acoustictherapy

I appreciate all of your input. Getting a pro designer to help clean up my site costs $400 (at least), which is totally out of reach right now, so I guess I’m back to Square One.

I also was told that just upgrading to the newest version of WP could kill my site if the plug-ins I’m using aren’t compatible, and since the website is our business, and still seems to be working, I’m not about to chance that just now.

There’s a lot of good information on what to do if the site is hacked. The problem is that I don’t know now to do the procedures they suggest, like backing up the website files, etc. I used to be able to do this when it was all straight HTML, but I’m beginning to think it was a mistake to let my developer use WordPress for the new site, since I knew if he disappeared, I’d be SOL.

I’d love to pay someone to do all that, but our current financial situation is just too grim. The guys I’ve spoken to want $200-300 per month just to maintain the site – it only cost me $350 to create it!

You make it sound easy, and I’m sure that to you, it is…but when it comes to WordPress, I’m still pretty much clueless. As far as modernizing, the site was only completed about 18 months ago, and that was the main reason we did it then. I’m afraid it will have to get by being as modern as it is now, at least for awhile.

I guess I need to keep training on WordPress. Can anyone recommend a good way to learn it?

What the hell is all that? Our site doesn’t SPAM anyone. We’re just frigging Wedding Officiants, for Pete’s sake!