Transferring the Members' Area to WordPress

Our Members' Area is still down (see yesterday's post). This does not look good. Server problems don't usually last this long. We can't afford this sort of unprovoked malfunction. Our membership software (Memberkit) was always buggy and unfortunately the developers have long since lost interest and stopped developing it, or providing updates and support (let alone ironing out the bugs). I can only assume that one of our members did something while creating or updating their profile that coincided precisely with a server glitch or outage, which caused the system to crash and burn. It may even have been one of the many bugs that overwhelmed the whole system. I just don't know and I can't do anything to fix it. At the time of purchase, just over three years ago, the Memberkit software seemed ideal (if expensive). But the trouble was that there were not enough users. There was a rather sketchy and out-of-date User Guide, but apart from that, once the 90-day support ran out, I was on my own. The users' forum had too few participants to be of help, and one's questions remained unanswered and problems unresolved. The time has come to migrate to WordPress, with its much larger market share. According to Wikipedia at the time of writing, WordPress is used on 60 million web sites. I have already installed it on our server. And there are loads of tutorials and manuals out there to help me get started, and plug-ins for every conceivable application. Reconstruction work will start as soon as I can find time to build what we need. Our new Members' Area will undoubtedly have a quite different look and feel. Perhaps it will have even more functionality than what we had before. But there is every chance that it will be more reliable. Of course, this only affects members' listings on the website (headshots and biographies etc). Nothing else about DepList is affected, and messaging and advertising continue to function as normal.