Description
Obfuscate your email address or other sensitive information with a shortcode to prevent harvesting of your data.
Version 2.0 includes an improved way of displaying the email without relying on JavaScript document.write();
Usage
Basic usage
[email-obfuscate [email protected]]Setting custom link text
[email-obfuscate [email protected] link_title=Email Bob!]*Setting custom link title attribute
[email-obfuscate [email protected] tag_title=Email Bob!]Using every available setting (this example shows their default values)
[email-obfuscate [email protected] linkable=1? link_title= use_htmlentities=1? use_noscript_fallback=1? noscript_message=Please enable JavaScript to see this field.]Usage from a template or plugin
Below is a snippet that you can use in any template or plugin to apply the same obfuscation to an email as using the shortcode:
if(function_exists(eos_obfuscate))
{
echo eos_obfuscate(array(email => $email, link_title => Email Bob!));
}
else
{
echo $email;
}
If the plugin is not enabled, the email address will just pass through and output in cleartext.
Requirements
- PHP 5.3 or higher
- mbstring extension
Translations
- Swedish
TODO
- Better noscript_fallback. Enable people without JavaScript to see the email address using technique to inject empty spans via css.
(Example: [email protected]
Reference: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/obfuscate-email/other_notes/
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the
email-obfuscate-shortcodefolder to/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin (Email Obfuscate Shortcode) through the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Use the shortcode in any post, page or custom post type.
FAQ
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Email Obfuscate Shortcode converts your email address into JavaScript-based snippet. This makes the address unreadable to the vast majority
of email harvesting techniques. -
Internet Explorer 6 and up, any Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera version.
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To obfuscate phone numbers, names and other sensitive information, pass the parameter linkable=0?. This will print anything you
put in the email field as text onto your page, fully protected. -
People without JavaScript will see a placeholder message urging them to enable JavaScript. The current placeholder message reads:
Please enable JavaScript to see this field.You can customize this message by passing the noscript_message= parameter to the shortcode.
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This protection has been proven very effective. However it is theoretically possible to harvest the email address if you run a real browser that resolves javascript (Selenium, Mechanical Turk workers etc.)
