Comments on: Obfuscate E-mail v2.0

By: Dan Butcher

Dan Butcher — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:54:49 +0000

Great plugin! I have a question about how it works. I activated the plugin, and it worked on a post I created after activation, but older posts don’t have the email address obscured. So, does this plugin actually change the code in the post (and therefore the post is forever altered in the database), or does this plugin alter the post as it’s published (as I think your replacement plugins do)?

Also, if this changes the code in the post, what happens if the plugin is later deactivated? Will the email links be unusable?

By: Alan Bristow

Alan Bristow — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:26:39 +0000

Working perfectly here (WP2.5) – thanks a lot Scott!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:23 +0000

Great plugin.

I have one suggestion for an additional feature:

Obscure the “mailto:” in the URL as well. That would fool a bot which scans for this keyword in links (hopefully).

It is as simple as adding “(mailto:)?” in the regular expression. I’m using it on my blog and haven’t noticed any significant amount of spamming (which doesn’t prove anything of course).

By: Hikari

Hikari — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:54:35 +0000

It is not working here too. Plugin is activated but email is being shown on source :/

By: cal

cal — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:22:33 +0000

Hey Scott, just tried deactivating all plugins and messing around, still can’t get it to work. Every time I view source the email is normal. If I learn more testing I’ll let you know.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:35:07 +0000

Rich: You were right; I fixed the version number typo. Thanks!

cal: Did you try it with some or all of your other plugins temporarily disabled? I haven’t received any reports back about it not working properly. The sample you said you inserted above should’ve appeared obfuscated when doing a “View Source”…

Don: Thanks! Good suggestion. I’ll add it to the plugin’s todo to add JS obfuscation as at least an option.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:02:32 +0000

Hi Scott,
Nice work on all your plugins. Very USEFUL which is great!

One thought.
On the obfuscate email plugin, could you not add a decision process in the code that tests for javascript status in the visitor’s browser and then implement either hex or javascript obfuscation depending on whether javascript is on or off?

That way, most of the time, the maximum strength (javascript) obfuscation will be implemented. Certainly for bots at least.

By: cal

cal — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:49:38 +0000

Hey Scott,
Should you be able to “View Source” and see the email address obfuscated? I have the plugin activated on 2.5 and inserted an email link as shown in readme file, but nothing seems to happen…..
Any Ideas?
Inserted link like this
person@example.com

By: Rich Schmidt

Rich Schmidt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:54:41 +0000

Scott,

1. Thanks SO MUCH for all the useful plugins!

2. I think you have a typo at the top of this post, calling it v3.0 instead of v2.0. Or am I missing something?

3. Again, THANK YOU!!!

Rich