Vladimir Garagulya

CF7 protects admin menu with these meta capabilities:
Contact wpcf7_read_contact_forms
Contact Forms wpcf7_read_contact_forms
Add New wpcf7_edit_contact_forms
Integration wpcf7_manage_integration

and defines its custom post type ‘wpcf7_contact_form’ with the similar list of user capabilities:

'capabilities' => array(
	'edit_post' => 'wpcf7_edit_contact_form',
	'read_post' => 'wpcf7_read_contact_form',
	'delete_post' => 'wpcf7_delete_contact_form',
	'edit_posts' => 'wpcf7_edit_contact_forms',
	'edit_others_posts' => 'wpcf7_edit_contact_forms',
	'publish_posts' => 'wpcf7_edit_contact_forms',
	'read_private_posts' => 'wpcf7_edit_contact_forms',
)

You don’t see these capabilities at User Role Editor as they are not exist and not added automatically. CF7 maps them to the existing user capabilities this way:

add_filter( 'map_meta_cap', 'wpcf7_map_meta_cap', 10, 4 );

function wpcf7_map_meta_cap( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ) {
	$meta_caps = array(
		'wpcf7_edit_contact_form' => WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY,
		'wpcf7_edit_contact_forms' => WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY,
		'wpcf7_read_contact_form' => WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_CAPABILITY,
		'wpcf7_read_contact_forms' => WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_CAPABILITY,
		'wpcf7_delete_contact_form' => WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY,
		'wpcf7_delete_contact_forms' => WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY,
		'wpcf7_manage_integration' => 'manage_options',
		'wpcf7_submit' => 'read',
	);

	$meta_caps = apply_filters( 'wpcf7_map_meta_cap', $meta_caps );

	$caps = array_diff( $caps, array_keys( $meta_caps ) );

	if ( isset( $meta_caps[$cap] ) ) {
		$caps[] = $meta_caps[$cap];
	}

	return $caps;
}

Constants definition contains the answer why you can not use CF7 and posts/pages editing separately:

define( 'WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_CAPABILITY', 'edit_posts' );
define( 'WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY', 'publish_pages' );

But you can redefine CF7 meta caps using CF7 own filter ‘wpcf7_map_meta_cap’ (applied at the wpcf7_map_meta_cap() showed above) and solve your task.

Hi,

Try development version 4.58 (download it from “Advanced View”). It includes the requested update.

Hello!

Try to add edit_posts capability. Will it help?

If this issue is still actual, look at this article.

Create new role as a copy of administrator role, revoke unneeded capabilities, use it to grant for the restricted admin users.

Hi,

Default role(s) are assigned to a new user automatically only in case role ID is not sent to the WordPress user insertion API. Also default roles are pre-selected at the new user registration page at wp-admin. In case new user record is sent to the WordPress (by some plugin for example) with apparently pointed role ID, default role(s) settings are ignored.

Thanks for the information that it’s not a new installation, but updated one. Try to force a browser page refresh – Ctrl+F5 – in order page loads the newest version of JavaScript files. As a final step try to clear a browser cache.

Hi,

Generally, WordPress shows similar message when other user has the post opened for editing at the same time. Look if it’s not your case.