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Pixeline's Email Protector

Write email addresses without worrying about spambots and email harvesters.

By pixeline·Spam·Free
4.3(8 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 7 months ago
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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.

4.3/58 reviews
900active installs
21K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.38 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress2.7+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.4.0

  • Security: Fixed stored XSS vulnerability on the Settings page by sanitizing input and escaping output.
  • Security: Escaped frontend-generated markup (title and visible text) and used safe DOM APIs.
  • Admin: Migrated options to the WordPress Settings API.
  • Admin: Changed settings page capability to manage_options.
  • JS: Rewrote frontend manipulation to use createElement/textContent instead of insertAdjacentHTML.

…and 6 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

pixelinepixeline
Plugin Info
Version
1.4.0
Last Updated
Sep 6, 2025
WP Requires
2.7+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
900
Downloads
21K+
Added
Jan 23, 2010
Business
Free

Tags

spamemailaddressharvestobfuscate

Developer

P
pixeline
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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