Comments on: Preventing email spam with the built-in WordPress email obfuscator

By: arjun

arjun — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:47:00 +0000

thank your 4 great info ..

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:37:47 +0000

Hi Miriam,
Thanks for the info, just what I was looking for. You mention that you cannot use this method to obfuscate a generic, non-specific user related email address. But you can: if you enter
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(such as , it will just take that specific email address and obfuscate it.
Cheers,
Hans.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:30:23 +0000

@ND thanks for telling us about Private Daddy! I’m going to check that out. Seems like an interesting service.

By: ND

ND — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:22:51 +0000

I used to have Private daddy on my web site. Now there’s also a WordPress plug-in for the rest of us. It does this automatically: http://www.privatedaddy.com/wordpress

By: Jeremy Carlson

Jeremy Carlson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:22:51 +0000

@csleh: WP 2.8.4 seems to work just fine with the `antispambot` tag. I was using `get_the_author_meta(‘user_email’)` for grabbing the address. You might try that…
Contact forms are nice, but a lot of people want to be able to click on a link to email (in part for their own concerns about privacy), and this is pretty much the best solution for that situation.
To grab an author’s email outside of the loop, you need to specify which author, like so:
`get_the_author_meta(‘user_email’,2)`
…where ’2′ is the author’s ID.

By: csleh

csleh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:36:14 +0000

unfortunately the tag doesn’t show anything in wp 2.8.1. Use an obfuscator to hide, but a contact form is a better idea.

By: WordCast » Blog Archive » WordCast 21: Purple Knuckles

WordCast » Blog Archive » WordCast 21: Purple Knuckles — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:41:39 +0000

[...] Dave’s slightly helpful pick: WordPress’s built-in email obfuscator [...]

By: tekkie

tekkie — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:14:32 +0000

Mac OS X users can also manually use a Dashboard widget called obfuscatr. It provides JS or just plain encoding of your email. See the details article at flash tekkie. obfuscatr was also featured in MacWorld Italy of March 2008.

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Bitwire.TV | WordCast 21: Purple Knuckles — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:50:29 +0000

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By: WordPress Email Obfuscation | Webmaster-Source

WordPress Email Obfuscation | Webmaster-Source — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:08:57 +0000

[...] didn’t know this until WordPress Garage pointed it out, but it seems that WordPress has a built-in obfuscation function. It’s called antispambot(). [...]