FAIR

Federated and Independent Repositories

Anti-Spambot

Plugin Banner

Anti-Spambot

by Robert Peake

Download
Description

Obfuscation of email via the [email]...[/email] shortcode syntax using built-in WordPress Codex functionality.

Alternative variations:

  • [email]user@example.com?subject=foo+bar&body=baz[/email] creates a mailto: link with subject and body pre-populated
  • [email nolink=1]user@example.com[/email] just displays the email without a link wrapping it
  • [email linktext="click here"]user@example.com[/email] displays the text “click here” with a link to the email address

Install via “Add Plugin”.

  1. Use the <code>[email]...[/email]</code> tag to wrap your email input

    Use the [email]...[/email] tag to wrap your email input

  2. This will display as an email address wrapped in a mailto: hyperlink (i.e. clickable to open a mail client)

    This will display as an email address wrapped in a mailto: hyperlink (i.e. clickable to open a mail client)

  3. The source code used to render this involves randomly-encoded characters, making it more difficult for spambots to harvest

    The source code used to render this involves randomly-encoded characters, making it more difficult for spambots to harvest

How does this work?

This plugin converts email addresses within the [email]...[/email] shortcodes using the built-in WordPress Codex antispambot() function. The function converts email address characters to HTML entities. It converts a random selection of characters each time, making it more difficult for spam-bots to “harvest” the email address programmatically.

Is it foolproof?

The only foolproof way to ensure email addresses do not get harvested from a web page is to not include them on the page in any form. However, the method created by the WordPress developers that we employ here should provide reasonable protection against all but the most concerted automatic-harvesting efforts.

Simple; easy to use!

By Jana (jana@janasnyder.com) on December 9, 2018

Users: For details about how to insert a subject line, body content, or how to use your name (or any other text) for the link text, see the thread by Ma3ry in support. Thanks for making this easy-to-use, elegant solution!

Works perfectly on 10 different sites / 3 different hosting-services

By presscode (saschinger) on July 21, 2018

Best in class 😉

Awesome Plugin with Terrific Support!

By ma3ry on September 3, 2016

This plugin does exactly what it's supposed to do EASILY! Developer has also added new features which have been really helpful to me. Many, many thanks!

  • 1.1.5 – Tested with WordPress 5.3
    • 1.1.5 – Tested with WordPress 5.2
    • 1.1.4 – Tested with WordPress 5.1
    • 1.1.3 – Tested with WordPress 5.0
    • 1.1.2 – Tested with WordPress 4.9.5
    • 1.1. – Added support for ?subject= strings, nolink= shortcode attribute (just print) and linktext= shortcode attribute to specify link text
    • 1.0 – upgraded to stable version after eight months in the wild
    • 0.1-alpha – Initial release
Back to top