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Ahammed Mirdas

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I am Ahammed Mirdas, CEO, and co-founder of PluginHive, with over 20 years of experience working across diverse domains. Now, I specialize in the eCommerce Shipping domain, and my mission is to build the best shipping solution for WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and PrestaShop. Every day, I am excited to solve new problems, whether it’s finding a box packing solution for a merchant shipping bottles or creating commercial invoices for a multi-currency supported eCommerce store. When I’m not working, you can find me playing tennis with my daughter or taking long drives in my BMW with my wife

WordPress Origin Story

I completed my Masters in Computer Applications and worked my way up to becoming a Senior Technical Architect at various IT companies, including MindTree and Societe Generale. However, I realized I needed more of a challenge and decided to start my own company with two friends. We called it Chase Your Dream or CydTechLab for short and chose to bootstrap it using WordPress. Under the brand WooForce, we launched our first plugin and built more plugins for WooCommerce and WordPress, creating new brands like LearnWoo, StorePep, WSDesk, ExtensionHawk, and HikeForce. Due to trademark concerns from the Woo team, we changed the WooForce name to a new brand, XAdapter.

After some time, we decided to separate on good terms and started our own individual companies: Solvilor, Mozilor, and Elula Technologies. Each of us created our own brands, including PluginHive, Webtofee, and AdaptXy. Solvilor and PluginHive are 100% owned by myself and my wife, Minal Prakash Kokane.

Looking back after eight years, I realize that I made many mistakes, such as not sharing my stories with the public and not guiding my team with community guidelines. We should have also focused on building a single brand to make it a billion-dollar company. But, I learned from my mistakes and decided to pursue a single brand, PluginHive, serving eCommerce merchants across WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and PrestaShop. I remain hopeful that WordPress will allow PluginHive back onto their platform.

In the end, the journey of entrepreneurship is full of ups and downs, and the lessons learned along the way are what matter most. I’m grateful for the experiences I’ve had, and I’m excited about what the future holds for my company and me

  • Member Since: November 23rd, 2017
  • Location: Bangalore, India
  • Website: pluginhive.com
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  • Posted a reply to Order Tracking – Date format is off when showing shipping status, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The FedEx WooCommerce Shipping Method Plugin is by PluginHive. However, the free version of this…

  • Posted a reply to Order Tracking – Date format is off when showing shipping status, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The date format displayed will be taken from the WordPress date format. You can check…

  • Created a topic, Why is this plugin not listed as a certified CMP partner, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plugin is free and uses local data storage, which…

  • Posted a reply to Credentials not added, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello @deanlavastica , Enable the option in the plugin to get your account rates.

  • Posted a reply to Fedex displays wrong rates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello @usaoxlina, With an individual product in the cart, you should get the exact rate.…

  • Posted a reply to Shipping not working for some states, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello @umairfakher, Generally, there can be two reasons for such an issue. 1, Authorisation failed.…

  • Posted a reply to Not showing up in front, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @tom8000 I have replied to the similar query

  • Posted a reply to Not all zip codes work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello @tom8000 , Generally there can be two reason for such issue. 1, Authorisation failed.…

  • Posted a reply to The cookies wp_affiliates is not set, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Configure Varnish cache for this doesnt seems to be right. The best solution for this…

  • Posted a reply to Using server side using PHP setcookie?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thats a concern. It doesnt work very well with varnish cache & breeze plugin provided…

  • Created a topic, Using server side using PHP setcookie?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Are using javascript to assign the cookie on the clien…

  • Posted a reply to The cookies wp_affiliates is not set, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I found the issue. This plugin doesn't work very well if cache is enabled. Do…

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    Hello Team, The cookies wp_affiliates is not set when…