Title: Cannot modify headers
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot modify headers

 *  [Twittrblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musiqcentral/)
 * (@musiqcentral)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-modify-headers-3/)
 * ok, I know this has been covered…. and I have searched and followed the advice,
   let me show you my issue now.
 * `Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output 
   started at /home/content/m/u/s/musiqcentral/html/wp-content/themes/Sea/header.
   php:2) in /home/content/m/u/s/musiqcentral/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on 
   line 850`
 * is the error.
 *     ```
       <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
       <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
       <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
   
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>">
   
       <title>
       <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
       <?php if(is_home()) { ?>
        - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
       <?php } ?>
       <?php if(is_single()) { ?>
       <?php wp_title(); ?>
       <?php } ?>
       <?php if(is_404()) { ?>
        - Page Not Found
       <?php } ?>
       <?php if(is_search()) { ?>
        - Search Results for: <?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>
       <?php } ?>
       </title>
   
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
       <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
       <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
   
       <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/heightMatch.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
       <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/topmenudynamic.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
       <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/dropdown.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   
       <?php wp_head(); ?>
   
       </head>
       <body>
   
       <div id="container">
       <!-- Include the Google Friend Connect javascript library. -->
       <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/script/friendconnect.js"></script>
       <!-- Define the div tag where the gadget will be inserted. -->
       <div id="div-1234521535868"></div>
       <!-- Render the gadget into a div. -->
       <script type="text/javascript">
       var skin = {};
       skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = '#cccccc';
       skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = '#e0ecff';
       skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
       skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
       skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
       skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
       skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
       skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
       skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = '#7777cc';
       skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#666666';
       skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = '#333333';
       skin['POSITION'] = 'top';
       skin['DEFAULT_COMMENT_TEXT'] = '- add your comment here -';
       skin['HEADER_TEXT'] = 'Comments';
       google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl('/' /* location of rpc_relay.html and canvas.html */);
       google.friendconnect.container.renderSocialBar(
        { id: 'div-1234521535868',
          site: '06099073935428622981',
          'view-params':{"scope":"SITE","features":"video,comment","showWall":"true"}
        },
         skin);
       </script>
   
       <!-- header -->
       <div id="header">
       <br />
       	<div id="header_logo">
       	<h1 class="blogtitle"><a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
       	<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
       	</div>
   
       	<div id="header_ad">
       	<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/468_60.php"); ?>
       	</div>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
       <br />
       <!-- end -->
   
       <!-- page menu and search -->
       <div id="top">
   
       	<ul id="pagemenu">
       	<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=post_date&title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
       	<li><a href="http://www.twittrblog.com/forum">Forums</a></li>
       	</ul>
   
       	<div id="searchbar">
       	<form method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" class="searchform" style="float: right;">
       	<fieldset>
       	<label class="searchlabel"><?php _e('Search Blog'); ?></label>
       	<input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" class="searchterm" />
       	<input type="submit" value="Search" class="searchbutton" />
       	</fieldset>
       	</form>
       	</div>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
       <!-- end -->
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
   
       <!-- category menu -->
       <div id="bar">
   
       	<ul id="catmenu">
       	<li<?php if(!is_category() && !is_page()) { ?> class="current-cat"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
       	<?php wp_list_categories('hide_empty=0&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
       	</ul>
   
       	<div id="toprss"><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">SUBSCRIBE TO RSS FEED</a></div>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * is my header… I can’t fix this issue line two it the language attributes line…
   I tried using straight html here but it just moved down to line 6

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-modify-headers-3/#post-988582)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Answers-Troubleshooting#Headers_already_sent](http://codex.wordpress.org/Answers-Troubleshooting#Headers_already_sent)
 *  Thread Starter [Twittrblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musiqcentral/)
 * (@musiqcentral)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-modify-headers-3/#post-988611)
 * Samboll.. I did this…. i stated this in my post….
 * try going to my site [http://www.twittrblog.com](http://www.twittrblog.com) and
   try to register… I am using part of prologue theme (automattic) in the top of
   the index… this is when i get the error when i try to post from this
 *  Thread Starter [Twittrblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musiqcentral/)
 * (@musiqcentral)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-modify-headers-3/#post-988820)
 * Here is my index page with the prologue Twitter like feature. I removed a comment
   within that called the header but still this doesn’t solve the problem
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <div id="content">
   
       <div id="postform">
       <?php
       if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] && !empty( $_POST['action'] ) && $_POST['action'] == 'post' ) {
       	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() )
       		auth_redirect();
   
       	if( !current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) {
       		wp_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/' );
       		exit;
       	}
   
       	check_admin_referer( 'new-post' );
   
       	$user_id		= $current_user->user_id;
       	$post_content	= $_POST['posttext'];
       	$tags			= $_POST['tags'];
   
       	$char_limit		= 40;
       	$post_title		= strip_tags( $post_content );
       	if( strlen( $post_title ) > $char_limit ) {
       		$post_title = substr( $post_title, 0, $char_limit ) . ' ... ';
       	}
   
       	$post_id = wp_insert_post( array(
       		'post_author'	=> $user_id,
       		'post_title'	=> $post_title,
       		'post_content'	=> $post_content,
       		'tags_input'	=> $tags,
       		'post_status'	=> 'publish'
       	) );
   
       	wp_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/' );
       	exit;
       }
   
       if( current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) {
       	require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/post-form.php';
       }
       ?>
       </div>
       	<div id="column">
   
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
       	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       	<div class="post">
       		<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       		<div class="postinfo">
       		<div class="info">Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> on <?php the_time('j F, Y'); ?></div>
       		<div class="commentnum"><?php comments_popup_link('No comments yet', '1 comment so far', '% Comments'); ?></div><div class="clear"></div>
       		</div>
       		<div class="category">This item was filled under <?php the_category(', '); ?></div>
       		<div class="entry">
   
       		<?php the_content('Continue reading...'); ?><div class="clear"></div>
   
       		</div>
       		<?php the_tags('<div class="tags">Tagged with: ', ', ', '</div><div class="clear"></div>'); ?>
       	</div>
       	<?php endwhile; ?>
   
       	<!-- Plugin Navigation -->
       	<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?>
       	<!-- End -->
   
       	<?php else : ?>
       	<div class="post">
       	<h1>No posts were found.</h1>
       	Sorry! the page you are looking for does not exist.
   
       	<h3>Blog Search</h3>
       	<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/searchform.php"); ?>
       	</div>
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
       	</div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * —————————————-
    and my newest header.php —————————————-
 *     ```
       <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
       <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
       <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>">
       <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
       <?php if(is_home()) { ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
       <?php } ?>
       <?php if(is_single()) { ?>
       <?php wp_title(); ?>
       <?php } ?>
       <?php if(is_404()) { ?>
        - Page Not Found
       <?php } ?>
       <?php if(is_search()) { ?>
        - Search Results for: <?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>
       <?php } ?>
       </title>
   
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
       <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
       <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
   
       <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/heightMatch.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
       <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/topmenudynamic.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
       <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/dropdown.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
       <?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>
       <?php wp_head(); ?>
       <?php if ( strstr( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'iPhone' ) ) { ?>
       <meta name="viewport" content="width=320" />
       <style type="text/css">
       #header_img, #sidebar, #postbox .avatar {
       	display: none;
       }
   
       #wrapper, #main {
       	width: 320px;
       	padding: 0;
       	float: none;
       	margin-left: 3px;
       }
   
       h1 {
       	font-size: 2em;
       	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
       	margin-left: 0;
       	margin-top: 5px;
       	margin-bottom: 10px;
       }
   
       h2 {
       	font-size: 1.2em;
       	font-weight: bold;
       	color: #555;
       }
   
       #postbox form {
       	padding: 5px;
       }
   
       #postbox textarea#posttext {
       	width: 300px;
       	height: 50px;
       	border: 1px solid #c6d9e9;
       	margin-bottom: 10px;
       	padding: 2px;
       	font: 1.4em/1.2em "Lucida Grande",Verdana,"Bitstream Vera Sans",Arial,sans-serif;
       }
       #postbox input#tags,  #commentform #comment {
       	font-size: 1.2em;
       	padding: 2px;
       	border: 1px solid #c6d9e9;
       	width: 300px;
       	margin-left: 0;
       }
   
       #postbox label {
       	color: #333;
       	display: block;
       	font-size: 1.2em;
       	margin-bottom: 4px;
       	margin-left: 0;
       	font-weight: bold;
       }
   
       #postbox input#submit {
       	font-size: 1.2em;
       	margin-left: 250px;
       	margin-top: 5px;
       }
   
       #main ul {
       	list-style: none;
       	margin-top: 16px;
       	margin-left: 0;
       }
   
       #wpcombar {
       	display: none;
       }
       body {
       	padding-top: 0;
       }
       </style>
       <?php } ?>
   
       </head>
       <body>
   
       <div id="container">
       <!-- Include the Google Friend Connect javascript library. -->
       <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/script/friendconnect.js"></script>
       <!-- Define the div tag where the gadget will be inserted. -->
       <div id="div-1234521535868"></div>
       <!-- Render the gadget into a div. -->
       <script type="text/javascript">
       var skin = {};
       skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = '#cccccc';
       skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = '#e0ecff';
       skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
       skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
       skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
       skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
       skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
       skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
       skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = '#7777cc';
       skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#666666';
       skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = '#333333';
       skin['POSITION'] = 'top';
       skin['DEFAULT_COMMENT_TEXT'] = '- add your comment here -';
       skin['HEADER_TEXT'] = 'Comments';
       google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl('/' /* location of rpc_relay.html and canvas.html */);
       google.friendconnect.container.renderSocialBar(
        { id: 'div-1234521535868',
          site: '06099073935428622981',
          'view-params':{"scope":"SITE","features":"video,comment","showWall":"true"}
        },
         skin);
       </script>
   
       <!-- header -->
       <div id="header">
   
       	<div id="header_logo">
       	<h1 class="blogtitle"><a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
       	<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
       	</div>
   
       	<div id="header_ad">
       	<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/468_60.php"); ?>
       	</div>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
   
       <!-- end -->
   
       <!-- page menu and search -->
       <div id="top">
   
       	<ul id="pagemenu">
       	<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=post_date&title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
       	<li><a href="http://www.twittrblog.com/forum">Forums</a></li>
       	</ul>
   
       	<div id="searchbar">
       	<form method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" class="searchform" style="float: right;">
       	<fieldset>
       	<label class="searchlabel"><?php _e('Search Blog'); ?></label>
       	<input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" class="searchterm" />
       	<input type="submit" value="Search" class="searchbutton" />
       	</fieldset>
       	</form>
       	</div>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
       <!-- end -->
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
   
       <!-- category menu -->
       <div id="bar">
   
       	<ul id="catmenu">
       	<li<?php if(!is_category() && !is_page()) { ?> class="current-cat"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
       	<?php wp_list_categories('hide_empty=0&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
       	</ul>
   
       	<div id="toprss"><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">SUBSCRIBE TO RSS FEED</a></div>
   
       <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Twittrblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musiqcentral/)
 * (@musiqcentral)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-modify-headers-3/#post-988853)
 * sorry for the bump, but I have been waiting for a response and resolution, I 
   have followed the codex to a tee is there ANY thing else that it can be?

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 * Last reply from: [Twittrblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musiqcentral/)
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