I really appreciate your help Prashant,
I am viewing the page in a different virtual machine using a subscriber account that I set up to test. There are two similar files, member-header.php and cover-image-header.php
This source code matches the member-header.php
<div id="item-header-avatar">
<noscript></noscript>
</div><!-- #item-header-avatar -->
<div id="item-header-content">
<h2 class="user-nicename">@clicken</h2>
<div class="item-meta">
<span class="activity">active right now</span>
</div><!-- #item-meta -->
<div class="member-header-actions action"> Test</div></div><!-- #item-header-content -->
member-header.php displays the #item-meta before the buttons, as did the test code you supplied.
<div id="item-header-avatar">
">
<?php bp_displayed_user_avatar( 'type=full' ); ?>
</div><!-- #item-header-avatar -->
<div id="item-header-content">
<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
<h2 class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php bp_nouveau_member_hook( 'before', 'header_meta' ); ?>
<?php if ( bp_nouveau_member_has_meta() ) : ?>
<div class="item-meta">
<?php bp_nouveau_member_meta(); ?>
</div><!-- #item-meta -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php bp_nouveau_member_header_buttons( array( 'container_classes' => array( 'member-header-actions' ) ) ); ?>
</div><!-- #item-header-content -->
cover-image-header.php would display the buttons above the #item-meta
<?php
/**
* BuddyPress - Users Cover Image Header
*
* @since 3.0.0
* @version 3.0.0
*/
?>
<div id="cover-image-container">
<div id="header-cover-image"></div>
<div id="item-header-cover-image">
<div id="item-header-avatar">
">
<?php bp_displayed_user_avatar( 'type=full' ); ?>
</div><!-- #item-header-avatar -->
<div id="item-header-content">
<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
<h2 class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php
bp_nouveau_member_header_buttons(
array(
'container' => 'ul',
'button_element' => 'button',
'container_classes' => array( 'member-header-actions' ),
)
);
?>
<?php bp_nouveau_member_hook( 'before', 'header_meta' ); ?>
<?php if ( bp_nouveau_member_has_meta() ) : ?>
<div class="item-meta">
<?php bp_nouveau_member_meta(); ?>
</div><!-- #item-meta -->
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- #item-header-content -->
</div><!-- #item-header-cover-image -->
</div><!-- #cover-image-container -->