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Anyone knows that if you put your email address on a website or any public page, your email address will be harvested as the spambot scans the internet. Once it has your email address, you start receiving those annoying and nasty spam messages.
If you own or operate a website then you have to put your email address on your site. If you don’t then your readers and clients can’t communicate with you.
To get around the spambots, you need to obfuscate your email addresses. In other words, you need hide your addresses from the email harvesters.
Yes you could just do a “name at email.com” type of hiding of your email address. But this may not be the best way at hiding your address. Spambots are getting smarter everyday, if they haven’t figured how to get around this, then they will eventually. Image Source: Mail, Web icon
How to Obfuscate Your Email Address in a WordPress Site
There are two ways to obfuscate your email addresses. Both ways are easy to do. To see the codes, check out the article: How to automatically obfuscate email adresses on your WordPress blog and the second way can be found in this article: Function Reference/antispambot.
Both links were found from one of my favorite WordPress Coding sites, WP Recipes.
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