With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Follow this tip and you’ll eliminate one of the most common mistakes I see. Most site owners will commission the help of others to make their site better. These other people can be in charge of managing comments, writing posts, editing posts, doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) audits, developing, or doing technical support. The list goes on and on. You just need to make sure you’re limiting users’ access accordingly.

If you run a mommy blog, and you asked a friend and fellow mom to contribute an article to your site, should you make that mom a user account with the administrator role? Absolutely not! There is no reason for that person to have the ability to edit your site URL, change vital settings, ...

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