Title: Obfuscation Email
Last modified: November 14, 2025

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# Obfuscation Email

 *  Resolved [davvam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davvam/)
 * (@davvam)
 * [8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obfuscation-email/)
 * Hi
 * How do I turn this setting off. It’s really not great to have as it obviously
   gives the user the wrong email address!
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [davvam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davvam/)
 * (@davvam)
 * [8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obfuscation-email/#post-18720635)
 * It adds extra characters after the first name of the email address. I have this
   plugin installed on many sites, and I am just waiting for the influx of calls
   saying you have made a mistake with our email address.
    -  This reply was modified 8 months ago by [davvam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davvam/).
    -  This reply was modified 8 months ago by [davvam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davvam/).
 *  Plugin Support [Antonio Candela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antoiub/)
 * (@antoiub)
 * [7 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obfuscation-email/#post-18721891)
 * Hello [@davvam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davvam/) ,
 * Thank you for your message.
 * The email obfuscation is **intended behavior** in Complianz. It’s a spam-prevention
   feature designed to make it harder for bots and crawlers to harvest email addresses.
   By default, there is no UI toggle to disable it, but we’re taking your feedback
   on board, and it’s something we may add in a future update.
 * If you want to turn it off right now, you can disable obfuscation using this 
   filter: [https://gist.github.com/tonai126/4e136dd798b2d057cb051e9493539e5a](https://gist.github.com/tonai126/4e136dd798b2d057cb051e9493539e5a).
   
   You can add this as a small MU-plugin or via a code-snippet plugin.
 * Also important to note:
   If you see the email displayed incorrectly (for example:`
   mail@ex.comdomain.com`), that is usually caused by **CSS or caching** exposing
   the obfuscated version instead of letting the browser render it properly.
 * I hope this helps, I remain at your disposal.
 * Best regards,
   Antonio

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 * Last activity: [7 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obfuscation-email/#post-18721891)
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