email address isn’t encoded

Hi, @shotokan-karate-of-america.

The next update to Simple Social Icons will include email address protection:

https://github.com/studiopress/simple-social-icons/issues/14

I don’t have a release date for this just yet. If you’d prefer not to wait, though, you could modify the plugin with the same one-line amend displayed here:

https://github.com/studiopress/simple-social-icons/pull/61/files

I recommend taking a backup of your site before editing PHP files.

That does not seem to be effective – the ‘mailto’ email is still plainly appears in the HTML after changing line 395 of simple-social-icons.php to:

$output .= sprintf( $data[‘pattern’], ‘mailto:’ . esc_attr( antispambot( $instance[$profile] )), $new_window );

Thank you for testing that, @shotokan-karate-of-america.

You are welcome to try the development version of the plugin here, which works to obfuscate email addresses in my tests: https://github.com/studiopress/simple-social-icons/archive/develop.zip

You’d need to uninstall the existing plugin and replace it with that version.

You will also need to enter your address into the widget as ‘[email protected]’ rather than ‘mailto:[email protected]’.

The development version, after removing the mailto: in the email widget of simple-social-icons also does not hide the email address – there is still the same HTML href tag with the email address in the code…

Help?

I see the obfuscated ‘mailto’ icon link in your site source now:

(You’ll only see it in the raw site source; not in your browser’s dev tools.)

Ah! I see the same in my browser source, but Chrome’s code inspector still reports the unobfuscated link.

Great — thanks for letting us know. (And, yes, the view source/inspector difference is really confusing at first!)