Email Obfuscation Shortcode

There are a num­ber of rea­sons why you might want to dis­play an email address in a post: pro­vid­ing your own con­tact infor­ma­tion, pro­vid­ing a sup­port con­tact for a com­pa­ny or prod­uct you’re writ­ing about, and so on.

How­ev­er, sim­ply includ­ing an email address in your post is sim­ply ask­ing for an email har­vester to nab it, adding it to a spam­mer’s database.

Word­Press has a func­tion for obfus­cat­ing email address­es, mak­ing it all the more dif­fi­cult for the spam­mer’s to nab them with a harvester.

To add a short­code to your The­sis-pow­ered Word­Press install, sim­ply drop the fol­low­ing into your custom_functions.php file:

# Email obfuscation shortcode
function custom_email_shortcode( $atts , $content = null ) {
	return antispambot( $content );
}
add_shortcode( 'email', 'custom_email_shortcode' );

This is about as sim­ple as it gets. Usage: