BuddyX is a free WordPress theme that helps you build beautiful, professional websites without writing code or buying a page builder. Drop in ready-made layouts for your home page, about page, services, pricing, testimonials, and FAQs (27 designer-made sections you can mix and match), then edit the words and images in the regular WordPress editor. No Elementor licence, no Divi subscription, nothing extra to buy.
BuddyX also pairs tightly with BuddyPress and the wider community stack below, so the same theme powers a marketing site or a full social community.
- Download: https://wordpress.org/themes/buddyx/
- Product page: https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddyx-theme/
- Changelog: https://wbcomdesigns.com/release-notes/buddyx-theme/
- Latest release: see Releases
- WordPress 6.5 or later
- PHP 8.0 or later
- 27 block patterns for common page sections, edited in the native block editor
- Native light and dark mode with a visitor toggle
- Style presets and a typography-first customizer built on design tokens
- Two bundled fonts for fast, GDPR-friendly loading (no Google Fonts cookies)
- BuddyPress, bbPress, and WooCommerce ready, with dark-mode compatibility
- Built on WP Rig for a fast, standards-based foundation
BuddyX is built by Wbcom Designs, the team behind Reign and the BuddyPress Community Bundle. Two community plugins pair with the theme when you want to run a real community, not just a marketing site.
Standing up a community usually means BuddyPress plus a dozen add-ons to patch the gaps. BuddyNext is a complete community platform in one free plugin: activity feed, spaces, member profiles, direct messaging, a member directory, and a full moderation suite. It stays fast at any size and is yours to run forever.
BuddyNext Pro adds the application and monetization layer: membership plans with on-site checkout and content protection, gateway-agnostic payments, email automation, and AI-assisted moderation review. Requires BuddyNext Free.
- Site: https://buddynext.com/
- Download: https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddynext/
Standard WordPress forums slow down once the community passes a few thousand topics. Jetonomy stores forum data in its own database tables, so search, threading, and feeds stay fast past 100,000 topics. Six trust levels let your community moderate itself across forums, Q&A spaces, and ideas boards.
Jetonomy Pro ships 14 modular extensions for engagement (reactions, polls, badges) and operations (analytics, webhooks, push): enable only what your community needs and skip the rest.
- Site: https://jetonomy.org/
- Download: https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/jetonomy/
Every plugin below is self-hosted on your own WordPress site, with a free core and an optional Pro layer. No per-seat pricing, no per-ticket cut, no platform fee.
| Product | What it does | Links |
|---|---|---|
| BuddyNext | A complete community platform in one free plugin: activity feed, spaces, member profiles, direct messaging, a member directory, and a full moderation suite. | Site · Download |
| Jetonomy | Forums, Q&A, and ideas boards on their own database tables, so search and threading stay fast past 100,000 topics. | Site · Download |
| Learnomy | The simplest LMS for WordPress: build courses, sell them with built-in Stripe and PayPal, run quizzes, issue signed certificates, and pay instructors. | Site · Download |
| Eventonomy | Events, RSVPs, ticketing, and calendars on your own site, with no per-ticket platform fees. | Site · Download |
| Listora | A directory that scales past 100,000 listings: faceted search, frontend submission, business claims, anti-spam, and Gutenberg blocks. | Site · Download |
| WP Career Board | A job board with live search, employer and candidate dashboards, applications, company profiles, and a Pro ATS hiring pipeline. | Site · Download |
BuddyX Pro builds on this theme with dark-mode colour controls (47 dark_* customizer keys against free's toggle alone), a login modal and login-page designer, scroll-to-top, a side panel, a topbar, marketplace support (Dokan, WCFM, MultiVendorX), dedicated LMS layout controls, AMP and PWA, and 301 customizer settings against free's 130.
- Product page: https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddyx-pro-theme/
- Changelog: https://wbcomdesigns.com/release-notes/buddyx-pro-theme/
- Download the latest
buddyx.zipfrom Releases, or install BuddyX from Appearance → Themes → Add New inside WordPress. - Activate the theme.
- Open Appearance → Customize to pick a style preset, set colors and typography, and toggle dark mode.
To customize safely, use a child theme:
- Download the child theme from https://github.com/vapvarun/buddyx-child-theme
- More on child themes: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/
- Documentation: https://docs.wbcomdesigns.com/docs/buddyx/
- Support: https://wordpress.org/support/theme/buddyx/
BuddyX is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (or later). See LICENSE for details. BuddyX is based on WP Rig, also released under GPL v3.0 (or later).