Getting started

Install Reign, activate your licence, and make the first configuration pass.

• What Reign does for your site The practical difference Reign makes for you and your visitors, and where to switch each part on.
• What you can build with Reign and the free plugins Complete community, learning, directory, events, job board and services sites built from Reign and the free editions of the Wbcom plugins, with what each free plugin gives you and what Pro adds.
• Your site setup checklist Every step from buying Reign to launching your site, in the order that saves you rework, with a link to the guide for each one.
• Install Reign What your server needs, how to upload and activate the theme, and where Reign's settings live once it is running.
• Activate your licence Where the licence key goes, what activating unlocks, and what to check when a key is refused.
• A tour of Reign Settings What each of the seven Reign Settings screens does, and which settings live there rather than in the Customizer.
• The Brand your site checklist The eight items on the Reign Settings Home checklist, what each one changes for a visitor, and where it takes you.
• Choose your plugins and start from a ready-made site Match the kind of site you are building to the Wbcom plugins that power it, install them in the right order, and load demo content so the site looks finished in minutes.
• First configuration An ordered pass through the settings that matter on a new site, from logo to footer, using the palette-first route rather than the legacy one.
• Update Reign safely How updates arrive, what to do before one, and why a child theme is the difference between a safe update and a lost afternoon.

10 pages, written for Reign 8.0.8.