Build a WordPress community. In any shape.

Reign is a WordPress theme that builds online community sites. You install it on your own WordPress site (any host) and add a community engine. Our own engine, BuddyNext, is free, and Reign also styles BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, and PeepSo if you already run one of those. Reign handles the design and the member-facing pages; the engine handles activity feeds, spaces, messages (with WPMediaVerse), and profiles.

Yes. The live demos in the section above are finished sites you can click through as a member, and the sandboxes give you a fresh WordPress site with Reign and a community setup ready, so you can open the admin and change settings yourself. No signup and no email needed.

You buy one theme licence per site, yearly or lifetime, and that is the only thing you have to buy. Our own plugins install free, so a working community site starts with the theme alone. If one part of it grows, that plugin has its own optional Pro plan. There is no per-member fee and no share of your sales. Running a third-party stack such as LearnDash or Dokan? Reign add-ons and bundled kits style those. Current prices are on /pricing/.

No. The Reign Demo Installer, free with the theme, imports a full demo site in one click. Our plugins are styled by the theme out of the box, so there is no CSS to write. If you would rather not touch any of it, the Wbcom team can install and set up everything for you.

BuddyBoss Theme is built for the BuddyBoss Platform plugin and sold as a yearly subscription. Reign is a yearly or lifetime theme licence, works with our free BuddyNext engine as well as BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, and PeepSo, and the plugins that add courses, forums, events, and jobs are free rather than bundled into a subscription. Read the full comparison at /alternatives/buddyboss/.

Yes. Each platform has a step-by-step guide at /migrate-to-reign-from/: export your members, rebuild your spaces and courses on Reign, move paying members to your own checkout, and run both sites side by side until members have moved. BuddyBoss sites keep their data and only change theme.

Yes, and that is what Reign is for. BuddyNext runs the community, Learnomy the courses, WP Sell Services a services marketplace, WP Career Board a job board and Listora a directory, all on one WordPress install with one login. A member who joins for a course can post in the community, hire a seller and apply for a job without a second account. Start with the part you need now and add the others later; nothing has to move.

It can be, because the public parts of the site are ordinary pages on your own domain. Forum threads, member-written answers, directory listings, course outlines and job posts can all be indexed, so the questions your members answer today bring new members in later. You decide which spaces are public and which stay private, and the content never sits behind someone else's login wall.

Yes. Reign is built to work well in a phone browser: the feed, profiles, spaces, course lessons, listings and checkout all adapt to a small screen, and members can add the site to their home screen. There is no first-party native app in the app stores. If a store app is a must for your community, check the third-party app wrappers before you choose.

Wbcom Designs, a product team building WordPress community sites since 2013. We build the whole stack in house: the Reign and BuddyX themes, the BuddyNext community engine, and the plugins for courses, forums, events, jobs, marketplaces, and directories. Visit wbcomdesigns.com to see the studio.

A WordPress site on any host, a domain, and a community engine. BuddyNext is ours and free, which is the simplest place to start; BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, and PeepSo all work too. Reign installs as a standard WordPress theme: upload the ZIP through Appearance then Themes, activate the licence key, and the free Reign Demo Installer imports a full demo site in one click.