Email Protector cloaks email addresses in your Joomla! website, making them unreadable for spambots.

Email Protector is a replacement for the Joomla! core email cloaking plugin.

The core email cloaking plugin has a couple of issues and shortcomings. Email Protector solves these issues.

 

NO MORE JAVASCRIPT ISSUES
The core email cloaking plugin uses the javascript document.write method, which is outdated and can cause issues with other javascripts.
It also relies solely on javascript to cloak the email addresses, which means that if the javascript fails for whatever reason, you cannot see the email address at all.

Email Protector cloaks the email addresses in a different manner which solves this issue.
It uses both CSS and javascript to cloak the email addresses. When javascript fails to load, it will still display the email address to the visitor, but in a cloaked manner.

 

NOT ONLY IN ARTICLES
The core email cloaking plugin is a content plugin. This means it only works in articles and content that is specifically passed through the content plugins. As a result this often means that email addresses in modules and 3rd party extensions are not cloaked.

Email Protector is a system plugin and is written in a way that it will cloak email adresses in your entire website. So also in modules and 3rd party extensions.

 

LEAVE IT LIKE IT IS
The core email cloaking plugin has the option to convert all email addreses to mailto links or display them as plain text.

Email Protector has an extra (default) setting to leave the email addresses as you create them in the content. So if the email address is a mailto link, it leaves it as a link. And when it is only text, leave it like that.

How to use it: https://www.regularlabs.com/emailprotector

 

 

Regular Labs Email Protector is a Joomla! system plugin that cloaks email addresses in your Joomla! website, making them unreadable for spambots.

Email Protector is a replacement for the Joomla! core email cloaking plugin.

With this plugin, email addresses are cloaked in a safer and more stable way compared to the core plugin. Also, Email Protector takes effect across the entire website, as opposed to the core plugin which only cloaks email addresses inside articles content.

Here is a table that compares the features of the core plugin with Email Protector:

 

Plugin order is important

As explained in our article dedicated to Joomla Plugin ordering, the order of plugins in your Joomla site is important.

Plugins are executed in the order they have in the Plugin Manager (under menu 'Extension' in the Joomla! administrator side).

Email Protector cloaks the email addresses that it finds at the stage it triggers. Normally, you will not run into any issues.

However, if you're using 3rd party plugins to output your content, such as Articles Anywhere - and any of those articles contain email addresses you want to cloak, then you need to make sure that Email Protector is ordered after Articles Anywhere, otherwise, Email Protector will be triggered before Articles Anywhere outputs the content.

 

	Core Plugin	Email Protector
	Included in Joomla	FREE	PRO€ 29
Cloak email addresses inside articles	Yes	Yes	Yes
Option to display email addresses as mailto links or as plain text	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cloak email addresses inside modules, 3rd party components and template overrides	No	Yes	Yes
Option to display email addresses as they were originally entered	No	Yes	Yes
Cloaking when javascript fails or is disabled	No	Yes	Yes
Option to cloak email addresses using images J4	No	No	Yes
Option to ignore email addresses in Javascript	No	Yes	Yes
Option to ignore email addresses in feeds	No	No	Yes
Option to ignore email addresses in PDFs	No	No	Yes
Get fast support to the extension via the Support forum	No	No	Yes