Humans will see the email address on your page, but robots will not.
As of April 2026, Email No Bot is a WordPress no bot plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Top alternative: Hide Link | Really hide links to robots.
With Email No Bot humans will see the emails that you write using the shortcode [hide_email email=”[email protected]”], but robots will not.
The user will not be able to copy the email in the clipboard. If you think this is a problem, this plugin is not for you.
Looking at the screen you can see the email, but if you inspect elements, instead of the email you will see something strange, and not predictable. That’s what a bot will also see.
The output is something very random for the bot, and even if the code of this plugin is open source, no bot will be able to decrypt the email.
There are amazing plugins for contact forms, but sometimes what you really need is just an email that people can use to contact you.
Contact forms are so popular because a bot will not be able to…
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
*Fix: PHP warning
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