Cryptex | E-Mail Address Protection

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 52% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ dazono

   8.0y ago

   This is a fairly good and not too complicated plug-in which does a good job at scrambling e-mail addresses automatically on WP sites. Load the fonts you use and it can be fine-tuned to blend very well into the website. It may require a bit of work to fine-tune it to perfection, but it is well worth the efforts. This is not the plug-in for those who just wants something which works without any efforts. But the scrambling it does is well worth the effort.

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2. ★★★★★ floriande

   8.3y ago

   It causes exceptions, the formatting of the image looks very bad and it cannot be used on a professional website. Forget this plugin! This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by floriande.

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3. ★★★★★ Lewis Rosenthal

   12.5y ago

   Elegant solution to an ongoing problem (harvesters). On static sites, I’ve had to cobble together my own javascript to combat the problem. This is much nicer. Thanks, Andi. Great work.

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4. ★★★★★ sitars

   12.6y ago

   Thank you for this!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-20 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-08-19 900+ → 800+ down after 386 days in tier
3. 2025-07-29 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-07-28 900+ → 1K+ up after 4 days in tier
5. 2025-07-24 1K+ → 900+ down after 9 days in tier
6. 2025-07-15 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-07-14 1K+ → 900+ down after 3 days in tier
8. 2025-07-11 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Postie 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• WP-EMail 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin 4M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Cookie Compliance for WordPress – Cookie Consent, GDPR & CCPA 900K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Easy WP SMTP – WordPress SMTP and Email Logs: Gmail SMTP, Office 365, Outlook, Custom SMTP, and more 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A

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Cryptex | E-Mail Address Protection: 900+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cryptex