1-3 days (data stays, only theme + styling changes)
BuddyBoss Theme plus Pro renewals plus add-on subscriptions add up. Reign is $99/year or $249 lifetime for the theme, and the Wbcom plugins around it install free with their own Pro plans, so you upgrade one piece at a time instead of one large annual licence.
Reign is the design layer at $99/year or $249 lifetime, and it is the only thing you have to buy. The plugins that rebuild your community here are ours: BuddyNext for members and groups, Learnomy for courses, Jetonomy for forums and Q&A, MediaVerse for member media. 11 of them install free, each with its own Pro plan for when one part of the community starts earning. No monthly platform fee replaces the one you are leaving.
Full backup via UpdraftPlus or your host. Critical before any theme switch.
Clone to staging. Activate Reign. Inspect every BuddyPress + LearnDash surface.
Any custom CSS targeting BuddyBoss-specific classes needs rewriting for Reign classes. Use browser DevTools to identify.
BuddyBoss Platform (the engine) stays and Reign supports it, so only the theme switches. If you later want off BuddyBoss licensing entirely, BuddyNext is our own engine and installs free.
When staging looks right, deactivate BuddyBoss Theme + activate Reign. Clear cache.
Watch for member confusion in first 48h. Some members will notice the new design + ask questions.
This one is different from the rest of the list because you are already on WordPress, so nothing leaves the database. Clone the live site to staging and do the whole thing there. Audit what BuddyBoss-specific features you actually use, particularly custom profile fields and any platform-only components, because those are what need decisions rather than the posts and members.
Check member profiles, groups and the activity stream as a normal member and confirm nothing lost its custom fields. Verify any BuddyBoss app integration you were relying on, since that is the part that does not come with you. Then check the site on a phone, because the theme change is what members will notice first and mobile is where most of them are.
Treating it as a theme switch and doing it on production. Both sides are WordPress, which makes this feel low risk, and that is exactly why people skip staging. Custom profile fields and component settings are where the damage happens, and discovering it on a live community with members watching is an avoidable and very public problem.
No - BuddyBoss Theme + Reign Theme both run on top of BuddyPress / BuddyBoss Platform. Member data + groups + activity all stay.
BuddyBoss App requires BuddyBoss Theme + Platform. Switching to Reign disables BuddyBoss App. Add a Reign-compatible mobile app via AppPresser if needed.
Some - the Platform-level Pro features stay. Theme-level features (BuddyBoss Theme styling, Theme add-ons) go away.
Yes, the app is theirs and does not come with you. That is the clearest cost of this particular move, and if the app is how your members arrive it may be reason enough to stay. Everything else about the migration is comparatively easy.
Yes, and many people do exactly that. Reign ships a dedicated BuddyBoss Platform stylesheet, so you keep the platform and its features and change the design. That is a much smaller project than moving to BuddyNext.
Wbcom team handles every step. You wake up to a live community on Reign with members migrated + billing on Stripe + welcome emails firing.
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Swift and expert coding by Kerit to apply a personalised display adjustment on the Reign Theme for a media plugin that was not fully supported at the moment.
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WBComDesigns is amazing. The WP plugins and themes are of top notch quality with lots of features and updated very frequently. Supports are very responsive and helpful. I use Reign with TutorLMS, and the experience is surprisingly smooth. The recently launched BuddyNext Pro and MediaShield Pro are…
Love this company. Loved the REIGN product. They were there the entire time helping me set things up; and when things went wrong? They were quick to take action and help find a solution.
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