{"id":292,"date":"2006-09-15T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/emailshroud-20\/"},"modified":"2015-06-20T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T05:54:53","slug":"emailshroud-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/emailshroud-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"EmailShroud 2.2.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

EmailShroud is a WordPress<\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n

The latest version is 2.2.1<\/a><\/strong>, and can be downloaded here<\/a> or via WordPress.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/h3>\n

In order for spammers to send email to millions of people, they need millions of email addresses. One way to get these addresses is to automatically search the web, harvesting email addresses from unsuspecting web-sites. EmailShroud helps to protect email addresses that are published on a WordPress Blog.<\/p>\n

Note: EmailShroud is not like most of the anti-spam plugins for WordPress. EmailShroud does not protect the blog against Comment<\/em> Spam<\/a>. EmailShroud helps to protect the owner, authors and other people mentioned on a blog from receiving <\/em>email<\/em> spam.<\/p>\n

How does it work?<\/h3>\n

EmailShroud does more than just use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153escape codes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which is a poor-man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solution to this problem.<\/p>\n

It uses JavaScript to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153obfuscate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the email address. Spammers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run JavaScript during their harvesting, as it would take too much effort and is unlikely to help produce many more email addresses. Almost all browsers used to actually read blogs do<\/em> run JavaScript \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the browser transparently decodes the email address without the reader even noticing.<\/p>\n

EmailShroud gracefully handles browsers that are not running JavaScript.<\/p>\n

How do I install it?<\/h3>\n

Installation is simple, and you should have the basic system up and running in a couple of minutes. <\/p>\n

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  1. Install the files.\n
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    1. Get the latest version of EmailShroud<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Create a directory called emailshroud<\/code> on your WordPress server under the wp-content\\plugins\\<\/code> subdirectory.<\/li>\n
    3. Extract the downloaded files into that directory.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    4. Activate the plug-in.\n
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      1. Login to your WordPress Admin site.<\/li>\n
      2. Select the Plugins page.<\/li>\n
      3. If you were running an earlier version of EmailShroud, find it in the list and click Deactivate.<\/li>\n
      4. Find the new EmailShroud entry and click Activate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        The system is now installed and activated. It will handle almost all of the situations and almost all of your readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 browsers.<\/p>\n

        You may like to read Limitations of EmailShroud<\/a> to find out about the tiny minority of situations that EmailShroud won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t automatically handle.<\/p>\n

        You may like to read Advanced Settings of EmailShroud<\/a> to find out about how to improve the look-and-feel for the tiny minority of users who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t running JavaScript, and how to improve the security beyond the defaults.<\/p>\n

        How do I upgrade it?<\/h3>\n

        Follow the same instructions above. Upgrading from EmailShroud 1.0.1, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 is suggested but not mandatory. <\/p>\n

        Support<\/h2>\n

        Feel free to report<\/a> any bugs you notice or any suggestions you have. I plan to spend a limited amount of time on support.<\/p>\n

        Acknowledgements and Further Reading<\/h2>\n

        Competing WordPress Plugins<\/h4>\n

        There are several WordPress plugins with similar goals.<\/p>\n