by Online Optimisation 4.9 (94 reviews)

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers

Name: Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Rating: 4.9 (94 reviews)
Author: Online Optimisation

Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.

Email Encoder ranks #468 among WordPress.org plugins with 90,000+ active installations, is #39 of 3,634 in the Communication category, a 4.9/5 rating from 94 reviews, and was last updated Sep 21, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.8 (Current: 7.1.4)

v2.5.5 Current Version v2.5.5

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 21 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 18 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#39 of 3,634 in Communication Top 1% by installs Downloads -49.5% this week

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90K+

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KW Avg Position

9.4

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Downloads

2.3M

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Support Resolved

67%

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Rating

98%

Review 4.9 out of 5

4.9 (94 reviews)

Next Milestone 100K

Total Progress 88.6%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.9

94 reviews

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

12 known vulnerabilities on record · 3 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

May 20, 2026

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.4.7

CVE-2026-5776 · Fixed in v2.4.7
Apr 20, 2026

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.3.4

CVE-2024-7083 · Fixed in v2.3.4
Apr 15, 2026

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.4.5

CVE-2026-2840 · Fixed in v2.4.5
Jul 8, 2024

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.2.2

CVE-2024-4483 · Fixed in v2.2.2
Feb 13, 2024

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.2.1

CVE-2024-1282 · Fixed in v2.2.1
Jan 9, 2024

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.1.10

CVE-2023-7070 · Fixed in v2.1.10
Nov 15, 2023

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.1.9

CVE-2023-47821 · Fixed in v2.1.9
Aug 29, 2023

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.1.9

CVE-2023-4599 · Fixed in v2.1.9
Aug 2, 2021

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 2.1.2

CVE-2021-24599 · Fixed in v2.1.2
Aug 10, 2015

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers [email-encoder-bundle] < 1.4.2

Fixed in v1.4.2

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.5.5
Last Updated: Sep 21, 2026
Requires WP: 4.7+
Tested Up To: 7.0.8
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Online Optimisation

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9
Reviews: 94
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 67%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to keep email addresses and phone numbers from being harvested by spambots. It automatically encodes emails and other contact info on the site, with no configuration required, using multiple obfuscation techniques and shortcode or template tag support for custom protection.

Protects mailto links and plain emails
Protects phone number links
Automatic protection technique detection
Exclude posts and pages from protection
Converts plain emails to mailto-links
Converts plain emails to PNG images
Shortcode support: [eeb_protect_emails], [eeb_mailto]
Encoder Form for manual encoding

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers

You can test this in three different ways. The easiest (and most efficient) way is to use our website checker, which looks over your website and detects unprotected emails. It is completely free and you can find it here on our website. The second possibility is to enable the plugin option (in the admin panel) called "Security Check". When you are logged in and look on the page there will be a icon on the right side of each email address confirming it was successfully encoded. (This counts only for emails that are displayed within the body tag as HTML. Emails within data attributes or the header won't show this icon since otherwise the site breaks.) The third possibility is to check the source code yourself by right-clicking on the page and select View Source Code (the exact text depends on the browser). Now your (real) source code will be shown. Your email address should not be shown in a readable way in the source. Important: in the element inspector of the browser the email address is nearly always shown, so don't worry about that. That is because the inspector shows a real time representation of the page. This means an encoded email address is already decoded and made usable for the visitor of the page.

All email addresses are protected automatically by default, so it is not necessary to configure anything else. In case you wish to customize it, we also offer some neatsettings, shortcodes and template functions. Please check the settings page within your WordPress website or our documentation The visitors will see everything as normal, but the source behind it will now be encoded. For more information, please check out the following page

Just use the following shortcode within your posts: [eeb_protect_content]35-01235-468113[/eeb_protect_content] For other parts of your site you can use the template function eeb_protect_content().

First: Don't panic! Simply create a support request within the support forum and we will come back to you as soon as possible with help.

Every content will be automatically protected. In case you find something, that doesn't work from your end, we are very happy to help! Our plugin is fully compatible with WP Webhooks and plugins created via Pluginplate

Yes, since version 1.3.0 also special characters are supported.