Course community · Tutor LMS
Build a Tutor LMS course community on WordPress
A course community with an instructor dashboard, a student feed, and one consistent design across both. Learnomy runs the courses free. If your instructors already work in Tutor LMS, the Reign Tutor LMS Addon styles every Tutor surface to match.
The Reign theme is the only thing you have to buy. See every plugin that installs free, or have us install the whole stack for $699.
Stack recipe
What you need to assemble.
Buy the theme. Install our plugins free. The third-party engine and its Reign add-on are here for people already running that stack, not a second bill everyone pays.
Build it in 5 steps
From zero to live community.
Install Reign, the one purchase
Reign is $99 a year or $249 once for a single site. It is the only required purchase in this recipe.
Add the community engine, free
BuddyNext brings profiles, activity feed, groups, and messages for nothing. If you are already on BuddyPress or BuddyBoss, keep the engine you know and add the BuddyPress Community Bundle from $249 a year for our Pro community plugins.
Add courses with Learnomy, free
Learnomy covers course building, lessons, quizzes, progress, and certificates in the free version, and instructors work inside a Reign-styled interface rather than raw plugin markup. Pro adds payments, drip, assignments, and grading from $149 a year.
Already on Tutor LMS? Style it instead
Tutor LMS free core plus the Reign Tutor LMS Addon ($39 a year for one site) renders courses and instructor dashboards in Reign tokens. Tutor LMS Pro adds funnels, certificate templates, and advanced quizzes on their side.
Payments and engagement loops
Take the money through Learnomy Pro, Tutor LMS Pro, or WooCommerce for cart-style checkout. Then set the loops: day 1 welcome, lesson reminders, completion celebrations, through FluentCRM or Groundhogg.
Add these free
More pieces you can add at no cost.
Same team builds the theme and the plugins, so these inherit the Reign design instead of needing custom CSS. The ones marked free install at no cost, and upgrades are sold per plugin, so nothing here needs a bundle.
BuddyNext
Our own community engine: profiles, activity, groups, messages, notifications.
Reign Demo Installer
One-click import of 30+ demo sites. Free with Reign theme.
Wbcom Essential
Free utility plugin bundling small enhancements for BP + Reign.
BuddyPress Check-ins
Daily check-ins build streaks + accountability.
BuddyPress Follow
Follow members + see their activity in a custom feed.
BuddyPress Giphy
GIF integration in posts + comments.
BuddyPress Group Reviews
Members rate + review groups. Helps surface active spaces.
Eventonomy
Events, calendars, and RSVPs for community sites.
See every plugin and what its free version does. Third-party tools such as LearnDash, Dokan, and MemberPress still fit where you already run them, and Reign styles those too.
FAQ
Common questions.
Why Learnomy first?
It starts free, it comes from the team that builds the theme, and Reign styles it with no add-on in between. You can publish a full course and see whether anyone finishes it before you spend anything beyond the theme.
Why would I still pick Tutor LMS?
A friendlier course builder for instructors who already know it, a large add-on ecosystem, and an install base in the tens of thousands. If your instructors already work in Tutor LMS, moving them is a cost with no benefit. Reign styles it either way.
What does the Tutor LMS path cost?
Reign at $99 a year or $249 lifetime, plus the Reign Tutor LMS Addon at $39 a year for one site, plus Tutor LMS Pro if you need it. The Reign TutorLMS Theme kit ships the theme and add-on together from $129 a year.
Ship it
Reign is the only thing you have to buy.
Learnomy and the rest of our plugins install free, and the theme styles them out of the box. Building on Tutor LMS instead? The Reign TutorLMS Theme kit ships the theme with the matching Reign add-on.