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title: Control Access to Contact Form 7 Admin Menus
description: "The Pro version of [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) allows you to block access to admin menu links in the Contact Form 7 plugin. This is useful because Contact Form 7 has very limited options for controlling who can access the admin screens. Contact Form…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/control-access-contact-form-7-admin-menus/"
updated: "2024-12-18"
category: "How-to Guides / Admin Menus"
---

# Control Access to Contact Form 7 Admin Menus

The Pro version of [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) allows you to block access to admin menu links in the Contact Form 7 plugin. This is useful because Contact Form 7 has very limited options for controlling who can access the admin screens.

Contact Form 7 is the most popular contact form plugin for WordPress. You can manage multiple contact forms, and easily customize each form and the emails it sends. Contact Form 7 supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and much more.

When you first install Contact Form 7, you'll see one top-level menu link, plus three sub-menus. All of these links are available to users in the Administrator role.

- Contact Forms
- Add New
- Integration

![Contact Form 7](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/contact-form-7.png)
Contact Form 7

It is possible to control who can access these links by using the [PublishPress Capabilities Pro](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) plugin.

- After installing [PublishPress Capabilities Pro](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities), go to "Capabilities", then "Admin Menus" in your WordPress admin area:

![Admin Menus Woocommerce](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/admin-menus-woocommerce.png)
Admin Menus Woocommerce

- In the top-left corner of this screen, choose the role that you want to edit. In the image below, I'm going to restrict access for the "Editor" role.

![Editor Role Menus](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/editor-role-menus-1024x467.png)
Editor Role Menus

- Scroll down and you can enter a red X for any menu link that you don't want users in the Editor role to access.
- Click "Save Changes".

![Editor Contact Form 7](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/editor-contact-form-7-1-1024x535.png)
Editor Contact Form 7 1

Now when an Editor logs in to your site, they will not be able to see any Contact Form 7 menu links.

![Editor Admin Menus](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/editor-admin-menus-1024x584.png)
Editor Admin Menus

This approach works for the core Contact Form 7 plugin and can also be used for add-on plugins such as Flamingo which records entries for Contact Form 7 forms.