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it’s simply added to the footer area for what I would guess are perceived as seo concerns keeping it towards the end of the document and using poss abs to visually render it at top of page. There is nothing stopping you changing the add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin’) but I think that you need to do this in a functions file in a child theme if using one, you will need to remove the default action then ad a new one, that way your changes will be preserved. I would have thought you could add it to the do_action(‘bp_header’) hook that sits at the end of the div#header.