Obfuscate your email address or other sensitive information with a shortcode to prevent spam and automated harvesting of data.
| Author: | khromov (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.6 |
| Plugin version: | 2.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 24-12-2012 |
| Last updated: | 28-07-2016
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 88 |
| Rated by: | 16 |
| Plugin URI: | http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-obf... |
| Total downloads: | 12 087 |
| Active installs: | 1 000+ |
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Screenshots
Shortcode example in editor
Obfuscated JavaScript code as rendered to page
How does this plugin prevent my email address or other personal information from being harvested?
Email Obfuscate Shortcode converts your email address into JavaScript-based snippet. This makes the address unreadable to the vast majority
of email harvesting techniques.
What browsers is this plugin compatible with?
Internet Explorer 6 and up, any Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera version.
How do you obfuscate information other than email addresses?
To obfuscate phone numbers, names and other sensitive information, pass the parameter linkable=”0″. This will print anything you
put in the “email” field as text onto your page, fully protected.
Will people without JavaScript see my email address?
People without JavaScript will see a placeholder message urging them to enable JavaScript. The current placeholder message reads:
“Please enable JavaScript to see this field.”
You can customize this message by passing the noscript_message=”” parameter to the shortcode.
Is the solution bulletproof?
This protection has been proven very effective. However it is theoretically possible to harvest the email address if you run a real browser that resolves javascript (Selenium, Mechanical Turk workers etc.)
ChangeLog
2.0
- Improved way of displaying emails, using getElementByID and innerHTML(). This plugin is no longer dependent on document.write and can now be used when data is displayed via AJAX. Compatibility with major browsers should be unaffected.
1.3.3
1.3.2
- Added support for a tag title attribute via the tag_title=”title” shortcode attribute.
1.3.1
- Fixed issue with additional space being added after email address. (Thanks to omdaddi)
1.3
- Fixed compatibility issue with PHP 5.2 (5.3 is still recommended)
- Fixed a bug that made use_htmlentities setting not work.
1.2
- Minor documentation fixes
1.1
- Changed Plugin URI to the plugin page at WordPress.org
1.0
