Title: [Plugin: wp-spamspan] obfuscates e-mail in forms
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: wp-spamspan] obfuscates e-mail in forms

 *  [powderflask](https://wordpress.org/support/users/powderflask/)
 * (@powderflask)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-spamspan-obfuscates-e-mail-in-forms/)
 * Many forms auto-fill the user’s e-mail address.
    Because this module does a blanket
   replacement on all content, these form fields get mightily messed up. Here are
   a couple solution ideas:
 * 1) Ideally, form fields would simply not be obfuscated – since a spam-bot would
   not see a filled in form field anyhow, and we don’t want to turn these e-mail
   addresses into mailto links on the client side.
 * 2) Changing the priority of the the_content filter to 9 seems to fix my immediate
   problems. Probably not a general solution.
 * This is the best obfuscation technique going – so simple, very effective, non-
   intrusive. If you need help maintaining the plugin, I’d be happy to lend a hand.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamspan/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamspan/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-spamspan-obfuscates-e-mail-in-forms/)
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