I got the responsibility for a wordpress page and been told that they had some issues with the page not being available several times already. After looking at

I got the responsibility for a wordpress page and been told that they had some issues with the page not being available several times already. After looking at the FTP, I've found out that the hoster locked down the page due to wordpress plugins which did not have been updated and turned into malware providers or something like that. The whole thing is a monster. It has almost 30 plugins for the most stupid thing (like scrolling text). So the first thing I did was updating it. Unfortunately it looked messed up afterwards. So I rolled back the backup and started updating it one by one. I was left with one plugin which I could not remove or it would break down parts of the design. So I'm again left with an possible problem for the future. The joke is: the page is mostly static. There is one single news section which has not been used for more than a year...I hate this thing...I wish I could give it to somebody to rebuild in plain HTML or something but the boss doesn't want it...