Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator WordPress Plugin
Email and normal links are obfuscated, hiding them from spambots. It automatically encodes each link, then uses JavaScript to decode and show them.
Spam is website publishers #1 concern, we wanna share our and our visitors' emails to those who should have access to them, but don't want spam harvesters stealing them and sending garbage to us. A lot of techniques had been developed to hide our emails from these delinquents, while having them shown to real people.
And together with spam harvesting, on 15 June 2009, Matt Cutts, a well known software engineer of Google, announced that Google Bot will no longer ignore nofollowed links for PageRank, and now we lose PR/link juice for every link we add to our pages, even if we use rel="nofollow" on them. So, now we must hide links from Search Engines too!
I've been searching for an ultimate obfuscation solution for both emails and URLs, that would be user-friendly for me the content publisher, and for my visitors. I've seen a lot of solutions, some that inspired me, but no
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Usage of Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 74 to 41 — down 33 (-44.6%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 41 | -5 |
| June 2024 | 46 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 48 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 48 | -1 |
| March 2024 | 49 | -11 |
| February 2024 | 60 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 61 | -8 |
| December 2023 | 69 | -2 |
| November 2023 | 71 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 71 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 72 | -2 |
| August 2023 | 74 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 74 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 74 | — |
Themes used with Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Twentyfourteen |
| 2 | Customizr |
| 3 | Fringetech |
| 4 | Peak |
| 5 | Thematic |
| 6 | Ashrae |
| 7 | Nado |
| 8 | Darklight |
| 9 | The-cause |
| 10 | Atahualpa367 |
| 11 | 2rc |
| 12 | Mocha |
| 13 | Platform |
| 14 | Enfold |
| 15 | Super-skeleton |
| 16 | Opolionlaw |
| 17 | Webly |
| 18 | Nichole-bernier |
| 19 | Askit-ooold |
| 20 | Firebird |
Sites running Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator
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