Aral Balkan

Say you've got a Wordpress plugin on your site that obfuscates email addresses (like Billy Halsey's Email Obfuscator script that I'm using; I'd link to it but his site has apparently been hacked and the URL is down) and you want to circumvent the obfuscation (say you want to display a github clone URL git starting with git@). What, oh what, do you do?

You use the unicode HTML entity for the @ sign of course, which is @.

(This entry is being made so I don't have to search for the darn code everywhere next time I need it.) :)

Comments

• Love this tweet blogging style. Good advice too. Only hope that bad robots will not learn to recognize it. ;)

  by Tek on 2008-12-22 06:34:44

• I was using this method of obfuscation for a while, but google now translates it into normal text when indexing so this no longer offers much spam protection. I googled my email address and consistently my website came up with the email unobfuscated in the search. The only thing i have found to work against spam is javascript text add-in. Also, signing up for google apps for your domain allows you to keep your custom domain based email but use gmail's back-end and spamguard.

  by Greg Ferrell on 2008-12-30 03:21:33

• Hey Greg, I wouldn't recommend it as a means of obfuscation, I'm actually using it so I _don't_ trigger my email obfuscation plugin when I do want to use asperand! :)

  by Aral on 2008-12-30 13:42:53

• Doh'! I misread that line. Thanks Aral.

  by Greg Ferrell on 2008-12-31 11:25:22

• You're already #2 on my Google results: http://www.google.com/search?q=unicode+at+sign

  by Mark Wubben on 2008-12-22 19:19:07

• Hehe, cool :)

  by Aral on 2008-12-22 20:55:34