The Pro version of PublishPress 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
It is possible to control who can access these links by using the PublishPress Capabilities Pro plugin.
- After installing PublishPress Capabilities Pro, go to “Capabilities”, then “Admin Menus” in your WordPress admin area:
- 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.
- 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”.
Now when an Editor logs in to your site, they will not be able to see any Contact Form 7 menu links.
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.