wpemailencoder.com is down

Same problem, no documentation to use the plugin.

Hi,
I have the same error when I want to check if the plugin works fine at protecting the email addresses of my WordPress installation: wpemailencoder.com isn’t working. I have the following error:

“There has been a critical error on this website.”

How can I check the plugin is correctly doing its job?

Thanks in advance for your help, much appreciated,

I run WordPress 6.4.1 with 2.1.9 email encoder plugin.

I have the feeling this plugin doesn’t work anymore: when I inspect the HTML code of the contact page of my website, I can see the email is not obfuscated anymore.
I will look for another plugin.

I have the feeling this plugin doesn’t work anymore: when I inspect the HTML code of the contact page of my website, I can see the email is not obfuscated anymore.

Your browser’s web inspector will show you the resulting code after javascript has run. That’s why you see a readable email address in your HTML. If you use your browser’s “view source” instead, you will see that your email addresses are, in fact, obfuscated.

Thanks a lot @alexanderbailey: when I look at the actual source code, I can’t see the email address anymore, meaning the plugin still does a good job.

Anyway, their webpage still returns a 500 error which is not reassuring.

2nd December 2023 – wpemailencoder.com still down and showing a message “There has been a critical error on this website”

??

The plugin’s website is back online, but I don’t think we’ve seen any support responses from the developer here in a long time.

Thanks for letting us know @aztopdavid

You’re welcome. I’d like to continue using this plugin, but the author hasn’t responded to Support topics in over six months, and “Issues resolved in last two months” are at zero! Even though an update was released a day ago, the main page still indicates “tested up to 6.3.2” rather than 6.4.2 and there are multiple vulnerability reports (for plugin versions up through 2.1.8 and 2.1.9) listed in Wordfence Intelligence: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/email-encoder-bundle

• This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by aztopdavid.

Thanks to this thread and @alexanderbailey, I think I’m getting a better understanding of why I’m seeing my obfuscated data when searching Page Source results for Safari in the Developer tools. Here’s a link to my post about it. It seems that the source search feature in Safari combines the source and the inspector data? Because when you actually just read through the source code, without searching, the data I’m concerned is exposed is nowhere to be found. I also copied and pasted the source into a text doc and searched that to be sure, and it also wasn’t found. So that’s good news.

I’m still not sure why I got spam to an obfuscated email associated with a button on my page… I know there are many ways to have email compromised, but this is a very new email address, and not a logical one. So either someone manually harvested it, or is using some other scraping method?

I just got pushed an update today for WP Email Encoder, so it appears to be actively maintained. I am a little bummed about the lack of responses from the developer and concerned about the vulnerabilities that @aztopdavid points out. I’d buy the guy/gal(?) a coffee or even pay, if there appeared to be a developer presence. The site seems nice enough, but no way of contacting them is a drag. Even following that Wordfence report and searching @ironikus didn’t yield any results.

Thanks @ballou for your post here, I have the same concerns about the lack of support of this plugin and its vulnerabilities.
I guess I’d better install another plugin but I just don’t know which one to pick. I’m keen to pay for it, I just want to make sure the email address on my website is really obfuscated.

Does anyone have one to recommend?

Hey everyone,

Glad to see some activity here. ??
The website error was fixed last month.

I can assure you that the plugin continues to work and is maintained whenever I can fit it in my schedule ( or when some serious issues occur).

Just note that I offer this plugin entirely for free. There is no money made with it (quite the contrary, actually), and I gladly offer it to everyone.
Thus, you can imagine that it is not on the top of my priority list – hence the slow responses.

I’ll release a new version soon that addresses many of the requests from the past months.

Have a great day!

@alexanderbailey @patrickhaond @needhelpwiththat @hj @ballou @aztopdavid

Thanks for the reply @ironikus!

Thank you @ironikus !

Very understandable @ironikus, thanks!