Write email addresses without worrying about spambots and email harvesters.
As of April 2026, Pixeline's Email Protector is a WordPress spam plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
This plugin provides an unobtrusive yet efficient protection against email harvesters / spambots. Here is a demo.
Post/page authors may write email addresses in their article in the usual format (“[email protected]”) without exposing them to spam email harvesters. The plugin takes care of the obfuscation, implementing a graceful degradation technique focusing on usability so as to protect your email addresses from harvesters while keeping them usable to your human visitors.
The plugin replaces any email address found in posts, pages, comments and excerpts, and replace them by a bit of html markup that should deceive most email harvesters: <span class="email">john(replace the parenthesis by @)doe.com</span>.
If javascript is available, it will display a clickable link an…
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
…and 6 more changes
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