Email Protect 1.0 WordPress Plugin Released
This entry was posted on Jun 08 2008
I’m happy to announce the release of Email Protect 1.0, a WordPress plugin that automatically obfusctes email addresses in posts, pages, and comments. What is the advantage of this? It allows you to safely display email addresses yet protect them from spam bots that harvest email addresses from the HTML of webpages.
Here is an example of it in action:
Text Obfuscation:
emailme [at] here [dot]com
Image Obfuscation:
Here’s it’s features at a glance:
- Automatically protect email addresses from spam harvesters in posts, pages, and comments
- Obfuscate email addresses using text (myemail [at] example [dot] com) or images
- Control email text replacement for the “@” sign and final period in emails
- Control font, font color, background color, and border color of obfuscated email images
- Convert any email address in your template into obfuscated text or images by inserting a simple function call into your pages
Visit it’s offical release page to download or leave comments/suggestions
Great plugin in terms of image obfuscation yet the [at] type of obfuscation is probably a bad idea. you can tell this off this chart as well.
For Mac OS X users there’s a convenient Dashboard widget called obfuscatr. It provides JavaScript or just plain hexadecimal encoding which is not as effective.
See the details at flash tekkie.
obfuscatr was also featured in MacWorld Italy of March 2008.