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Hide Contact-Form-7 to other users from WordPress Dashboard [updated 2019]

Contact Form 7 • 04 Feb 2018

By Default the Contact-Form-7 in the WordPress Dashboard is visible to all the users. You can control this by adding a little code in your wp-config.php file. There are two options of codes.

Option 1: Show the contact form but hide the options
Option 2: Hide the contact form from the WordPress sidebar

Option 1

This option will show the form, so the other use can see the form and its shortcode in the main table. But when they try to access the form a message will display on the page. You are not allowed to edit this contact form.

Copy and paste this code in your wp-config.php file in your WordPress root directory.

/* Show the form but hide the options - Contact-Form-7 */
define( 'WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY', 'manage_options' );

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Contact-form-7 plugin page - image — **Figure 1**: Screenshot of Contact-Form-7 plugin page that cannot be accessed by another user.

Option 2

To hide the Contact-Form-7 from the WordPress side menubar to other users, Use this code. When the user login into the WordPress dashboard they will not see Contact-Form-7 from the sidebar.

/* Hide the form from the Dashboard - Contact Form 7 */
define( 'WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_CAPABILITY', 'manage_options' );

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Contact-form-7 is hidden from the dashboard - image — **Figure 2**: Screenshot of WordPress dashboard with **hidden Contact-Form-7 menu** for other users.

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