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Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers icon

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers

Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.

By Online Optimisation·Hide·Free
4.9(89 reviews)
·90K+ active installs·Updated 5 days ago
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As of April 2026, Email Encoder is a WordPress hide plugin with 90K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 89 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.8M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 1515% this week. Support resolution rate: 67%. Top alternative: If Menu – Visibility control for Menus.

4.9/589 reviews
90K+active installs
67%resolved
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

Full site protection for your email addresses from spam-bots, email harvesters and other robots. No configuration needed.
It also protects phone numbers or any other text using our integrated [eeb_protect_content] shortcode or href attribute encoding.

Features

  • Full page protection for all of your emails
  • Instant results (No confiruation needed)
  • Protects mailto links, plain emails, email input fields, RSS feeds and much more
  • Protect phone number links, ftp, skype, file and other custom link attributes
  • 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 e…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.989 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Nice Free Plugin
by 720florian·2 weeks ago

Good free plugin. I hope it will soon be able to automatically recognize phone numbers

Been using it for years!
by paulr25·1 month ago

I’m actually impressed that it’s still free.

Excellent plugin and support
by niveksa·3 months ago

Excellent plugin and support. Highly recommended.

Best I’ve Found
by fletchadam·4 months ago

Encodes email addresses, phone numbers, ahrefs. Great!

Useful plugin, great support
by sankari·5 months ago

Thanks for the quick fix and your friendly and attentive support!

Download Trends

Today: 1KYesterday: 2KThis week: 44KPeriod total: 623K

Compatibility

WordPress4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v2.4
63.7%
v2.2
23.9%
v2.1
8.6%
Other
3.8%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.4.5: March 30, 2026

  • Security: Fixed stored XSS vulnerability in eeb_mailto shortcode (CVE-2026-2840)
  • Security: Replaced unsafe JavaScript execution with innerHTML in escape encoding method
  • Security: Added output escaping for protection text in noscript blocks
  • Security: Added attribute escaping in link construction methods
  • Security: Improved input sanitization in template functions

…and 4 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Online OptimisationOnline Optimisation
Plugin Info
Version
2.4.5
Last Updated
Mar 30, 2026
WP Requires
4.7+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
90K+
Downloads
1.8M+
Added
Feb 10, 2010
Business
Free

Tags

hideencodeencryptprotectanti-spam

Developer

O
Online Optimisation
2 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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