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E-mail encoding

p_kratzerp_kratzer
in Shortcodes
Hi there,

How do I protect/encode my email address (or telephone-number) in a button/link (e.g. using it on a Icon Box or something similar) so that mail-to links and the site-code does not contain my email-adress in plain text? There are wordpress plugins like email encoder or email encoding bundle which should take care of it but it seems that they do not affect the shortcodes of BeTheme. What would be the right way to go about this?

Webpage-Link: https://dev.da-molar.at/

The idea behind it is to make it hard(er) for email harvesting bots/crawlers to pick up the adress.
I tried to follow these instructions, but I couldn't get it to work so far: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-protect-email-addresses-on-your-wordpress-site/

Thanks in advance for your help!

Comments

  • BryanBryan
    Hi,
    sorry but we do not support such modifications. We cannot suggest any plugins as well, because we did not test those plugins with our theme.
    thanks
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  • p_kratzerp_kratzer
    edited September 2017
    Is there really no way of doing that?? That is really unfortunate to hear. Personal data protection is a huge thing these days! You don't want your business e--mail adress or telephone number to show up in shady mailing-lists just because a bot picked it up in plain text (without your permission of course). 

    Encoding it in HEX or some other method seems (from what I've read) to be so easy to do, but if I understand correctly, it needs to be done in the theme files (as a function). It's simple, but it is enough to throw most of those nasty bots/crawlers off. 

    Please consider this feature for future updates, it's crucial for proper data security! Thank you!
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