As of April 2026, Email Address Obfuscation is a WordPress email plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
5/54 reviews
2.0K+active installs
10K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022
Overview
A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting bots, by converting email addresses characters to HTML entities. Hide email from Spam Bots using a shortcode [obfuscate_email] and built-in WordPress function antispambot().
Features
- Obfuscate plain email address
- Obfuscate href mailto link in HTML anchor element
- Support for custom CSS class
- Support for email subject
Usage
Obfuscate plain email address
[obfuscate_email email="[email protected]"]
Create clickable email address
[obfuscate_email email="[email protected]" link=true]
Add CSS class to the HTML anchor element
[obfuscate_email email="[email protected]" link=true class="my-class another-class"]
Obfuscate email address with email subject
[obfuscate_email email='[email protected]?subject=My custom email subject']
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Ratings & Reviews
54 reviews
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Recent Reviews
A simple but efficient solution
by lukascech·6 months ago
Just what I was looking for, thanks!
Excellent – a badly needed plugin
by groggy72·9 months ago
Thanks to the dev for an awesome plugin. Not all heroes wear capes.
Works as designed
by netro1·1 year ago
5-stars – Very useful plugin which does what is it claiming to do. Thanks developer.
Does exactly what it says it will
by Scott DeLuzio·3 years ago
The best plugins are the ones you install and they just work. This is one of those plugins. Thanks for creating a simple tool to obfuscate email addresses.
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 10This week: 81Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
94.0%
v1.0
5.2%
v1.1
0.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.0
- Added support for email subject.
Contributors
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