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@tommyhoang “headers already sent error” usually means that there’s space before the opening ?php or after closing ? tags required in functions.php just like it is in bp-custom.php

What the code above […]

@tommyhoang, the major benefit of creating a child theme is so that when the parent theme gets updated, the customizations that were made won’t be lost. The child theme’s style.css is where the CSS […]

@tommyhoang use language file to change the text or add this to your functions.php file
`class Tommys_Translation_Mangler {
function filter_gettext($translation, $text, $domain) {
$translations = […]

@tommyhoang – If you’re using that tutorial, remove any custom CSS you may have for the header and everything should work out fine.

@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.

@tommyhoang you can remove that line from the relevant file in your child theme, probably something like groups> forum> single.php although you’ll need to check that file name

== adding the line: define(‘BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN’,true); – but that doesnt work either. in fact that line replaces the admin bar at the top of my site. ==

@tommyhoang Your bp-custom.php should contain […]

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

@tommyhoang Again, this is a bug in WordPress core. Not BuddyPress. It’s not been fixed into WordPress yet; look at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16744

@tommyhoang, yes, there wont be bacompat with 1.2.x branch. If somebody wants to pick it up, I will help as much I can.