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By Allan Odgaard on Sep 29, 2007 | Reply

Thanks a lot for the plug-in, I really like the idea of storing the ROT13-encoded text in the ID of a containing tag and then have the JS just replace the content based on the ID.

One problem though is when the email address is in the argument-part of a tag, like:

<a href="mailto:someone@example.com">Mail me</a>

This is why I had to go with a “full” HTML parser, i.e. to have it then replace the entire <a href="…">…</a> construct with JS.

I am btw curious as to why you chose to put the human-decodable email in the info of the tag, and add an extra span. I.e. would the following not be enough for the JS to do its magic:

<abbr id="emob-fbzrbar@rknzcyr.pbz">someone [at] example ~dot~ com</abbr>

By Allan Odgaard on Sep 29, 2007 | Reply

I changed @ into @ to not have emob work on my comment (it mangled it), so you may want to test this.

Btw: editing one’s comment has the comment shown again with a) all non-ASCII (UTF-8) characters as wrong and b) all entities have been decoded to actual value.

Also c) several tags gets stripped, like <pre>, but I assume that is more of a WordPress “security” setting.

By Andy on Oct 22, 2007 | Reply

I see that the plugin also works on static pages (not blog pages). That’s great - thanks!

By count-0 on Oct 23, 2007 | Reply

Thank You for this plugin and the continous improvements, but after installing the current version 1.1 from WP plugin dictionary I recognized garbled output in case an obfuscated address is handled by ‘the_excerpt()’. Being a WP newbie (< 10 days) I am still not in the core code, but to me it seems like there is the script tag missing in conjunction with the_excerpt(). The HTML produced:

   user {at} mailsystem(.)com
   var mailNode = document.getElementById('emob-hfre {at} znvyflfgrz(.)pbz-36');
   var linkNode = document.createElement('a');

   linkNode.setAttribute('href', 'mailto:user\@mailsystem.com');
   tNode = document.createTextNode('user {at} mailsystem(.)com');
   linkNode.appendChild(tNode);
   linkNode.setAttribute('id', 'emob-hfre {at} znvyflfgrz(.)pbz');

   mailNode.parentNode.replaceChild(linkNode, mailNode);

My actual workaround is simply to write a teaser text for articles having an email address appearing in the first 20 words which shouldn’t be the case to often anyway.

But if time and space allowed a fix “in situ” would be very nice. Of course should I stumble accross a solution I will report immediately.

By Cakes on Oct 29, 2007 | Reply

Thanks for this plugin, we have been using it for a while and it’s very good. But I don’t like how it hides the visual output of the email address with a {at} and (.) in this new version. Is there a way to change this?

Maybe something to consider in the future is the option to use an image for the @ symbol, since I would like the user to see a normal email address, how they traditionally appear.