Clean House!
Over time your WordPress installation can accumulate plugins, themes, and even users that are no longer needed. If you’re not using a plugin, then deactivate it and get it off your server. The same goes for themes. You can delete plugins and themes right from the admin, which is a great feature.
Also, don’t keep users around if they aren’t logging in and doing work for your site. If you have authors who stop in once in a while, or developers that you only hire when you need them, then change their email address and password while they’re on holiday.
You need to make sure to change the email of the user you’re revoking access from(this because WordPress has an email-based password recovery system. So even if you change the password, ...
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