Email Address Obfuscation

Email Address Obfuscation

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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

[obfuscate_email email="your@email.com"]

Create clickable email address

[obfuscate_email email="your@email.com" link=true]

Add CSS class to the HTML anchor element

[obfuscate_email email="your@email.com" link=true class="my-class another-class"]

Obfuscate email address with email subject

[obfuscate_email email='your@email.com?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.

Details

Plugin code:
email-address-obfuscation
Plugin version:
1.2.0
Author:
Outdated:
No
WP version:
2.5 or higher
PHP version:
5.6 or higher
Test up to WP version:
6.9
Total installations:
2,000
Last updated:
2025-11-28
Rating:
Times rated:
4
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