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Asked: 2026-05-24T10:47:10+00:00

When I set a cookie in a WordPress plugin, I get the headers already

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When I set a cookie in a WordPress plugin, I get the “headers already sent” error. Can someone suggest how I can fix this?

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/53/7742253/html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyten/header.php:11) in /home/content/53/7742253/html/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 692,693,694

my code:-

     if(isset($_REQUEST['id']) && !is_user_logged_in())

      {

         require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/registration.php' );


    $registration = get_option( 'users_can_register' );

       global $wpdb;

       $user_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT user_id FROM              

                  $wpdb->usermeta           WHERE 

                meta_key = 'id' AND meta_value =%s",$id) );

         if ( empty($user_id) ) 
              {

                 $wp_user_obj = get_user_by('email', $email);

                $user_id = $wp_user_obj->ID;

               }

               if ( $user_id)

                  {

                   wp_set_auth_cookie( $user_id );

                      wp_set_current_user( $user_id );

               if ( isset( $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] ) && !empty( 
           $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] ) ) 
            {

              wp_redirect( home_url() );

                 }
                 else 
               {

                wp_redirect(home_url() );

                 }

                   }      

                     else

                   {

                   $userdata = array();


                $user_id = wp_insert_user($userdata );

                 wp_new_user_notification($user_id,$user_pass);

                  if ( $user_id )
                     {

                         $creds = array();

                        $creds['user_login'] = $username;

                         $creds['user_password'] = $user_pass;

                          if ( !empty( $remember ) )
                            { 

                             $creds['remember'] = true;

                                 }

                    $user = wp_signon( $creds, true );  

                     update_usermeta( $user_id,'id',esc_attr( $_REQUEST['id']));

                 update_usermeta( $user_id,'fname',esc_attr( $_REQUEST['fname']));

                   update_usermeta( $user_id,'lname',$_REQUEST['lname']);

              update_usermeta( $user_id, 'email',esc_attr( $_REQUEST['email']) );

                 wp_redirect(home_url() );

               }

                }

               }    

             global $user_ID; $user = get_userdata( $user_ID );

           if(is_user_logged_in())
         {

                echo $user->user_login ; 

              } 



and heder.php line:-  `<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>`
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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re calling your set_cookies function too late. At the time you call it, output has already started. You need call it before any output has started, because cookies can not be set if output has already started (see as well: setcookieDocs).

    In your case before header.php line 11 is being executed.

    That’s merely before the theme get’s loaded.

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