sandywp / plugins / email-address-encoder
Email Address Encoder
A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.
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v1.0.25 100,000+ installs WP 2.0+ PHP 5.3+
What you get inside
4 screens-
Settings: Configure the plugin to your needs.
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Protection: This is how email addresses will look like under the hood.
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[Premium] Hardened protection: A preview of JavaScript and CSS based techniques
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[Premium] Phone number protection using polymorphous ROT47/CSS
About this plugin
A lightweight plugin that protects plain email addresses and mailto links from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities. Has an effect on the posts, pages, comments, excerpts, text widgets and other filtered content. Works without JavaScript — just simple spam protection.
To see whether all your email addresses are properly protected, use the free page scanner tool.
Other content (like phone numbers) can be protected using [encode] shortcode:
[encode]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]
[encode link="tel:+15551234567"]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]
Premium Features
- Full-page protection that catches all email addresses
- Hardened protection using JavaScript and CSS techniques
- Improved phone number protection
- Built-in plugin support for ACF, Jetpack, WooCommerce and many others
Check out the Premium version of Email Address Encoder.
Questions
- What does this plugin do?
This plugin searches for email addresses using WordPress filters like
the_content,widget_textand others. Found email addresses are encoded using decimal and hexadecimal HTML entities, which obfuscates the email addresses to protect it from being read by most email-harvesting robots.Alternatively, you can use the
[encode]shortcode:[encode]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]- How can I make sure the plugin works?
You can use the “Page Scanner” found under Settings -> Email Encoder to see whether all your email addresses are protected. Alternatively, you can manually look at the “page source” of your site.
Please note: Chrome’s Developer Tools, Safari’s Web Inspector and others automatically decode decimal and hexadecimal entities. You need to look at the “plain HTML source code”.
- How can I filter other parts of my site?
This guide will help you encode all email addresses that aren’t caught.
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