by Online Optimisation 4.6 (33 reviews)

WP Mailto Links - Protect Email Addresses

Name: WP Mailto Links - Protect Email Addresses
Rating: 4.6 (33 reviews)
Author: Online Optimisation

Protect & encode email addresses safely from spambots & spamming. Easy to use - encodes emails out-of-the-box.

WP Mailto Links ranks #2,514 among WordPress.org plugins with 7,000+ active installations, is #152 of 3,349 in the Communication category, a 4.6/5 rating from 33 reviews, and was last updated Sep 22, 2023. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.2 (Current: 7.1)

v3.1.4 Current Version v3.1.4

Updated 2 years ago Last Update on 22 Sep, 2023

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#152 of 3,349 in Communication Top 5% by installs Downloads +14.5% this week No update in over a year

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#2,514

-1 this week

Active Installs

7K+

-16.3%

KW Avg Position

47.5

0.5 worse

Downloads

186.9K

+7 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

4.6 (33 reviews)

Next Milestone 8K

Total Progress 94.8%

7K+ 8K+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.6

33 reviews

Overall 92%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 2 days ago

Sep 22, 2025 UNPATCHED

WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses [wp-mailto-links] <= 3.1.4 (unfixed + closed)

CVE-2025-53464 · No fix released
Sep 22, 2023

WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses [wp-mailto-links] < 3.1.4 (closed)

CVE-2023-5109 · Fixed in v3.1.4

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.1.4
Last Updated: Sep 22, 2023
Requires WP: 4.7+
Tested Up To: 6.2
PHP Version: 5.3.2 or higher
Author: Online Optimisation

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 33
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who display email addresses on their site. It solves the problem of spambots harvesting those addresses by automatically encoding and protecting emails, mailto links, and related content.

Full page email protection
Automatic protection technique detection
Excludes posts and pages
Converts plain emails to mailto links
Converts plain emails to PNG images
Supports rot13 and entity encoding
Shortcode support: [wpml_mailto]
Template tag support: wpml_mailto() and wpml_filter()

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Mailto Links - Protect Email Addresses

The plugin combines the best email protection methods (CSS and JavaScript techniques). All of them are explained in this article. A webpage contains code on the backside. In the code all email addresses will be obfuscated, to hide them from spambots. Only when people see the page and click on the mailto link, the encoded email address will be translated to a normal email address.

Off course by activating this plugin :) on your site. But even still it's not recommended to use email addresses directly in your posts or in your theme templates. It would be better to use the shortcode [wpml_mailto] and template tag wpml_mailto(), because when the plugin isn't active anymore, the email addresses would not be shown on your site.

You can exclude pages within our settings page. Simply activate the button for advanced settings and you will see an input field. In there, simply separate the page/post ids with a comma and save. Here is an example: 12,455,19

By default shortcodes are not applied to (text) widgets. To support that you can add it to the text widget filter (for more). If you are not a coder, then just activate this plugin, which does the same thing.