How to Hide Email from Spam Bots in WordPress?

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Do you want to protect your email address from spam bots on your WordPress site? When you display your email address in plain text, bots can easily find and harvest it, leading to unwanted spam. To keep your inbox clean and secure, it’s important to hide your email from these bots while still making it accessible to real visitors.

With the Nexter Extension (Free) and Nexter Extension (Pro) plugins, you can easily hide the email ID from spam bots in your WordPress site.

How to Hide Email from Spam Bots with the Nexter Extension Pro?

To hide email ID from spam bots with the Nexter Extension Pro plugin, from the WordPress Dashboard, go to Nexter Extension > Security.

Then go to the Advanced Security section and click on the gear icon (⚙).

advanced security settings new ui

It will open the Advanced Security popup, then enable the Hide Email from Spam Bots toggle, and click the Save button.

hide email from spam bots


Now, to hide the email ID from spam, add the email ID with this shortcode on any page or post.

[obfuscate email=”john@john.com” display=”inline”]

This will show the email ID normally to humans, but in the source code, it will not show as normal text. 

obfuscation email demo

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