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If you think this is a problem, this plugin is not for you.<\/p>\n\n<p>Looking at the screen you can see the email, but if you inspect elements, instead of the email you will see something strange, and not predictable. That's what a bot will also see.<\/p>\n\n<p>The output is something very random for the bot, and even if the code of this plugin is open source, no bot will be able to decrypt the email.<\/p>\n\n<p>There are amazing plugins for contact forms, but sometimes what you really need is just an email that people can use to contact you.\nContact forms are so popular because a bot will not be able to get your email, but if you have a way to prevent bots from getting your email, you can simply add it to your page without the need of a contact form. Your page will be lighter and simple.<\/p>\n\n<p>Email No Bot has no settings page, it doesn't write anything in the database, and it doesn't load any asset on frontend, it just provides a shortcode, that's it.<\/p>\n\n<h3>How to encrypt an email with Email No Bot<\/h3>\n\n<p>To encrypt an email use the shortcode <strong>[hide_email email=\"example@mail.com\"]<\/strong>.\nOf course, replace example@mail.com with the email that you want to display.\nYou can see an example and see how it works on the blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/josemortellaro.com\/prevent-bots-from-getting-emails-from-your-website\/\">Prevent bots from getting emais from your website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Main features of Email No Bot<\/h3>\n\n<p>It obfuscate emails with 52 lines of code! The entire zip is less than 3 kB. No complicated settings, no database queries, no assets, nothing else than a shortcode. You will have no spam at zero cost in terms of performance. The weight of this plugin similar to the weight of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/hello-dolly\/\">Hello Dolly<\/a>.\nYou can see here the <a href=\"https:\/\/plugintests.com\/plugins\/wporg\/email-no-bot\/latest\">consumption of Email No Bot<\/a>. As you will see it's not measurable.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Limitations of Email No Bot<\/h3>\n\n<p>The user will not be able to copy the email in the clipboard. But this is also what makes this plugin so powerful against spam bots.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Similar plugin to hide links<\/h3>\n\n<p>If you need something similar to hide links, you can try <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/hide-link\/\">Hide Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>0.0.3<\/h4>\n\n<p>*Fix: PHP warning<\/p>\n\n<h4>0.0.2<\/h4>\n\n<p>*Added: action link in the plugins page to show the shortcode<\/p>\n\n<h4>0.0.1<\/h4>\n\n<p>*Initial release of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/email-no-bot\/\">Email No Bot<\/a><\/p>","raw_excerpt":"Humans will see the email address on your page, but robots will not.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/152385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152385"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/giuse"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=152385"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=152385"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=152385"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=152385"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmo.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=152385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}