[Steve Bruner]

@tommyhoang glad to hear you got it working. The header widget is supposed to be where you put it. Just move it in your header.php file to where you want it to show.

[Steve Bruner]

@tommyhoang what says your “footer and header are ready to be used as widgets.”? Did you place the proper code in functions.php?

[Steve Bruner]

@tommyhoang– you don’t need step 2. You just need to place the code from step 3 into your header.php file where you want the widgets to show up. This article might help as well: http://digwp.com/2010/02/how-to-widgetize-wordpress-theme/

[Steve Bruner]

@tommyhoang– why not widgetize your header! http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

Make sure to do it in your BP child theme… don’t hack bp-default.

[Steve Bruner]

Now available, for your spelling pleasure:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/after-the-deadline-for-buddypress/

[Steve Bruner]

add the following in your child theme’s functions.php file;

`add_filter( ‘bp_search_form_enabled’, false );`

bye, bye, search box!