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WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses

Protect & encode email addresses safely from spambots & spamming. Easy to use - encodes emails out-of-the-box.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.2
Current version3.1.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.2
Minimum stackWP 4.7 · PHP 5.3.2
Directory statusactive
Last directory update22 Sept 20233y ago
Active installations7K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.6 / 5 from 33 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses version 3.1.4 as active, updated 3y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.2.

Overview

About this plugin

Protect and encode email addresses safely from spambots, spamming and other robots. Easy to use out-of-the-box without any configuration.

Features

  • Full page protection for emails
  • Instant results (No confiruation needed)
  • Protects mailto links, plain emails, email input fields, RSS feeds and much more
  • Autmoatic protection technique detection (Our plugin chooses automatically the best protection technique for each email)
  • Exclude posts and pages from protection
  • Automatically convert plain emails to mailto-links
  • Automatically convert plain emails to png images
  • Supports rot13 encoing, escape encoding, CSS directions, entity encoding and much more
  • Deactivate CSS directions manually for backwards compatibility
  • Shortcode support: [wpml_mailto]
  • Template tag support: wpml_mailto() and wpml_filter()

The plugin combines the best email protection methods (CSS, PHP and JavaScript techniques).

Free Website Check

We offer you a free tool to test if your website contains unprotected emails. You can use our website checker by clicking here

Easy to use

The plugin works out-of-the-box to protect your email addresses. After activating the plugin, all options are already set for protecting your emails and mailto links.

Documentation

The plugin works out-of-the-box to protect your email addresses. All settings are default set to protect your email addresses automatically with the best method available.

If you want to manually create protected mailto links, just use the shortcode ( [wpml_mailto] ) within your posts or use the template tags ( wpml_mailto() or wpml_filter() ) in your theme files.

Shortcode `[wpml_mailto email=”…”]…[/wpml_mailto]`

Create a protected mailto link in your posts:

com”]My Email[/wpml_mailto]

It’s also possible to add attributes to the mailto link, like a target:

com” target=”_blank”]My Email[/wpml_mailto]

Shortcode `[wpmt_protect]…[/wpmt_protect]`

g. some ajax loaded values):

[wpmt_protect]YOUR CONTENT YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR EMAILS[/wpmt_protect]

It’s also possible to customize the encoding type using “protect_using”. Possible values: char_encode, strong_method, without_javascript, with_javascript:

[wpmt_protect protect_using=”…”]YOUR CONTENT YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR EMAILS[/wpmt_protect]

Template tag `wpml_mailto( $email [, $display] [, $attrs] )`

Create a protected mailto link in your template like:

Template tag `wpml_filter( $content )`

Filter given content to protect mailto links, shortcodes and plain emails (according to the settings in admin):

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • email address
  • antispam
  • hide
  • mailto
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.2

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.2.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 5.3.2
Update activity22 Sept 20233y ago

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