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Email Address Encoder icon

Email Address Encoder

v1.0.24
by Till Krüss · 4.2 (159 reviews)

A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.

100K+ active installs Updated Jan 21, 2025 Tested to 6.7.2 Requires PHP 5.3
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Email Address Encoder

About Email Address Encoder

This lightweight plugin protects email addresses and mailto links from being collected by spam bots. It can also protect other content like phone numbers using a shortcode. The premium version offers additional features like full-page protection and support for popular plugins.

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Email Address Encoder screenshot
Email Address Encoder screenshot
Email Address Encoder screenshot

Frequently asked questions

What does the Email Address Encoder plugin do?
The Email Address Encoder plugin protects plain email addresses and mailto links from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.
What areas does the plugin have an effect on?
The plugin has an effect on the posts, pages, comments, excerpts, text widgets, and other filtered content.
Does the plugin require JavaScript?
No, the plugin works without JavaScript.
Are there premium features available?
Yes, there are premium features available for the Email Address Encoder plugin.
What are some of the premium features?
Some of the premium features include full-page protection that catches all email addresses, hardened protection using JavaScript and CSS techniques, improved phone number protection, and built-in plugin support for ACF, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and many others.

Changelog

1.0.24

  • Added class attribute to [encode] shortcode
  • Prevent CSRF to flush page caches

1.0.23

  • Fixed potential XSS vulnerability when using link shortcode attribute

1.0.22

  • Added link attribute to [encode] shortcode

1.0.21

  • Changed page slug to avoid issues with the encode keyword
  • Only search for unprotected emails on public pages
  • Show warning when page couldn’t be fetched

1.0.20

  • Encode emails in navigation menus

1.0.19

  • Defer loading of email detector script
  • Use plugin version as cache buster
  • Add “Polymorphous ROT47/CSS” to techniques

1.0.18

  • Show warning when incompatible plugins are installed
  • Fixed saving of dismissed notices

1.0.17

  • Offload email detection to web worker
  • Flush WP Super Cache and Cachify when saving settings
  • Ignore emails in admin bar, debug bar and query monitor

1.0.16

  • Avoid fatal error when using PHP 5.5 or lesser

1.0.15

  • Added EAE_REGEXP constant
  • Added eae_email_callback filter
  • Added unprotected email detector to admin bar
  • Respect eae_method filter in shortcode
  • Fixed issue with notices not hiding in some cases
  • Flush page cache when saving settings (W3 Total Cache; WP Rocket; LiteSpeed Cache; JCH Optimize)

1.0.14

  • Fixed Dashboard JavaScript issue
  • Blocked signup for more non-production domains

1.0.13

  • Resolved issue with WordPress 4.7 and older
  • Blocked signup for local domains and IP addresses

1.0.12

  • Avoid fatal error when using PHP 5.3 or lesser

1.0.11

  • Added the ability to get notified when your site contains unprotected email addresses
  • Made EAE_DISABLE_NOTICES check stricter
  • Removed cross-promotion

1.0.10

  • Added option to disable notices and promotions
  • Added activation and uninstall callbacks
  • Added $hex parameter to eae_encode_str() method
  • Added ability to turn off email encoding
  • Various code and UI improvements

1.0.9

  • Made page scanner notice dismissable
  • Only show page scanner notice on Dashboard
  • Added setting for filter priority
  • Added EAE_DISABLE_NOTICES constant to disable all notices and promotions
  • Pass site URL along to page scanner
  • Moved cross-promotion to plugin screen

1.0.8

  • Added user interface
  • Added links to page scanner

1.0.7

  • Prevent potential compatibility issue with other plugins or themes

1.0.6

  • Added [encode] shortcode
  • Require PHP 5.3 to fix deprecation warning

1.0.5

  • Prevented error when eae_encode_emails() doesn’t receive a string

1.0.4

  • Added EAE_FILTER_PRIORITY constant to adjust default filter priority

1.0.3

  • Added filter to override the encoding function
  • Improved randomness of encode-function
  • Improved speed by doing fast @-sign existence check

1.0.2

  • Added filter to override the regular expression.

1.0.1

  • Effects now also page, post and comment excerpts

1.0

  • Initial release

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