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Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers

Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version2.5.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 4.7 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update21 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installations90K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.9 / 5 from 94 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers version 2.5.5 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

Full site protection for your email addresses from spam-bots, email harvesters and other robots. No configuration needed.

It also protects phone numbers or any other text using our integrated [eeb_protect_content] shortcode or href attribute encoding.

Features

  • Full page protection for all of your emails
  • Instant results (No confiruation needed)
  • Protects mailto links, plain emails, email input fields, RSS feeds and much more
  • Protect phone number links, ftp, skype, file and other custom link attributes
  • Autmoatic protection technique detection (Our plugin chooses automatically the best protection technique for each email)
  • Exclude posts and pages from protection
  • Automatically convert plain emails to mailto-links
  • Automatically convert plain emails to png images
  • Supports rot13 encoing, escape encoding, CSS directions, entity encoding and much more
  • Deactivate CSS directions manually for browser backwards compatibility
  • Shortcode support: [eeb_protect_emails], [eeb_protect_content], [eeb_mailto], [eeb_form]
  • Template tag support: eeb_protect_emails(), eeb_protect_content(), eeb_mailto(), eeb_form()
  • Protect phone numbers (or any text or html)
  • Also supports special chars, like é, â, ö, Chinese characters etcetera
  • Use the Encoder Form to manually create encoded scripts

Compatibilities

  • The plugin works with mostly any theme and plugin. Some special ones need special treatment. Down below you can learn more about that.
  • Compatible with the Maintenance plugin from WP Maintenance
  • Divi Theme is fully integrated as well
  • Jetpack Image carousel is compatible as well

Free Website Check

We offer you a free tool to test if your website contains unprotected emails. You can use our website checker by clicking here

Easy to use

After activating the plugin all email addresses on your website will be protected out-of-the-box.

We also offer custom shortcodes and template functions to protect phone numbers or other text.

Support

  • Documentation – After plugin activation, check the help tab on the plugin options page
  • Documentation on wpemailencoder.com
  • FAQ

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Credits

  • Adam Hunter for the encode method ‘JavaScript Escape’ which is taken from his plugin Email Spam Protection
  • Tyler Akins for the encode method ‘JavaScript ASCII Mixer’
  • Title icon on Admin Options Page was made by Jack Cai
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • anti spam
  • encode
  • encrypt
  • hide
  • protect
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 7.4
Update activity21 Sept 20261mo ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version2.5.42.5.5
Version2.5.32.5.4
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.0.5
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