Email JavaScript Cloak WordPress Plugin
A simple plugin to use JavaScript to cloak email addresses in your WordPress content (posts & pages).
This plugin lets you use a shortcode to automatically generate 'cloaked' email addresses in your content.
What is cloaking? Take an email address like barack@whitehouse.gov. If that was to appear on one of your posts/pages, it could easily be 'scraped' or 'harvested' automatically to add that email address to a spam list of some sort. Cloaking is all about making that harder to do.
How does this plugin do its cloaking? For any email address you include in your content, using the custom shortcode of [email barack@whitehouse.gov], that email address will appear as "barack -at- whitehouse -dot- gov" in your content initially. JavaScript running in the browser will then convert that email address to a regular, clickable, email link. Whilst i
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Usage of Email JavaScript Cloak over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 52 to 50 — down 2 (-3.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 50 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 50 | +2 |
| May 2024 | 48 | +1 |
| April 2024 | 47 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 47 | -2 |
| February 2024 | 49 | +2 |
| January 2024 | 47 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 48 | -3 |
| November 2023 | 51 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 50 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 51 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 52 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 52 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 52 | — |
Themes used with Email JavaScript Cloak
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bb-theme-child |
| 2 | Bb-theme |
| 3 | Enfold |
| 4 | Envision |
| 5 | Enfold-child |
| 6 | Divi |
| 7 | Astra-siegewatch |
| 8 | Webdesignbytrishah |
| 9 | Secounselors_v5 |
| 10 | Di-flat |
| 11 | Magazine-basic |
| 12 | Velocity |
| 13 | Mesocolumn |
| 14 | Avada |
| 15 | A1 |
| 16 | Di-basis |
| 17 | Remould-5.2 |
| 18 | Trishah |
| 19 | Webdesignbytrishah_child |
| 20 | Astra |
Sites running Email JavaScript Cloak
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