Title: Obfuscate Email
Author: Scott Reilly
Published: <strong>April 14, 2005</strong>
Last modified: April 14, 2021

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# obfuscate-email

 By [Scott Reilly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-email/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-email/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-email/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/obfuscate-email/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of August 8, 2024 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96d1c370f98545a6d136209c711317df2e6ae1c4792177345d697e34028212f6?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Emails on webpage hacked](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emails-on-webpage-hacked/)󠁿

 [mikeiz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeiz/) November 23, 2022

I used this plugin to protect the email addresses of the Executive Board of our 
camera club and a week later they were all hacked! Not good.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef70ddc7665619e6665aae4516bc1c032efba30dc61b57782415c1fa1b4eeca5?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Developer gave up on it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developer-gave-up-on-it/)󠁿

 [844bankbtc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/844bankbtc/) September 17, 2022

It doesn’t work and the developer’s blog hasn’t been updated since 2016. Looks like
he has given up on updating this.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8c9415e38988b175551c1135e0e850387ee516b06a1adc87870da804f4c1a68?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-3758/)󠁿

 [Alessio Pellegrini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pointnet/) October 28, 2021

It does not work, whichever setting you choose the result does not change, the e-
mail remains unencrypted even in the code.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/65fae51c70b01147b9e3e818d7db8ddcc8e3292f3eb441b5e8e22f637f1f0320?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[no effect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-effect-19/)󠁿

 [madeforbrowser](https://profiles.wordpress.org/madeforbrowser/) August 20, 2021

show definitely no effect, either on ajax-loaded content nor on simple wordpress
pages…

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/475f48a3a9fe4c3036617fa3fe0c6c97e7cced79d52bb70b6cb0ba05c899cf76?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[This does nothing to prevent SPAM](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-does-nothing-to-prevent-spam/)󠁿

 [benharold](https://profiles.wordpress.org/benharold/) February 23, 2017

This plugin is useless for SPAM prevention. Manuel Razzari is spot-on in his review:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-by-default-configurable-to-downright-evil/

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/915a301d2ac662fac528bc6251bf4c7f7090ff463ed4a9a3809f8984c77e0e2a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin which does what it's created for](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-which-does-what-its-created-for/)󠁿

 [kenpachizaraki](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kenpachizaraki/) September 3, 2016

Thanks a lot for creating this great and useful plugin. SPAM takes a lot of time
in the daily business so it’s best if there’s no SPAM. In Germany we have to present
a valid E-Mail address in the imprint of a business website, so it’s quite dangerous
that any E-Mail harvesting bot gets what it’s designed to do: harvest valid mail
addresses. So a script like this helps a lot to minimize the chance to feed those
bots.

 [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/obfuscate-email/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Obfuscate Email” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Scott Reilly ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/)

“Obfuscate Email” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/obfuscate-email/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Obfuscate Email” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/obfuscate-email)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/obfuscate-email/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/obfuscate-email/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/obfuscate-email/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/obfuscate-email/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **3.8.1**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.7.15**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-email/) and [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/obfuscate-email/).
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