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Email Protect

Description

EmailProtect

Version 4.0.3

WARNING! Breaking changes: Version 4.0.x does no longer support the MailEncrypt Gutenberg Block. Your email addresses are still protected

WordPress anti-spam email plugin

Simple, fast and no-config plugin to protect your email address. No need for shortcodes or blocks. EmailProtect encrypts all your email addresses in your blog.

Usage

Only install and activate EmailProtect in your WordPress backend. Now all your email addresses are protected against spam-bots. No configuration required.

How are my email addresses encrypted?

EmailProtect scans all of your posts, sites and other content for email addresses. If an email address is found, it is simply replaced with a special tag.
If a bot is now crawling your site, the tag cannot be decrypted. Only for an actual user our script decrypts this tag and the email address can be viewed.

Example

This is what your user sees:

Here is my email address contact@code-leaf.de.

This is what a spam-bot sees:

Here is my email address
<a href ="#" data-email-protect-click="eqpvcevBeqfg/ngch0fg">
    <span data-email-protect="eqpvcevBeqfg/ngch0fg"></span>
</a>

Versions

  • 4.0.3

    • updated dependencies
  • 4.0.2

    • shortcode renders to <span> not <p>
    • legacy index files added
  • 4.0.1

    • better email recognition
    • fixed bugs
  • 4.0.0

    • breaking changes for users of version 3.0 or older
    • Gutenberg-Block deprecated
    • ClassicEditor menu integration deprecated
    • backend menu removed
    • refactored complete code base
    • shortcode deprecation in version 5
  • 3.0

    • new design
    • renaming
    • integration in Gutenberg Editor via ‘MailEncrypt Block’
    • backend generator running now on client
    • fixed bugs
  • 2.0.3

    • added Internationalization
    • added German language pack
  • 2.0.2

    • updated readme
    • fixed 2.0.1 bug also in js files
  • 2.0.1

    • fixed wrong shortcode
  • 2.0

    • better compatibility with modern WordPress versions
    • main language: english
    • removed bugs and side effects
    • ajax handling with wp core
    • menu page instead of options page (included stylesheet now locally)
    • js updated to ES6 (if usable)
    • removed deprecated php functions
  • 1.0

    • js function added
    • 0.3 bugs fixed
  • 0.3

    • changed menu for generating encrypted email addresses
    • changed icon in tinymce editor
    • menu css and js now serving per cdn
    • now working with WordPress 4.7.3
  • 0.2.3

    • menu with Bootstrap
  • 0.2.2

    • menu added
    • ajax text-to-encrypted-text generator added
  • 0.2.1

    • bugs v0.2 repair
  • 0.2

    • added button in tinymce editor for easy shortcode creation
  • 0.1

    • initial Version

Til version 4.0.0 known as ‘WP Mail Encrypt’, til version 3.0 known as ‘Mail Crypter’

Source

wordpress.org:
https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/mail-protect/

The full sourcecode can be found on github:

github.com:
https://github.com/mc17uulm/mail-protect

Installation

  1. Search in plugins menu for “EmailProtect” or download zip and upload via the WordPress installer and install plugin
  2. Activate plugin
  3. All your email addresses are automatically secured. Safe and easy!

Reviews

07 Fevral 2023
I was afraid this plugin wouldn’t catch email links in the WordPress buttons block, but it does (turns out the buttons actually are “a” links)! Works out-of-the-box: just activate the plugin and your e-mail addresses should be correctly obfuscated from the malfeasant robots!
14 Mart 2020
Nice little plugin. I didn’t want to use a heavy plugin for a simple contact form, so I choose to simply add my email adress with a link. This little plugin help me to hide it easily. Thanks.
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Contributors & Developers

“Email Protect” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

4.0.3

  • updated dependencies

4.0.2

  • shortcode renders to <span> not <p>
  • legacy index files added

4.0.1

  • better email recognition
  • fixed bugs

4.0.0

  • breaking changes for users of version 3.0 or older
  • Gutenberg integration deprecated
  • ClassicEditor integration deprecated
  • backend menu removed
  • refactored complete code base
  • shortcode deprecation in version 5

3.0

  • new design
  • renaming
  • integration in Gutenberg Editor via ‘MailEncrypt Block’
  • backend generator running now on client
  • fixed bugs

2.0.3

  • added Internationalization
  • added German language pack

2.0.2

  • updated readme
  • fixed 2.0.1 bug also in js files

2.0.1

  • fixed wrong shortcode

2.0

  • better compatibility with modern WordPress versions
  • main language: english
  • removed bugs and side effects
  • ajax handling with wp core
  • menu page instead of options page (included stylesheet now locally)
  • js updated to ES6 (if usable)
  • removed deprecated php functions

1.0

  • js function added
  • 0.3 bugs fixed

0.3

  • changed menu for generating encrypted mail addresses
  • changed icon in tinymce editor
  • menu css and js now serving per cdn
  • now working with WordPress 4.7.3

0.2.3

  • menu with Bootstrap

0.2.2

  • menu added
  • ajax text-to-encrypted-text generator added

0.2.1

  • bugs v0.2 repair

0.2

  • added button in tinymce editor for easy shortcode creation

0.1

  • initial Version