Reign is a WordPress theme built by Wbcom Designs. It turns a standard WordPress install into a complete community site, where members have profiles, post to a feed, join spaces, message each other, take courses, sell on a marketplace, list a business or apply for jobs. Reign supplies the design and ties the pieces into one site with one login; plugins supply the features. Wbcom builds its own community engine, BuddyNext, which installs free, and Reign also styles BuddyPress, BuddyBoss Platform and PeepSo for sites already running those.
The Reign theme is the design layer: headers, page templates, member directory and profile styles, feed and space styling, and dark mode, all set from the WordPress Customizer. It comes with the free Reign Demo Installer, which imports a demo site in one step so you start from a finished layout. The theme is the only purchase required. The features come from Wbcom plugins that install free: BuddyNext for the community, Learnomy for courses, Jetonomy for forums and Q&A, Eventonomy for events, WP Career Board for jobs, WP Sell Services for a services marketplace, Listora for directories, MediaVerse for member photos and video, and WB Gamification for points and badges. Most have an optional Pro plan. For sites on third-party plugins such as LearnDash or Dokan, Reign also offers 10 styling add-ons and 10 bundled kits.
Reign is the theme, not the community engine. On its own it does not give you a feed, courses or listings; it styles the pages that plugins create. Each of those functions has a Wbcom plugin that installs free: BuddyNext for the community, Learnomy for courses, Jetonomy for forums and Q&A, Eventonomy for events, WP Career Board for jobs, WP Sell Services for a services marketplace, Listora for directories and MediaVerse for member media. If you would rather run third-party plugins, Reign also styles BuddyPress, BuddyBoss Platform, PeepSo, LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, Sensei, Dokan, WC Vendors, WCFM, WP Job Manager and GeoDirectory. Reign has no first-party native mobile app; the site is built to work well in a phone browser.
BuddyBoss is two products, the BuddyBoss Platform community engine and the BuddyBoss Theme, sold together as one yearly subscription, with a native app sold separately. Reign is a theme licence, yearly or lifetime, that works with the free BuddyNext engine as well as BuddyPress, BuddyBoss Platform and PeepSo. The plugins around Reign for courses, forums, events, jobs, marketplace and directories install free and are upgraded one at a time, only where your site needs it.
Reign is one theme licence per site, yearly or lifetime, and it is the only thing you have to buy. The Wbcom plugins that add the features install free, so a working community site starts with the theme alone. Each plugin has an optional Pro plan for its advanced features, and you add those one at a time. There is no per-member fee and no share of your sales. Styling add-ons and kits for third-party plugins are separate. Every current price is on the pricing page, read from the store.
You need a WordPress site on standard hosting with PHP and MySQL, a domain, a community engine and the Reign theme. BuddyNext is Wbcom's own engine and installs free; BuddyPress, BuddyBoss Platform and PeepSo also work. After you activate the theme, the free Reign Demo Installer imports a full demo so you replace sample content instead of building pages from nothing. The hosting page explains what to look for in a host as the community grows.
Three kinds of owner most often. Course creators who want lessons and a community on one login, using Learnomy or an LMS they already run. Marketplace owners who want buyer and seller profiles around a services marketplace on WP Sell Services, or a product marketplace on Dokan, WC Vendors or WCFM. And professional networks, associations, alumni groups and niche communities where members need profiles, spaces, a directory, events or a job board. The use-case pages cover more than forty site types, each with the setup that fits.
Yes. The demos page has finished demo sites for community, courses, marketplace, directory and job board setups that you can click through as a member, and private sandboxes where you can open the WordPress admin and change settings yourself. Neither needs a signup. Trying the demo closest to your site is the fastest way to see whether the layout fits before you spend anything.
Yes. A small community can start with the theme and BuddyNext alone, which gives members profiles, a feed and spaces, and add other plugins only when the community asks for them. Nothing is charged per member, so the cost does not change as the community grows, and moving from a small site to a larger one is a matter of better hosting, not a new platform.
Other WordPress community themes include BuddyBoss Theme, BuddyX (free, from the same team), Kleo and Olympus. Hosted platforms include Mighty Networks, Circle, Skool, Bettermode and Hivebrite, and chat tools such as Slack and Discord are often used for community too. Reign is the self-hosted option: more setup work in exchange for owning the domain, the member data, the payment account and the search traffic your content earns.
