Hiding Email
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Any advice on how to hide an email address from spambots when used in a link in a post?
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One way is to do it this way: username [at] mailprovider [dot] com, net or whatever. Another way is to use an image editing program and put you emai address in a jpg that you can then place on your site. A third option here at wordpress.com is to create a “contact” page. Some themes have a contact page template and others do not, but it can be done using as described here: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/how-do-i-make-a-contact-form/
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{wave to thesacredpath}
IMO the best way to post an email address is through the use of an email image generator.
Here are links to some free email address image generators:
(a) http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
(b) Here is the link to an email address generator that doesn’t have to be Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. thus it can be useful for those with their own websites.
generator – http://pribadi.or.id/email/
blog article – http://pribadi.or.id/diary/2005/05/12/newmod-email-image-generator/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/how-do-i-upload-pictures/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/put-an-image-in-your-sidebar/ -
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@thesacredpath
Thanks for making me smile. I was just preparing to publish a post on this today. I appreciate all the work you do helping bloggers on the forum too. :) -
You’re welcome. I kind of thought if you weren’t that you were probably adding it to your list.
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/nod to TT & tsp
Note: if you make your email address a link, it is visible to spambots (they read the code, not what’s visible on the page). If you use the methods mentioned above, don’t do anything silly like link the image to your email address. If someone wants to email you, they are going to have to type in your email address themselves; there’s no getting around it at this point.
If you plan to use the email address on your own blog, consider the contact form instead:
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Thanks! What about Javascripts? I’d like to be able to set it up as a link.
If I’m understanding the above correctly, I can generate an image, but still shouldn’t set it up as a link. I gathered a javascript was a way around this, but I tried to paste one into a post with no luck. I’m afraid I don’t really know what I’m doing.
As for the contact page, I don’t think my theme comes with one. But if I could set one up, I imagine I could link to the contact page and then use a contact form. Yes?
Thanks again for all the help. Nice to see such a vibrant community!
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Here at wordpress.com we cannot use javascript due to security concerns. We use a multi-user version of the WordPress software here at wordpress.com, and if a piece of javascript inserted into a blog or widget were to allow some unscrupulous character to compromise security, then it could adversely affect a lot of blogs, not just the one with the offending javascript.
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@cmoffett
You have posted into a thread on email address hiding. You have asked about javascript and about contact forms. Neither one is related to the subject matter of this thread.Here’s the link for contact forms that I got from the FAQs for you http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/how-do-i-make-a-contact-form/
Happy blogging :)
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@judyb12
Thanks for your vigilance. You are correct that my third sentence in the post above is in error. “Neither one is related to the subject matter of this thread.”@cmoffett – oops! sorry
lol … I’m fully aware that javascript can be used to hide email addresses. But in this thread thesacredpath had already posted the link that made it to clear to cmoffett in the post immediately above my own that javascript cannot be used on our blogs here at all. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=16983&page&replies=15#post-127216
And I provided the link to the contact form again because it seemed to me that it could have been easily overlooked. ;)
Cheers
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