WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses
Protect & encode email addresses safely from spambots & spamming. Easy to use - encodes emails out-of-the-box.
4.6(33 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, WP Mailto Links is a WordPress hide plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 33 reviews. It has been downloaded 186K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.3.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses….
4.6/533 reviews
8.0K+active installs
186K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Protect and encode email addresses safely from spambots, spamming and other robots. Easy to use out-of-the-box without any configuration.
Features
- Full page protection for emails
- Instant results (No confiruation needed)
- Protects mailto links, plain emails, email input fields, RSS feeds and much more
- Autmoatic protection technique detection (Our plugin chooses automatically the best protection technique for each email)
- Exclude posts and pages from protection
- Automatically convert plain emails to mailto-links
- Automatically convert plain emails to png images
- Supports rot13 encoing, escape encoding, CSS directions, entity encoding and much more
- Deactivate CSS directions manually for backwards compatibility
- Shortcode support:
[wpml_mailto] - Template tag support:
wpml_mailto()andwpml_filter()…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Top mais une mise à jour serait bienvenue
by franculyon·5 years ago
Fonctionne bien et simplement. J’ai testé d’autres plugin mais celui-ci est le plus optimisé (on peut cliquer sur le lien mail, le copier aussi, cela fonctionne et il est bien caché en code source…). Rempli très bien sa fonction. Merci mas une petite mise à jour serait nécessaire pour assurer la compatibilité avec les évolutions de wordpress.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by franculyon.
Much Improved from the old version – Great Plugin
by chventures·6 years ago·2 replies
This is a must have plugin and the support is phenomenal – 7 hours from report of bug to a fix being available!
Great job.
Effective and easy to implement
by NightL·6 years ago·1 reply
Effective and easy to implement
very prompt response and resolve for support question
Where the free version really works
by hendrik_r·6 years ago·1 reply
I have been using another encoder plugin for many years, until the developer decided to create a premium version and make the free version totally useless over night.
Luckily I found this plugin that does the job flawlessly.
I only had to click one setting (“Turn plain email into mailto”), and my whole page was protected.
Thank you for this plugin. And if you one day decide to make money, please do it with additional features. I will be happy to consider those.
Dead easy to use, and works flawlessly.
by Paddy Landau·7 years ago
This plugin works flawlessly without any problem in the background. There are a few nice options to choose from, although the defaults work well.
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 9This week: 79Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | 5.3.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
93.5%
Other
6.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.1.4: September 22, 2023
- Security Patch for XSS vulnerability within the create_protected_mailto() function (Thanks to Wordfence)
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