This is the documentation for the Joomla 3 version of Email Protector.
There is currently no Joomla 4 version of Email Protector.
There is currently no Joomla 4 version of Email Protector.
Regular Labs Email Protector is a Joomla! system plugin that cloaks email addresses in your Joomla! website, making them unreadable for spambots.
Email Protector is a replacement for the Joomla! core email cloaking plugin, and it's completely free.
With this plugin, email addresses are cloaked in a safer and more stable way compared to the core plugin. Also, Email Protector takes effect across the entire website, as opposed to the core plugin which only cloaks email addresses inside articles content.
Here is a table that compares the features of the core plugin with Email Protector:
| Core Plugin | Email Protector | |
|---|---|---|
| Included in Joomla | FREE | |
| Cloak email addresses inside articles | Yes | Yes |
| Option to display email addresses as mailto links or as plain text | Yes | Yes |
| Cloak email addresses inside modules, 3rd party components and template overrides | No | Yes |
| Option to display email addresses as they were originally entered | No | Yes |
| Cloaking when javascript fails or is disabled | No | Yes |
| Option to ignore email addresses in feeds | No | Yes |
| Option to ignore email addresses in PDFs | No | Yes |
| Option to ignore email addresses in Javascript | No | Yes |
| Get fast support to the extension via the Support forum | No | Yes |
| Core Plugin | Email Protector | |
| Included in Joomla | FREE |