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Pixeline’s Email Protector

Write email addresses without worrying about spambots and email harvesters.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.5.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 2.7 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update29 Oct 20263d ago
Active installations900Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.3 / 5 from 8 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Pixeline’s Email Protector version 1.5.0 as active, updated 3d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

This plugin provides an unobtrusive yet efficient protection against email harvesters / spambots.

com”) without exposing them to spam email harvesters. The plugin takes care of the obfuscation, implementing a graceful degradation technique focusing on usability so as to protect your email addresses from harvesters while keeping them usable to your human visitors.

com</span>.

If javascript is available, it will display a clickable link and display the original email to the human user. Maximum usability, maximum protection.

Please rate the plugin if you like it.

Usage

Write your email addresses inside your posts and pages as usual. 9% of the time), the original email address will be displayed as a clickable mailto: link. For example:

com. How are you today?

will become

com.

Additionally, you can specify what the mailto: link should look like by sticking a parenthesis inside of which you put the visible link text, like this:

com(John Doe). How are you today?

will become

com.

You can also write the link yourself, with whatever markup you like. An anchor whose

visible text is not the address is kept exactly as you wrote it — classes, target, rel,

nested markup and all — and only loses its href until the script hands it back:

com">Get in touch</a>

will become

Get in touch.

An anchor whose visible text IS the address — what editors produce when you paste one

into the visual editor — is still replaced by the protected span above.

inside a theme

php for example), you can use the function safe_email() like this:

com');

Theme-safe alternative (plugin can be disabled)

php) and call that wrapper everywhere instead of calling safe_email() directly.

if (! function_exists( 'theme_safe_email' ) ) { function theme_safe_email( $email, $label = '' ) { $email = sanitize_email( $email ); if ( '' === $email ) { return ''; }

if ( function_exists( 'safe_email' ) ) { $payload = $email. == $label? '('.

$label. ')': '' ); return safe_email( $payload ); }

== $label? $label: $encoded_email; return '<a href="mailto:'. esc_attr( $encoded_email ).

'">'. esc_html( $link_label ). '</a>'; } }<h3>Contribute</h3>

com/pixeline/pixeline-email-protector

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • antispam
  • email
  • mailto
  • obfuscate
  • spam
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 2.7 · PHP not listed
Update activity29 Oct 20263d ago

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Recent tracked changes

Version1.4.31.5.0
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.0.8
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