choose the best WordPress hosting for your new website, and getting started with Google Analytics on your WordPress site.
They have developed many plugins but one of their best plugins is Advanced Excerpt with more than 100, 000 active installations.
The table below contains the List of WordPress Companies.
Conclusion
These companies are listed in no particular order. These are not all the WordPress companies we have but at the time of this writing, all the companies here have met the criteria stated at the beginning of this post.
Thank you for reading so far.