WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses for WordPress Plugin Directory
WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses is a WordPress app, with a 4.6 average rating from 33 reviews, as of Jul 15, 2026.
WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Online Optimisation. With a rating of 4.6★ from 33 reviews.
AppRanks data: WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses ranks #0 in Antispam on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
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WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Antispam category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 33 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
- +High average rating (4.6★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Online Optimisation — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (33) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses works
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Protect and encode email addresses safely from spambots, spamming and other robots. Easy to use out-of-the-box without any configuration.
Features
Full page protection for emails
Instant results (No confiruation needed)
Protects mailto links, plain emails, email input fields, RSS feeds and much more
Autmoatic protection technique detection (Our plugin chooses automatically the best protection technique for each email)
Exclude posts and pages from protection
Automatically convert plain emails to mailto-links
Automatically convert plain emails to png images
Supports rot13 encoing, escape encoding, CSS directions, entity encoding and much more
Deactivate CSS directions manually for backwards compatibility
Shortcode support: [wpml_mailto]
Template tag support: wpml_mailto() and wpml_filter()
The plugin combines the best email protection methods (CSS, PHP and JavaScript techniques).
Free Website Check We offer you a free tool to test if your website contains unprotected emails. You can use our website checker by clicking here
Easy to use The plugin works out-of-the-box to protect your email addresses. After activating the plugin, all options are already set for protecting your emails and mailto links.
Documentation The plugin works out-of-the-box to protect your email addresses. All settings are default set to protect your email addresses automatically with the best method available.
If you want to manually create protected mailto links, just use the shortcode ([wpml_mailto]) within your posts or use the template tags (wpml_mailto() or wpml_filter()) in your theme files.
Shortcode `[wpml_mailto email=”…”]…[/wpml_mailto]` Create a protected mailto link in your posts:
[wpml_mailto email=”[email protected]”]My Email[/wpml_mailto]
It’s also possible to add attributes to the mailto link, like a target:
[wpml_mailto email=”[email protected]” target=”_blank”]My Email[/wpml_mailto]
Shortcode `[wpmt_protect]…[/wpmt_protect]` Protect content using our plugin that is not encodedby default (E.g. some ajax loaded values):
[wpmt_protect]YOUR CONTENT YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR EMAILS[/wpmt_protect]
It’s also possible to customize the encoding type using “protect_using”. Possible values: char_encode, strong_method, without_javascript, with_javascript:
[wpmt_protect protect_using=”…”]YOUR CONTENT YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR EMAILS[/wpmt_protect]
Template tag `wpml_mailto( $email [, $display] [, $attrs] )` Create a protected mailto link in your template like:
Template tag `wpml_filter( $content )` Filter given content to protect mailto links, shortcodes and plain emails (according to the settings in admin):
Category rankings
As of Jul 15, 2026- Antispam#0of 70Top 1%
- Email address#0of 2Top 1%
- Hide#0of 55Top 1%
- Mailto#0of 5Top 1%
- Email#49of 718Top 7%
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Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses?
WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.6-star rating from 33 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Antispam 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 Online Optimisation.
Who uses WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses?
Currently around 8,000 active stores have installed WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Antispam category on WordPress.