Pixeline's Email Protector

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 65% 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. ★★★★★ itforme

   11mo ago

   I was looking for an alternative, more up-to-date plugin. All the others haven’t released any updates for quite some time. Now I have an up-to-date plugin to protect my emails again. It works as described and expected.

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2. ★★★★★ ardalanme

   8.9y ago

   Thanks for creating this plugin! It works great. There are a couple of features, however, that I think should be added. Otherwise, bots will soon learn how to parse the emails you’re protecting. 1. The class name should be customizable on the settings page. 2. The parenthesis should be included in the text that the admin is able to customize. Without these 2 changes, it’s very easy to write a regex that extracts emails. This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by ardalanme.

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3. ★★★★★ Sound View

   9.5y ago

   This plugin ended up working great for me. Initially I had already coded the mailto links. I had used the email address as the text to link to, so that was a problem. I was able to resolve that my removing the mailto link and keeping only the email address and that worked perfectly. Now all email addresses added to the site will be protected. thank you!

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4. ★★★★★ jimmyppi

   9.9y ago

   You can also config the text that replaces @ This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by jimmyppi.

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5. ★★★★★ sigurdvt

   10.7y ago

   I maintain a web site that has addresses of an organization’s board members. Wanting to better protect them from spam, I tried this plugin and am quite pleased. On the WordPress “Edit Page” for the page in question I enter email addresses in the form [email protected]([Click here to send])* The plugin takes everything in the parentheses and displays that as the link. I’ve told the board members that if they’d prefer, I can do something like myname [at] myorg [dot] com or any variation they’d prefer, for their email address. At the bottom of the page in question I added the text * This site uses an “anonymizer” to protect email addresses from spammers. Click on the text if you want to send someone an email. In many browsers, moving the pointer to the link will give you a popup that displays the actual email address (preceded by “mailto:”).

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6. ★★★★★ CH3man

   10.9y ago

   The Email Protector plugin is useful but needs amending – domain extensions can now exceed 4 characters in length. e.g. .london

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7. ★★★★★ treesfoundation

   11.7y ago

   Bottom line is, I’m glad it’s working with the latest WP! And I hope it truly obfuscates (you can’t visibly tell if it really does hide anything from spambots). I used it out of the box, and also with my theme in the PHP file, like so: echo '<span class="pep-email" title="E-mail">'.$p_email.'</span>'; (Where $p_email was a custom fields variable.)

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8. ★★★★★ Marcy

   12.6y ago

   This works as promised in the content. In the plugin settings you choose the text you want to have in parenthesis that replace the @. And that’s it! It just works. Because of the way it works, it will also affect the email address used by the Jetpack contact form. You will need to use another contact form if you use this plugin.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.4 Pixeline's Email Protector <= 1.3.8 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-09 CVE-2025-58982 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.3.8 Patched in 1.4.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-23 900+ → 800+ down after 26 days in tier
2. 2026-05-28 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-05-27 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-05-26 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-05-25 900+ → 800+ down after 45 days in tier
6. 2026-04-10 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-04-09 900+ → 800+ down after 444 days in tier
8. 2025-01-20 1K+ → 900+ down after 5 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).

• WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses 8K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags D
• Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP Mail Logging 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• hCaptcha for WP 70K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Maspik – Multi-Layer Spam Protection 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A

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Pixeline's Email Protector: 800+ active installs, 4.3★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/pixelines-email-protector