Free, built in BuddyX & Reign
BuddyNext + BuddyX & Reign
Pixel-clean layout and dark mode when BuddyNext runs on the BuddyX or Reign theme.
What it changes
Your community with BuddyX & Reign in it
Each of these is something a member can do the day you turn it on, and what it changes for whoever runs the place.
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Read community and media pages full-width, instead of boxed inside the theme’s content container.
What changes
The community stops looking like a plugin bolted into a page, which is usually the first thing that makes members treat it as second-class.
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Switch the site to dark mode and have the community follow on its own.
What changes
One toggle covers the whole site, so nobody is thrown by landing on a bright community page from a dark homepage.
How it works
The flow, step by step
- 1 When BuddyX is the active theme, the bridge marks BuddyNext and MediaVerse pages as full-width so the theme skips its container wrapper.
- 2 BuddyNext’s dark tokens respond to the theme’s dark toggle, so switching the site to dark switches the community too.
For developers
The bridge self-guards on the partner plugin and no-ops when it is absent. Key hooks: buddyx_is_full_width_page, get_template.
If BuddyX / Reign themes is not installed
This one keys off the active theme rather than a plugin, so it applies when BuddyX, BuddyX Pro or Reign is running and does nothing at all otherwise. On any other theme BuddyNext falls back to its own styling inside whatever container that theme provides, which works but will usually be boxed rather than full width.
What to check once it is on
Open a community page and a media page and confirm neither is boxed inside the theme container. Then switch the site to dark mode and check the feed, profile and messages follow rather than staying light. If one surface stays light while the rest go dark, that is a missing dark rule on that stylesheet, not a broken bridge.
BuddyX & Reign questions
- Does it work with Reign as well as BuddyX?
- Yes. The check covers BuddyX, BuddyX Pro and Reign, and the behaviour is the same on all three.
- What does it actually change?
- Layout and styling, nothing else. Community and media pages render full width, the header spacing for the bell, messages and avatar is corrected inside the theme header, and the sign-in screens run edge to edge. No data moves.
- Do my theme colours carry into BuddyNext?
- Not automatically. Dark mode follows the theme toggle, but the individual colours you set in the Customizer are not mapped onto BuddyNext tokens today. Set community colours in BuddyNext's own appearance settings.
- Do I need to turn it on?
- No, and there is no switch. It applies whenever one of those themes is active, because a theme bridge that could be left off would just mean a broken-looking community nobody diagnosed.
Turn it on
Setup
Automatic when BuddyX or Reign is the active theme. No setup, no toggle.