Pixeline's Email Protector is the #42 ranked spam app on WordPress, with a 4.3 average rating from 8 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Pixeline's Email Protector is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by pixeline. With a rating of 4.3★ from 8 reviews, it currently ranks #42 in the Spam category.
AppRanks data: Pixeline's Email Protector ranks #42 in Spam on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 8% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Pixeline's Email Protector is a well-rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Spam category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 8 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by pixeline — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (8) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Pixeline's Email Protector works
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This plugin provides an unobtrusive yet efficient protection against email harvesters / spambots.
Post/page authors may write email addresses in their article in the usual format (“[email protected]”) without exposing them to spam email harvesters. The plugin takes care of the obfuscation, implementing a graceful degradation technique focusing on usability so as to protect your email addresses from harvesters while keeping them usable to your human visitors.
The plugin replaces any email address found in posts, pages, comments and excerpts, and replace them by a bit of html markup that should deceive most email harvesters: <span class="pep-email">john(replace the parenthesis by @)doe.com</span>.
If javascript is available, it will display a clickable link and display the original email to the human user. Maximum usability, maximum protection.
Please rate the plugin if you like it.
Usage Write your email addresses inside your posts and pages as usual. When the plugin is activated, it will replace them by a human-readable html string that explains how to deduce the email address, and if javascript is available (99.9% of the time), the original email address will be displayed as a clickable mailto: link. For example:
Hello [email protected]. How are you today?
will become
John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com.
Additionally, you can specify what the mailto: link should look like by sticking a parenthesis inside of which you put the visible link text, like this:
Hello [email protected](John Doe). How are you today?
will become
John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com.
inside a theme If you need to protect emails inside your Theme’s files (like the footer.php for example), you can use the function safe_email() like this:
echo safe_email('[email protected]');
Theme-safe alternative (plugin can be disabled) If your theme must keep working even when this plugin is disabled, use a wrapper in your theme (for example in functions.php) and call that wrapper everywhere instead of calling safe_email() directly.
if ( ! function_exists( 'theme_safe_email' ) ) { function theme_safe_email( $email, $label = '' ) { $email = sanitize_email( $email ); if ( '' === $email ) { return ''; }
if ( function_exists( 'safe_email' ) ) { $payload = $email . ( '' !== $label ? '(' . $label . ')' : '' ); return safe_email( $payload ); }
$encoded_email = antispambot( $email ); $link_label = '' !== $label ? $label : $encoded_email; return '<a href="mailto:' . esc_attr( $encoded_email ) . '">' . esc_html( $link_label ) . '</a>'; } }<h3>Contribute</h3>
Github repo: https://github.com/pixeline/pixeline-email-protector
Category rankings
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Competitors & alternatives
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Where Pixeline's Email Protector stands in the Spam category
Pixeline's Email Protector ranks #42 of 541 apps in the Spam category, placing it in the top 8% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Pixeline's Email Protector?
Pixeline's Email Protector is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.3-star rating from 8 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Spam category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by pixeline.
Who uses Pixeline's Email Protector?
Currently around 800 active stores have installed Pixeline's Email Protector. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Spam category on WordPress.
Where does Pixeline's Email Protector rank on WordPress?
Pixeline's Email Protector currently sits at position #42 in the Spam category on WordPress. That places it in the top 8% of 541 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.