Protect emails and phones

  • Resolved allfrom1supply

    (@allfrom1supply)


    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi Steven. I am using the slim-plus template so am unable to use the contact form. A customer asked us to remove him from the directory because he was concerned about spam. I would like to pick your brain.

    Is there a workaround with slim-plus to allow popping up a contact form so that the email is hidden?

    Or do you know if anyone is using email encoders like https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-encoder-bundle/#description successfully with Connections 9this plugin doesn’t work right with Connections and newest version of WordPress)? I guess some sort of obfuscation or captcha on each entry to show phone and email would at least slow down the scraping.

    Or do you have suggestions for another solution?

    I saw somewhere you had Market and possibly other newer templates but would like to avoid having to go that route, if possible, since I would have to rework all the styles again.

    Thank you.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    There is an add-on for Connections that encodes the email addresses. Here’s the link:

    I suspect you already have access to this add-on. If you do, you can download it from your account page.

    This will not encode the phone numbers—this is the first time for that request. You could try the other plugin to see if it works.

    I hope this helps, please let me know.

    Thread Starter allfrom1supply

    (@allfrom1supply)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    Well I did a ready fire aim! I purchased the plugin again and then realized it was installed. 🙂 In any case it is installed and active but I still don’t see encryption. I am not sure if it is something I did or another plugin interfering. The documentation said nothing else is required for setup. Is there some javascript that is supposed to be loaded that I can use to verify if it is getting installed?

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter allfrom1supply

    (@allfrom1supply)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    Or maybe I misunderstood. So if I look at the code I see clean html, but someone ‘scraping’ the site gets the encoded text?

    Plugin Author Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    If you view the page source and search for <n pynff="inyhr" this is the start of the encrypted email address. When viewing the page and a site visitor or using the browser inspection tool, you will see the decoded HTML.

    I hope this helps; please let me know.

    Thread Starter allfrom1supply

    (@allfrom1supply)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    Steven you are a magic man. I right clicked on the email and expected to see the encoding there, sort of like those obfuscation scripts, but when I view source I see what you said to look for. Awesome work. 👍

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