Obfuscating Email Addresses

There are several schools of thought about having email addresses present in your website in a form that a computer can read and subsequently harvest, and then you find yourself on a junk email list.

My email address is all over the place, and while I do receive a lot of spam, it is manageable. I also used to receive a lot of spam before my email address was all over the place. So unlike some people that treat the subject as one might a religion, I am not entirely convinced it is a massive problem based on experience.

However I noted on one of the sites I developed a client has located and added a plugin which obfuscates (make obscure) the email address by encoding it in such a way, that we can still read it and see it, but a computer looking for the @ symbol will not see it.

I have not tried it yet, and perhaps arguably it is like shutting the gate after the horse has left the stable (on the basis that this will not remove you from any spamming lists!) you can locate it and try it yourself.

The plugin is called EMail Address Encoder by Till Kruss. It has been downloaded 60,000 times and it is also rated at 4.5 stars.

To locate it and add it, log into to your site and go to Plugins, Add New and enter Email Address Encoder and you will probably find it at the top of the list.

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