Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Mask Email WP Plugin

by damonp on August 16, 2005

in Development,General,Open Source

I wrote a quick and dirty plugin to get a primer on how the WordPress plugins API works.

Mask Email WP Plugin replaces all email addresses in posts and comments with a bin2hex encoding of the characters in the email. This allows the email address to be visible in a browser and usable by an email client, but it looks like trash to an email harvesting bot.

Full details at: Mask Email WP Plugin

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Mask Email Plugin

by damonp on August 16, 2005

in General

Overview

Mask Email keeps email links safe from email harvesting boxes by encoding the address.

Features

  • Automatically encodes email address so that spam bots cannot read them, but browsers and email clients can

Requirements

Installing

  1. Download Mask-Email.zip.
  2. Upload mask_email.php to wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Activate the Plugin.

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Popularity: 1%

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