What the hell is all that? Our site doesn’t SPAM anyone. We’re just frigging Wedding Officiants, for Pete’s sake!
Evidently your old developer was up to stuff or wasnt very good and used some bad plugins but if i was you i would back up content and bull doze then re build or just pay someone to do it for you,
looks like your site could do with some modernising or maybe just some better css work done
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?
I guess I need to keep training on WordPress. Can anyone recommend a good way to learn it?
There’s lots of good info here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
But, as Pioneer Valley Web Design posted above, it looks like your site has been hacked – and that’s something you do need to deal with. Start with the articles he posted and if you need to hire someone to help you get that cleaned up, Securi is well-regarded.
BTW, it’s quite possible that it was hacked because your site is running an outdated version of WP – 3.4.2 which is a major security risk. So you do need to get that updated as well – or your site may continue to be hacked.
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’m certainly sympathetic to your situation, but a hacked site is a serious problem… And yes, updating might mess up your current site, but leaving it as is will likely run into serious problems too. There’s lots of info about how to use WP – in the resources I linked as well as online in many other places, so if you want to learn and do it yourself, that’s possible. Here’s info about backing up:
See: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer on all that.
As to the original question, again, since that’s a custom site, it’s impossible to know how it’s set up, but one way to hide that button would be to ADD this to your CSS. If you have a custom CSS option, add it there, otherwise at the bottom of your style.css file should work.
.add {
display: none;
}
