You can install the theme automatically or manually. It’s better to install Reign on a fresh WordPress installation.

Manual Installation

Extract the zipped package downloaded from Wbcom Designs to your desktop. In the extracted package you will find reign-theme.zip which is the WordPress theme file.
You can install the theme one of two ways:

WordPress

Navigate to Appearance > Themes in your WordPress administration panel.
Click the Add New button at the top of the page.
Click the Upload theme button at the top of the page.
Select the theme .zip file in the theme package downloaded from Wbcom Designs and click Install Now.

FTP

Connect to your website host using your FTP client.
Go to your default WordPress themes folder (/wp-content/themes/) and upload the non-zipped theme folder into that folder (/wp-content/themes/).
Activation
After uploading the theme, you must preview and activate it.

Missing stylesheet issue

While installing the theme manually, you may see the “The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.” message.

Don’t worry. If you see this message, it means you’ve uploaded a wrong theme’s file (actually, you’re trying to upload the main theme’s file containing the theme, its plugins, documentation, etc.)

Please, open this .zip file, find the theme’s .zip file in it, and use it instead.

Download the Reign Child theme

Before making changes to the theme code, we recommend that you install a child theme. This ensures that your changes won’t be lost when updating to a new version of Reign.

Not sure how child themes work or why you should use one? We have a blog post in our archives that might help clarify things!

• Download and install the theme
• Start by downloading the Reign child theme.
• Navigate to Appearance → Themes and click ADD NEW.
• Click UPLOAD THEME.
• Click BROWSE and choose the file you just downloaded, then click INSTALL NOW.
• Once it is installed, click ACTIVATE.

WordPress considers a child theme to be an entirely separate theme from the parent with regard to theme options. If you have configured options for the parent theme in the Customizer before installing the child theme, these options will not carry over to the child. You can either configure the options again for the child theme or try to migrate the theme options.

1. BuddyPress (recommended)
   
2. Elementor (recommended)
   
3. Wbcom Essential (optional only if your are willing to use elementor page builder)
4. BP Create Group Type (optional with BuddyPress )
5. BuddyPress Activity Social Share (optional with BuddyPress )
6. WordPress Social Login (optional with BuddyPress )
7. bbPress and rtMedia for WordPress (optional with BuddyPress )
8. bbPress ( recommended )

To configure topbar navigate to the

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Desktop Header >> Top Bar.
You will have the following options:

Enable Topbar – Allows you to enable or disable topbar for your site.

Disable Topbar on mobile view – Allows you to disable topbar for your site on mobile view.

Topbar Type – Allows you to select default theme topbar or topbar made using Elementor.

Info Links – Allows you to add the link title, link URL and an icon. Fontawesome classes are used to set icons. Check https://fontawesome.com/ for further assistance.

Social Links – Allows you to add the social link title, social link URL and an icon. Fontawesome classes are used to set icons. Check https://fontawesome.com/ for further assistance.

Background Color – Allows you to choose a background colour for topbar.

Text Color – Allows you to choose a text colour.

Text Hover Color – Allows you to choose a text hover colour.

We also give you an option to create custom topbar with Elementor, To create a top bar with Elementor refer next point.

We have added default topbar designs and you can easily create new and use it from customizer settings.

Add new Elementor Topbar Designs:

Step1: Navigate to Reign Settings >> Header.

Step 2: Create a New Header.

Step 3: Select Header Type as Topbar.

Step 4: Publish once and start editing as Elementor.

Step 5: Save your design changes and it will be available inside customizer to set as global topbar for all pages.

Step 6: Save you design changes and it will be available inside customiser to set as global topbar for all pages.

How to change separator of topbar?
For changing separator of topbar, you have to apply following custom CSS code inside
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Additional CSS

.reign-header-top .header-top-left span {
border: none;
}
.reign-header-top .header-top-left span:not(:first-child):before {
content: “*”;
padding-right: 10px;
}

You can change the value of content accordingly. Here you can also set a font awesome icon by placing the icon’s Unicode inside content value. You will get the Unicode by visiting the following link:
https://fontawesome.com/icons

Reign Theme has default ready to use header styles.

You can enable anyone of them from customizer settings

Customizing >> Desktop Header >>Layout

You can find this inside  Customize >> Desktop Header >> Main Menu

Primary Menu Font Style – Allows you to select font properties for a primary menu of the site.

Text Hover Color – Allows you to choose a text hover color.

Text Active – ColorAllows you to choose a text active color.

Background Hover Color – Allows you to choose a background hover color.

Background Active Color – Allows you to choose a background active color.

Enable ‘More’ menus wrap in header menu – Allows you to enable or disable ‘More’ menus options for header menu.

You will find the setting inside Customize >> Desktop Header >> Sub Menu

Background Color – Allows you to choose a background color for sub menu.

Sub Menu Font – Allows you to select font properties for sub-menu of site.

Select Font Family with Variant

It also allows to download font-family to server instead of using the Google CDN.

Text Hover Color – Allows you to choose a text hover color.

Background Hover Color – Allows you to choose a background hover color.

You can find options at Customize >> Desktop Header >> Sticky Menu

You will find the corresponding option by navigating through

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Site Identity.

You will find the corresponding option at:

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Sub Header

You will find the following options:
Sub Header Height (px): Allows you to set the height of subheader in pixels.
Header Image Background Color – Allows you to set the background colour of the header image section. Note that this will only reflect if there is no image.
Header Image Overlay Color – Allows you to set the image overlay colour.
Header Image Text Color – Allows you to set the text colour of the header image section.
Enable Breadcrumb – Allows you to enable or disable the breadcrumb option.
Page Header – Allows you to enable/disable page sub-header at single post type pages.
Enable Header Image – Allows you to enable/disable sub header image at single post type pages.
Sub Header Image – Allows you to select page header image for single custom post type page.
Switch Header Image With Featured Image – This will show post featured image on top header section at single post page and featured image will be removed from post content.

From reign 2.3.0 you will get more customised cart icon. A single cart for both the products whether it is of WooCommerce or EDD. As, usual you can add the cart icon from
Dashboard >> Appearance >> customize >> Layout >> Manage Icons Options.

You can now make your site more appealing with all new reign color scheme options. From version 2.3.0 onwards you will get palettes of tonal color options to dig from as per your choices.

You will get the option inside:
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> colors.

Here, you will get the following options to play around.
Color Scheme – Allows you to select the color scheme for your site.
If you don’t want any of the listed options on the color scheme section then you can create your own by following options.
Body Background Color – Allows you to choose a body text color for a site.
Body Text Color – Allows you to choose a body text color for a site.
Sections Background Color – Allows you to choose a sections background color for a site.
Theme Color – Allows you to choose a primary, active color for a site.
Headings Color – Allows you to choose a headings color for a site.
Link Color – Allows you to choose a link’s color for a site.
Link Hover Color – Allows you to choose a hover color for links of a site.
Button Text Color – Allows you to choose a button text color for a site.
Button Text Hover Color – Allows you to choose a button text hover color for a site.
Button Background Color – Allows you to choose a button background color for your site.
Button Background Hover Color – Allows you to choose a button background hover color for your site.
Accent Color – Allows you to choose a color for the links on the content area of the site.
Accent Hover Color – Allows you to choose hover color of the links on the content area of the site.
Border Color – Allows you to choose site border color.
HR Color – Allows you to choose an hr color for a site.

Set a background image for your site. You will find the option inside
Appearance >> Customize >> Background Image.

For blog page styling simply head towards
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Blog.

There are two options for blog styling listed below:
1) Styling blog archive page:

• Layout – Allows you to choose a layout for all archive pages.
• Visibility for header image – You have an option to enable and disable the same.
• Blog Header Image – Allows you to set page header image for a blog page.
• Blog Listing Layout – Select your log listing layout here. We have the option to choose from 4 different views.
• Excerpt Length (words) – Set the number of words you want to show as an excerpt.

2) Styling single blog page:

• Layout – Allows you to choose a layout for all single post pages.
• Visibility for page header – Allows you to enable or disable the header from single post pages.
• Visibility for header image – You have an option to enable and disable the same.
• Page Header Image – Allows you to set page header image for single post page.
• Switch header image with a featured image – This will show post featured image on top header section and featured image will be removed from post content.
• Post Meta Alignment – Select alignment for post-meta information on a single post page.

For single page styling simply head towards Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Page >> Single. You will have the following option:

• Layout – Allows you to choose a layout to display for all single post pages.
• Hide Page Header – Allows you to hide page header for this post type.
• Enable Header Image – Allows you to enable or disable the header image.
• Page Header Image – Allows you to set page header image for single post page.

You can configure the menu from either of the following locations:
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Menu. or
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Menu.

Here we are exploring the first option:

Settings (You will find the settings icon beside the menu heading), you will have the following option inside settings.
Show advanced menu properties: You find following options as soon as you checkmark these options these will display inside each menu to set accordingly.
Link Target
Title Attribute
CSS Classes
Link Relationship (XFN)
Description
Create a new menu: You can create a new menu by giving a name and by specifying the display location.
Menu Locations: Your theme can display menus in 2 locations primary and user profile, you can set the same from here.

You can configure the widgets from either of the following locations:
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Widgets. or
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets.

Here we are exploring the first option:
Here widgets will display according to the page you are currently viewing you will see the following message:
“Your theme has 6 other widget areas, but this particular page doesn’t display them. You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages”.
Now you can add your desired widgets at a particular location by “Add new widgets” option.

You can configure the homepage settings from either of the following locations:
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Homepage Settings. or
Dashboard >> Settings >> Readings.
Here we are exploring the first option:
You will get two options
Your latest posts.
A static page.
You can choose the content of the homepage of your site from above two options. It can be the list of posts in reverse chronological order (classic blog), or a fixed/static page. To set a static homepage, you first need to create two Pages. One will become the homepage, and the other will be where your posts are displayed.

A theme also provides an amazing option for styling your default WordPress login screen you can find the option inside:

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> WordPress Login Screen.

Custom Logo: Select custom logo to replace default WordPress logo.
Background Image: Select image to set as background image.
Login Screen Background Color: Select colour to set as a background colour.
Login Form Background Color: Select colour to set as a background colour for the login form.
Login Form Text Color: Select colour to set for text in Login Form.
Login Form Button Color: Select colour to set for button colour in Login Form.
Custom CSS: In case you need any custom CSS to apply on Login Screen, write it here.

You can find the corresponding option at:

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Additional CSS

Here you can add your own CSS code here to customize the appearance and layout of your site. Learn more about CSS

For setting favicon, site title and tagline of the website you have to navigate through

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Site Identity.

You will find the corresponding option inside

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> General >> Typography.

You will find the following options:
Body Font
Heading H1- Heading H6
For all the above seven elements you will get the following options to change accordingly.

• Font Family
• Variant
• Font Size
• Line Height
• Letter Spacing
• Text Align
• Text Transform
• Color

You will also get a check mark to download font-family to a server instead of using the Google CDN.

You will find the corresponding option at:

Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> General >> Layouts

You will find the following options:
Pre Content Loader – You have the option to enable or disable the same, it will allow you to show loader before loading content.

Site Layout – Allows you to select full-width or Boxed-layout.

Sticky Sidebar – Allows you to enable or disable the sticky sidebar.

Store Template files

dokan/store.php
dokan/store-reviews.php
dokan/store-lists.php
dokan/store-lists-loop.php
dokan/store-header.php

Reviews Template files

dokan/review/listing.php
dokan/review/listing-table-tr.php

Product Template files

dokan/products/products-listing.php

Order Template Files

dokan/orders/listing.php

[rda_dokan_vendors]

count – Determines the number of results to display. Default returns 6.

per_row – Determines the number of items to show per row. Default is 3.

show_featured_only – set to 1 to enable. Default is false

enable_slider – set to 1 to enable slider. Default is without slider.

layout – Default is ’layout-type-1’. 4 layouts available.

selected_vendors – Display only a specific vendor. Use the vendor’s ID. You can list multiple vendors by separating IDs with commas.

[rda_dokan_store_listing]

per_page – Determines the number of results to display. Default returns 10.

per_row – Determines the number of items to show per row. Default is 3.

featured – set to ‘yes’ ’to enable. Default is false

enable_slider – set to 1 to enable slider. Default is without slider.

selected_vendors – Display only a specific vendor. Use the vendor’s ID. You can list multiple vendors by separating IDs with commas.

render_rda_dokan_store_listing()

rda-shortcodes/class-reign-dokan-shortcodes.php

function : render_rda_dokan_store_listing
apply_filters( ‘rda_dokan_store_listing_per_page’, $defaults );
This filter can be used to alter args for shortcode rda_dokan_store_listing.

reign_dokan_locate_template()

core/reign-dokan-functions.php

function : reign_dokan_locate_template
apply_filters( ‘reign_dokan_locate_template’, $template, $template_name, $template_path, $default_path );
This filter can be used to locate template to override files.