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title: Contact Form 7 Capabilities
description: The Contact Form 7 plugin is one of the most popular contact form plugins in WordPress. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form…
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/contact-form-7-capabilities/"
updated: "2026-10-14"
category: WordPress Permissions / WordPress Plugins
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# Contact Form 7 Capabilities

The Contact Form 7 plugin is one of the most popular contact form plugins in WordPress.

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

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## About Contact Form 7 Plugin Capabilities

The Contact Form 7 plugin use a core WordPress capability to control user access:

- [manage_options](https://publishpress.com/links/manage_options)

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## How to Give Contact Form 7 Capabilities to User Roles

If you use the [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) plugin, you can choose which user roles have access to the Contact Form 7 plugin. Go to the "Capabilities" screen and click the "Admin" tab. You will be able to grant this capability to a new user role.

![Wordfence plugin capabilities](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/manage-options-1024x480.png)

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## Helpful link for Contact Form 7 Capabilities

- [The official Contact Form 7 plugin page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/).