Cryptex | E-Mail Address Protection
NOTE: this plugin is targeted to advanced users and professionals – it requires some configuration tasks and won’t work out-of-the-box!
The plugin is used to display Email addresses as an image – automatically.
This will stop harvesters and crawlers from gathering sensitive data from your website.
It works with emails, telephone numbers, postal addresses or any other text-content.
Just wrap your E-Mail-Address into a shortcode like [email][email protected][/email] – that’s it.
Or use the Autodetect filter to transform every E-Mail-Address on your page automatically into an image!
Plugin Features
- Protects Email Adresses, Telephone Numbers or any other content
- Fully customizable appearance: you can configure font-family, font-size and font-color – everything looks like your theme style
- Retina/HD/High-Dpi Images – best appearance on all devices (2x, 3x or 4x resolution enhancement)
- Shortcode and/or Autodetection usage!
- Build-In E-Mail-Address-Autodetection – all addresses on your page are protected automatically (if you want it – you can also just use shortcodes!)
- Autodetection filters configurable for the_content, the_excerpt, comments, comments_excerpt, text-widget
- Reversible Address-Autodetection Process – your content is modified as long as the plugin is activated
- Postal-addresses, telephone-numbers, names and other sensitive information`s can be protected too
- Protects E-Mail hyperlinks (mailto) by using javascript based key-shifting encryption/decryption with dynamic keys – but you can use images only
- Suitable for high traffic sites – automated caching of dynamic generated images and CSS
- Automatic font-search (standard system font-paths)
- Supports the new modern UI style of WordPress 3.8
- Native support for Enlighter Syntax Highlighter to display E-Mail Addresses within highlighted content (requires Enlighter v2.7)
- Includes the Liberation(tm) Fonts package
- TrueType as well as OpenType Fonts are supported
Text-Transformations
The @-sign as well as dot’s within the e-mail-addresses can be automatically replaced by different placeholders, e.g. mail(at)example{dot}org, to match your website’s corporate design.
Security Modes
Cryptex provides various obfuscation modes for E-Mail-Addresses:
- Plain Text – only text-transformations are applied – no use of images
- Single Image – the e-mail-address is expressed as a single image
- Multipart Image – the e-mail-address is splitted into two images, seperated by the @-sign in plain text
- Advanced Multipart Image – the craziest one: each part (divided by dot’s and @ sign) is displayed as a seperate image, the dividers as plain text
| Domain | Exposures | Headers | Last Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| p*i*a*u*t*r*i*h*d*u*s*h.com | F | Jul 30, 2026 | |
| t*l*-*y*r*e*a.fr (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 27, 2026 | |
| p*a*i*-*c*a*e*.com | F | Jul 27, 2026 | |
| v*l*a*h*r*s*g*a.com | F | Jul 24, 2026 | |
| g*o*e*e*k*o*n*n.nl (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 23, 2026 | |
| i*t*a*o*.org (WP 7.0.1) | F | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| a*m*r*e*.uk | F | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| t*e*s*h*t*s*o*l*e*g.de | F | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| m*s*k*l*r*u*.de (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 20, 2026 | |
| j*s*h*i*t.de | F | Jul 17, 2026 | |
| d*u*s*h*c*.com | F | Jul 17, 2026 | |
| d*u*s*h*b*.com | F | Jul 17, 2026 | |
| d*u*s*h*b*.com | F | Jul 17, 2026 | |
| b*u*d*r*v*x.com (WP 6.9.4) | F | Jul 16, 2026 | |
| a*r*s.eu | D | Jul 16, 2026 | |
| n*d*i*l.com | F | Jul 14, 2026 | |
| p*t*r*f*i*c*-*e*d*s*g*.de | A | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| x*-*e*n*r*e*u*g*t*s*-*z*.com | F | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| x*-*d*u*s*h*u*s*m*c*e*-*6*.com | F | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| x*-*d*u*s*h*e*t*r*u*a*d*r*r*n*c.com | F | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| r*z*o*l*n.de (WP 6.9.4) | D | Jul 11, 2026 | |
| a*l*n*.com (WP 5.0.25) | F | Jul 10, 2026 | |
| a*u*m*d*a*w*b*e*i*n.c*m.au (WP 5.2.9) | F | Jul 9, 2026 | |
| l*v*l*e*o*s*e.fr (WP 5.7.15) | F | Jul 8, 2026 | |
| e*o*u*m*c.com | F | Jul 8, 2026 | |
| g*m*s*u*e*t*.com (WP 4.9.26) | F | Jul 7, 2026 | |
| m*e*e*k*.com (WP 7.0) | F | Jul 5, 2026 | |
| e*o*u*m*c.de | F | Jul 4, 2026 | |
| d*l*k*e*s*n.se (WP 6.9.4) | F | Jun 29, 2026 | |
| v*p*b.de (WP 6.9.4) | F | Jun 16, 2026 | |
| j*d*b*r*.de (WP 6.9.4) | F | Jun 13, 2026 | |
| a*n*r*s*k*r*m*k.de (WP 7.0) | F | Jun 13, 2026 | |
| n*c*l*-*c*e*r.com | F | Jun 2, 2026 |