Title: Pixeline&#039;s Email Protector
Author: pixeline
Published: <strong>23 de enero de 2010</strong>
Last modified: 6 de septiembre de 2025

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# Pixeline's Email Protector

 Por [pixeline](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixeline/)

[Descargar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pixelines-email-protector.1.4.0.zip)

 * [Detalles](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/#description)
 * [Valoraciones](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/#reviews)
 *  [Instalación](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/#installation)
 * [Desarrollo](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/#developers)

 [Soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pixelines-email-protector/)

## Descripción

This plugin provides an unobtrusive yet efficient protection against email harvesters/
spambots. Here is a [demo](https://pixeline.be/blog/email-protector-demo-4258.html).

Post/page authors may write email addresses in their article in the usual format(«
john@doe.com») 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 and display the original email to
the human user. Maximum usability, maximum protection.

**Please [rate the plugin](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/)
if you like it.**

### Utilización

Write your email addresses inside your posts and pages as usual. When the plugin
is activated, it will replace them by a human-readable html string that explains
how to deduce the email address, and if javascript is available (99.9% of the time),
the original email address will be displayed as a clickable mailto: link. For example:

Hello john@doe.com. How are you today? will become John( replace these parenthesis
by @ )doe.com.

Additionally, you can specify what the mailto: link should look like by sticking
a parenthesis inside of which you put the visible link text, like this:

    ```
    Hello john@doe.com(John Doe). How are you today?
    ```

will become
 John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com.

#### inside a theme

If you need to protect emails inside your Theme’s files (like the footer.php for
example), you can use the function safe_email() like this:

    ```
     echo safe_email('you@domain.com'); <h3>Contribute</h3>
    ```

Github repo: https://github.com/pixeline/pixeline-email-protector

## Instalación

 1. Unzip the file into your wp-content/plugins directory.
 2. In your wp-admin screen, activate the plugin. That’s it, your emails are now safe!

Additionally, there is a Settings screen (Email Protector) allowing you you to customize
the text that is displayed as a replacement to the email address.

## Reseñas

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### 󠀁[up-to-date plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/up-to-date-plugin-2/)󠁿

 [itforme](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itforme/) 15 de octubre de 2025

I was looking for an alternative, more up-to-date plugin. All the others haven’t
released any updates for quite some time. Now I have an up-to-date plugin to protect
my emails again. It works as described and expected.

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### 󠀁[Works great! A couple of suggestions, however:](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-a-couple-of-suggestions-however/)󠁿

 [ardalanme](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ardalanme/) 7 de octubre de 2017

Thanks for creating this plugin! It works great. There are a couple of features,
however, that I think should be added. Otherwise, bots will soon learn how to parse
the emails you’re protecting. 1. The class name should be customizable on the settings
page. 2. The parenthesis should be included in the text that the admin is able to
customize. Without these 2 changes, it’s very easy to write a regex that extracts
emails.

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### 󠀁[Great plugin, initial problem w/ using email as text link, but resolved now…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-initial-problem-w-using-email-as-text-link-but-resolved-now/)󠁿

 [Sound View](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lkkuhn/) 19 de marzo de 2017 1 respuesta

This plugin ended up working great for me. Initially I had already coded the mailto
links. I had used the email address as the text to link to, so that was a problem.
I was able to resolve that my removing the mailto link and keeping only the email
address and that worked perfectly. Now all email addresses added to the site will
be protected. thank you!

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### 󠀁[Works without problems](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-without-problems-3/)󠁿

 [jimmyppi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimmyppi/) 23 de octubre de 2016 1 respuesta

You can also config the text that replaces @

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### 󠀁[Does just what I want](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-just-what-i-want-1/)󠁿

 [sigurdvt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sigurdvt/) 3 de septiembre de 2016 1 
respuesta

I maintain a web site that has addresses of an organization’s board members. Wanting
to better protect them from spam, I tried this plugin and am quite pleased. On the
WordPress «Edit Page» for the page in question I enter email addresses in the form
myname@myorg.com([Click here to send])* The plugin takes everything in the parentheses
and displays that as the link. I’ve told the board members that if they’d prefer,
I can do something like myname [at] myorg [dot] com or any variation they’d prefer,
for their email address. At the bottom of the page in question I added the text *
This site uses an «anonymizer» to protect email addresses from spammers. Click on
the text if you want to send someone an email. In many browsers, moving the pointer
to the link will give you a popup that displays the actual email address (preceded
by «mailto:»).

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### 󠀁[Bug fix required](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-fix-required/)󠁿

 [CH3man](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ch3man/) 3 de septiembre de 2016 1 respuesta

The Email Protector plugin is useful but needs amending – domain extensions can 
now exceed 4 characters in length. e.g. .london

 [ Leer todas las 8 reseñas ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pixelines-email-protector/reviews/)

## Colaboradores y desarrolladores

«Pixeline's Email Protector» es un software de código abierto. Las siguientes personas
han colaborado con este plugin.

Colaboradores

 *   [ pixeline ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixeline/)

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## Registro de cambios

#### 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.
 * Meta: Updated «Tested up to» to 6.8.2 and plugin version to 1.4.0.
 * I18n: Load text domain via load_plugin_textdomain on plugins_loaded.
 * Widgets: Remove non-existent widget_content; add widget_text_content filter.
 * Options: Add whitelist and 64-char length cap to substitution string.
 * Performance: Early exit in content filters when no ‘@’ present.
 * Assets: Use filemtime-based versioning for the enqueued JS.

#### 1.3.7

Enhancement: now filters the Text Widget content.

#### 1.3.6

mild fixes.

#### 1.3.3

 * fixed admin ui

#### 1.3.2

 * Support for WP 4.7

#### 1.3.1

 * improved readme with a Demo + transition to Github + French translation.

#### 1.3.0

 * Extensive rewrite.
 * Plugin does not run in the Admin anymore.
 * The plugin does not need jQuery anymore. Plain vanilla javascript.

#### 1.2.6

 * Fix bug occurring when there are similar addresses, one being a substring of 
   the other. Thank you, @mkranz ( https://wordpress.org/support/profile/mkranz )

#### 1.2.5

 * Stupid error fixed. My bad.

#### 1.2.4

 * Fixed all notices showing up when WP_DEBUG is true.

#### 1.2.3

 * Fixed a possible cause of javascript errors on some setups.

#### 1.2.2

 * Fixed Warnings appearing before comments.

#### 1.2.1

 * Added filters for get_the_content, get_the_title and get_the_excerpt

#### 1.2

 * Full code rewrite in OOP to avoid polluting the namespace.
 * added filters to protect emails in title, widgets, and comments.
 * Provided a function safe_email($email) to protect emails outside the loop in 
   a theme for example.
 * Clarified the Settings screen and provided thorough documentation.

#### v1.1

 * Now detects «mailto:» links and protects them too.

#### v1.0.3

 * Added the option to specify what should be the visible part of the clickable 
   email by adding a title attribute to the generated Anchor.
 * Changed the span class from «email» to «pep-email» to (kind of) use the «pep»
   namespace.

#### v1.0.2

 * Corrected the plugin’s «Stable version» variable.
 * fixed folderpath issue because of the wrong foldername the wordpress repository
   generates for the plugin :-/

#### v.1.0.0

 * Versión inicial

## Meta

 *  Versión **1.4.0**
 *  Última actualización **hace 7 meses**
 *  Instalaciones activas **900+**
 *  Versión de WordPress ** 2.7 o superior **
 *  Probado hasta **6.8.5**
 *  Idioma
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/)
 * Etiquetas:
 * [address](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/address/)[email](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email/)
   [harvest](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/harvest/)[obfuscate](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/obfuscate/)
   [spam](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Vista avanzada](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pixelines-email-protector/advanced/)

## Valoraciones

 4.3 de 5 estrellas.

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 *  [  0 valoraciones de 2 estrellas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pixelines-email-protector/reviews/?filter=2)
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## Colaboradores

 *   [ pixeline ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixeline/)

## Soporte

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