If you are logged in, you can now send personal messages directly from another user's profile.  So you can click on their name under their profile picture and choose "send PM" and expect to work.

Hopefully a few of you can try it and report success or failure.

Good timing because we paid for Wordpress support last year, but aren't planning to for this year.  Our Webmaster was able to get them to fix this before our support subscription ran out.