BuddyPress.org

Good Morning,

WordPress 5.2
BuddyPress 4.3.0

I’m in the process of creating a multisite which will contain an existing BuddyPress site. Right now I’m just setting up the site. I’ve created a simple top site, then enabled BuddyPress. When I upload bp-custom.php the site starts to throw errors:

The plugin generated 3 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/navalw5/XXX.XXXXwargaming.com/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:7) in /home/navalw5/test3.navalwargaming.com/wp-includes/option.php on line 948

If I remove the bp-custom.php these errors go away.
This is the code in bp-custom:
<?
add_action( ‘init’, ‘remove_xprofile_links’ );
function remove_xprofile_links() {
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 9, 3 );
}
>?
Pretty standard and a direct copy from the production site, I was curious so I just uploaded a blank bp-custom. I still got the errors.

I had network activated BuddyPress, so I deactivated and then activated the plugin in the main site.

Still, have the error.

My intention is to have a multisite / BuddyPress installation. where members can be part of several or just one other department of the organization.

site/org1
site/org2
Site/org3

each site would have its own groups & forums

All the research seemed to indicate that BuddyPress / bbpress should be network activated.

wp-config. currently looks like:

define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘test3.navalwargaming.com’);
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’);
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );

I’m confused as to the error, should I be using the child theme’s function.php instead? Any help is greately appreciated.

Thanks