For each found link, it is replaced by an obfuscated string, and a JavaScript function is called, having in its parameters the required data for JavaScript to decode and recreate the original link. By default it filters all texts in posts, comments, comments authors and text widgets, but you can manually use it anywhere you want.īasically, Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator plugin searches for links that contain URLs and emails on their href atrribute.
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It doesn’t use shortcodes, it works directly over HTML links, parsing and obfuscating them. If JavaScript is not available, it uses CSS to hide them.
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It uses ROT13 or cc8b to encode each link while PHP is building the page, then uses JavaScript to decode it and show it to the user. Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator plugin obfuscates emails and URL links, to hide them from spam harvesters and Search Endigne crawlers. I’ve seen a lot of solutions, some that inspired me, but none that would fit my needs. 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. So, now we must hide links from Search Engines too!
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A lot of techniques had been developed to hide our emails from these delinquents, while having them shown to real people.Īnd 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. 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.