Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.
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.
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.
Good free plugin. I hope it will soon be able to automatically recognize phone numbers
I’m actually impressed that it’s still free.
Excellent plugin and support. Highly recommended.
Encodes email addresses, phone numbers, ahrefs. Great!
Thanks for the quick fix and your friendly and attentive support!
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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