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 find and harvest it, leading to unwanted spam. To keep your inbox clean and secure, it is important to hide your email from bots while still making it accessible to real visitors.
Nexter Extension includes a built-in email obfuscation tool that hides your email address from spam bots in WordPress while displaying it normally to human visitors.
Best Used For:
- Contact pages and About pages where email addresses are displayed publicly.
- Business websites where client-facing email addresses need protection from spam harvesters.
- Membership or community sites where member email addresses appear in user profiles or directories.
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How to Hide Email from Spam Bots with the Nexter Extension Pro?
To set up email spam protection, from the WordPress dashboard go to Nexter → Extensions → Security.
In the Advanced Security section, enable the toggle and click the gear icon (⚙). To add similar bot protection to your contact forms, see How to Add Google reCAPTCHA in WordPress.
In the Advanced Security popup, enable the Hide Email from Spam Bots toggle and click Save.
To display a protected email address on any page or post, add the following shortcode:
[obfuscate email="john@john.com" display="inline"]
The shortcode displays the email address normally to human visitors. In the page source code, the address is encoded to prevent spam bots from harvesting it. For additional site-wide bot protection, see How to Add Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA in WordPress.
