TablePress security to block web scraping

  • Resolved wahospitality

    (@wahospitality)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Does TablePress have any kind of security features that can mask email addresses on a publicly published table? I have a table on my website that is a staff directory containing names and email addresses. Staff members receive various spam/phishing/scams/etc. and I wonder if part of that exposure comes from web scrapers reading the website.

    Does Tablepress have any built-in functionality to hide information from those bots? Or mask it in some way? I’m just in the exploratory stage of solving this issue, so I may need to go a different route if this doesn’t exist here.

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by wahospitality.
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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    No, TablePress does not have any feature integrated regarding obfuscation of email addresses. For that, I recommend to look for a separate plugin that can then maybe do that via a Shortcode that is inserted into the table cells.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter wahospitality

    (@wahospitality)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Tobias,

    Thank you for your response! I will do what you suggested and search out another plugin for this purpose.

    -Kyle

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this will help!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

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