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Final Update:

After a bunch of time spent on this, I ended up needing to go into PHPMyAdmin and deactivating all plugins manually, which fixed the issue.

Sauce:
https://www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/disable-a-wordpress-plugin/

I was able to narrow it down to a combo issue, where a few plugins were the culprits after the caching.

I’ll be trying this plugin again later but for now ??

You may want to check and make sure your .htaccess file has the appropriate permissions.

If that doesn’t work, and it has the appropriate tags, make sure you check your server to make sure it’s strong enough to process that request. If possible, look into increasing your php.ini limits.

UPDATE:

I checked the WP-Settings.php file, and saw some other lines in there

if ( WP_CACHE && apply_filters( 'enable_loading_advanced_cache_dropin', false ) ) {
	// For an advanced caching plugin to use. Uses a static drop-in because you would only want one.
	WP_DEBUG ? include( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/cache.php' ) : @include( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/cache.php' );

	// Re-initialize any hooks added manually by advanced-cache.php
	if ( $wp_filter ) {
		$wp_filter = WP_Hook::build_preinitialized_hooks( $wp_filter );
	}
}

Which I removed. Back end is still where it was, but I wanted to share that I discovered this bit of code.

https://github.com/justintadlock/members/blob/master/readme.md#shortcodes