Comments on: EmailShroud 2.2

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:07:55 +0000

That is a good point Julian. You are right about forms. Having the address makes it a bit more accountable. I know for my small organization the contact form goes to the info@ address. Since it doesn’t have any person specifically attached to it, it can get overlooked.

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:32:04 +0000

Alex, this plugin is still working fine after all those years. Hasn’t needed touching for years.

Contact forms have their place, but only last week I was at a site for a manufacturer that had a contact form instead of an email address and phone number. As I filled it in, I realised how little I trusted that it would ever be seen by anyone!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:08:32 +0000

I suppose most people have gone to contact form plugins to avoid this issue but it is interesting to see these creative methods for protecting email. Not saying that this tool is antiquated, but with comments going back to 2006 – it makes me wonder if someone maintains a spam prevention museum

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:21:42 +0000

Swami,

Here are some instructions for hacking your theme to turn off EmailShroud on particular pages.

You are right: That email address won’t be hidden if you do this. You might like to create a special address for dealing with PayPal, and have your spam-filter only let through emails from the PayPal domain.

By: Swami M

Swami M — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:44:13 +0000

Can the email shroud be disabled on a certain post? Well, we are experimenting with a plugin that creates a form for accepting donations; it sends our e-mail address to PayPal. This of course spoils that plugin. But then, our e-mail address will not be hidden.

Thanks.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:46:18 +0000

Here's a study on the effectiveness of different email address obscuring techniques.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:17:25 +0000

I had an email conversation with Diane Clayton, and we worked out the cause.

If you have TWO email addresses in the one anchor tag (I am going to use # instead of @ in the example, to avoid triggering my copy of EmailShroud.):

email2#example.com

even if those email addresses are the same, EmailShroud will protect the first one normally, but drop the domain-name from the second one.

The workaround is to either have the email address straight in the text (EmailShroud will add the link automatically), or replace the internal address with some other text, or accept the dropped domain name.

It is working exactly as designed – I found I had written commented code for exactly this scenario. However, I haven’t yet had time to reconsider my strategy and decide if this is a bug in the design. It isn’t yet clear to me what the right behaviour should be – especially because the two address might be different.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:08:22 +0000

Hmmmm… sounds awfully like I am completely wrong. I’ll have to have a closer look.

By: Diane Clayton

Diane Clayton — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:53:54 +0000

Thanks for the snappy response!

Weird, because I downloaded the plugin from the “download here” link at the top of the page, and in my WordPress installation in the plugins area it says I’m using v2.2… could it be that one of the scripts in the plugin folder is accidentally an older version?

Diane

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:49:21 +0000

Good news, Diane. You *are* missing something obvious You appear to be using version 1.0 of EmailShroud, which has been obsolete for 4 years.

The behaviour you ask for was introduced in version 2.0. The latest version is 2.2.

If you upgrade to the latest version, you should get what you want.