Okay, turns out the entire problem was solved by simply deactivating the “Automatically check for new items while viewing the activity stream” buddypress setting.
Yep, the issue is not with the theme because the problem still occurs when I use 2019. This was on of the first things I did, when I thought the problem was with the theme.
WP engine support did fully uncache that page, but nothing happened.
An alternative solution to getting this to work would be to disable the “public messaging” feature entirely. The initial reason I found this problem is because public messaging takes you to an activity form that starts with @user (whoever you are messaging). If I can’t get the activity form to appear, then I would rather just remove the feature. Is there any simple way to do that?
Sorry for the error code dump. According the admins of wpengine there is no minification implemented.
The theme I am using (woffice) uses BuddyPress and has thousands of installs that work just fine. This error occurs with nothing but a fresh install of the theme and no other plugins.
Any other thoughts? To me it seems that there is some interaction between BuddyPress code and wpengine, but I really don’t have the technical background to figure it out.
