Sitecore Tip: Content Author minimum roles
At a bare minimum, you want your content authors to have these OOTB roles: sitecore\Sitecore Client Advanced Publishing sitecore\Sitecore Client Designing sitecore\Sitecore Client Authoring You should also have custom roles to further classify your content authors, e.g.: Site Owner (Content Author "admin" for a specific site) Workflow Approver/Reader (to push/approve items through workflows) etc