{"id":5308,"date":"2025-03-20T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norttipaikalle.fi\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:47:02","slug":"hiding-email-addresses-from-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norttipaikalle.fi\/fi\/hiding-email-addresses-from-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect your email: Hiding email addresses on WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-639b5052 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>In two simple steps, I will show you how to keep safe by hiding email addresses using a few lines of HTML and CSS code. This ensures that bots are unable to scrape your email address, whilst keeping it visible to legitimate visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have combined several methods from an article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labnol.org\/internet\/hide-email-address-web-pages\/28364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Labnol<\/a> to give a simple two-step solution which even beginners with WordPress should have no trouble implementing. The same code can also be used on other websites publishing systems, but the steps might vary slightly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HTML code to create the email address<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a &#8220;Custom HTML&#8221; block with the following content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;p&gt;\n    &lt;a href = &quot;mailto:johnATgmailDOTcom&quot;\n        onclick = &quot;this.href=this.href            .replace(\/AT\/,&#039;@&#039;)            .replace(\/DOT\/,&#039;.&#039;)&quot;&gt;\n        &lt;my-email data-user=&quot;john&quot; data-domain=&quot;gmail.com&quot;&gt;&lt;\/my-email&gt;\n    &lt;\/a&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This block of code works like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It defines a paragraph using the &lt;p&gt; and &lt;\/p&gt; tags.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In  a similar way, it then defines the  email link (anchor) using &lt;a&gt; and &lt;\/a&gt; tags.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The &#8220;href&#8221; defines what happens when you click on the link.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You see here the obfuscated email address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When clicking the link (onclick), Javascript replaces the AT and DOT by &#8216;@&#8217; and &#8216;.&#8217;.  Your email program now receives the correct email address.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The &lt;my-email&gt; tag is used to create the actual text you see on the website. The CSS code below handles the rendering.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-nv-light-bg-background-color has-background\"><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> The email address won&#8217;t be visible until the CSS code below is added to your website.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customise the code to match the email address you are wanting to hide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CSS code to display the email address<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the &#8220;Additional CSS&#8221; panel of your theme.<br>(WordPress Dashboard -&gt; Appearance -&gt; Customise -&gt; Additional CSS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add the following code; modifying it to match the email address you are wanting to hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-nv-light-bg-background-color has-background\"><code> my-email::after {\n    content: attr(data-domain);\n  }\n  my-email::before {\n    content: attr(data-user) \"\\0040\";\n  }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You will recognise the&nbsp;my-email&nbsp;tag from the code above. This code essentially says \u201cshow the text defined by \u2018data-domain\u2019 and \u2018data-user\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part, with&nbsp;data-user, also includes the instruction to display an \u2018@\u2019 symbol using the ASCII reference number&nbsp;0040.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9d61c3a03ea38d1c1cd9c2f30c4e1581\" style=\"color:#848484;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.085), 15px);\"><em>Code source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.labnol.org\/internet\/hide-email-address-web-pages\/28364\">h<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labnol.org\/internet\/hide-email-address-web-pages\/28364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ttps:\/\/www.labnol.org\/internet\/hide-email-address-web-pages\/28364<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These steps are fairly simple to undertake.  If, when you test it, you find it&#8217;s not working, check the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do the values for the email address in the &#8216;href&#8217; match the values in the &#8216;my-email&#8217; tag?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have you got all the &#8221; marks still?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do the tags have matching &lsquo;ends&rsquo;?  &lt;p&gt; and &lt;\/p&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like help with this, feel free to drop me a line at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    <a href = \"mailto:moiATnorttipaikalleDOTfi\"\n        onclick = \"this.href=this.href            .replace(\/AT\/,'@')            .replace(\/DOT\/,'.')\">\n        <my-email data-user=\"moi\" data-domain=\"norttipaikalle.fi\"><\/my-email>\n    <\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The code in this post generated the email address above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#8a8a8a;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.085), 15px);\"><em>This article was written, in part, with assistance from AI.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email addresses, commonly found on webpages, are a vital point of contact for businesses and individuals alike. 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