A simple plugin to hide emails from spambots. Simply use the shortcode [hide_email [email protected]] to hide myemail@mydomain.
As of April 2026, WP Email Invisibliser is a WordPress email plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
A simple plugin to hide emails from spambots. Simply use the shortcode [hide_email [email protected]] to hide [email protected] from harvesters but create a clickable email link.
There is no complex encryption, that isn’t the purpose of this plugin. It simply removes readable emails from the html outpout, replaces them with a span element that uses the hex converted email address in a class and then replaces that span element with javascript on the fly to create a clickable link. If the viewers browser is not javascript enabled they will see a short message explaining why they can’t see the email.
| WordPress | 2.0.2+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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div> output with output to allow user more flexibility (update may cause current uses to change from appearing on a new line to appearing inline but will result in valid html)
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