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Email Address Obfuscation

Email Address Obfuscation prevents email harvesting by hiding email address appearing in your pages, while remaining visible to your site visitors.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.2.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 2.5 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update13 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations2K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 4 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Email Address Obfuscation version 1.2.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting bots, by converting email addresses characters to HTML entities. Hide email from Spam Bots using a shortcode [obfuscate_email] and built-in WordPress function antispambot().

Features

  • Obfuscate plain email address
  • Obfuscate href mailto link in HTML anchor element
  • Support for custom CSS class
  • Support for email subject

Usage

Obfuscate plain email address

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Create clickable email address

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Add CSS class to the HTML anchor element

com" link=true class="my-class another-class"]

Obfuscate email address with email subject

subject=My custom email subject']

Shortcode parameter

  • email required – Email address.
  • link optional – Set true if you want to create clickable email address.
  • class optional – Add space separated list of classes.
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • anti spam
  • email
  • obfuscate
  • obfuscation
  • protect
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.5 · PHP 5.6
Update activity13 Aug 20262mo ago

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