This plugin encrypted e-mail addresses to protect and hide them from bots and harvesters.
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….
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…
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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