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wL Email Encrypter

This plugin encrypted e-mail addresses to protect and hide them from bots and harvesters.

By Art4·Hide·Free
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·90 active installs·Updated 15 years ago
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As of April 2026, wL Email Encrypter is a WordPress hide plugin with 90 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses….

0/5Rating
90active installs
11K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

wL Email Encrypter scans pages, articles, comments or RSS feeds for email addresses and encrypts them using JavaScript or replacing the @ signs with your own text like [at]. This allows bots and other email-collectors do not recognize and save the emails.

A visitor who has not activated JavaScript, gets displayed a userdefined message about it.

If an user is logged in, the emails won’t be encrypted.

The protect method can be set separately for posts, comments and rss feeds. For example, RSS Feeds should not include JavaScript, so there should prefer the @ sign to be replaced.

wL Email Encrypter also recognizes with mailto: email addresses linked with subject information and others, and protect this information also.

There is a meta box for page-specific settings in the administratio…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress2.9+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0.5

  • All unicode characters are now supported (Thanks to John)
  • 2 bugs fixed (Thanks to Borut)
  • German language file updated
  • Preparing to wL Email Encrypter 1.1
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Art4Art4
Plugin Info
Version
1.0.5
Last Updated
Mar 28, 2011
WP Requires
2.9+
Tested Up To
4.6.30
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
90
Downloads
11K+
Added
Jul 21, 2010
Business
Free

Tags

hidespamemailencryptprotect

Developer

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Art4
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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