Transpose Email Plugin

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Overview
Features
Requirements
Installing
The JavaScript Function
Customizing
ChangeLog
To Do
Download
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License
Questions or Bugs
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Overview:

Keeps your email safe from spammers when you want to use mailto: links.

Features

  • Easy to use and edit.
  • Doesn’t require any external program to encrypt your email.
  • Function can be called muliple times on the same page, just by passing different email addresses.
  • Uses the user’s default email program like Outlook Express to send the email. So, will work even your host has disabled the mail() function of php as well as SMTP.
  • Doesn’t require reencrypting of your email address in case it changes. All you need to do is update the arguments to the function.

Requirements:

Installing

  1. Download Transpose Email Plugin.
  2. Extract the contents of ald-transpose-email.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Activate the Plugin.
  4. Read the Customizing section.

The JavaScript Function:

Transpose_Email(userid,domain,subject)

  • userid - The part that comes before the @ in your email address e.g. my email address is me@ajaydsouza.com, so I enter it as me
  • domain - The part that comes after the @ in your email address e.g. my email address is me@ajaydsouza.com, so I enter it as ajaydsouza.com
  • subject - The subject line of the email you will receive.

Customizing:

Example: <a href="javascript:Transpose_Email('user','domain.com','About your site') ">Email Me</a>

Ofcourse, change domain.com and user to that of your email address. Change the subject line if you want to.

ChangeLog:

  • 1.2 - Code remains same. Minor corrections to Readme file
  • 1.1 - Moved the javascript function to an external .js file. Now the plugin works even when your blog is served as application/xhtml+xml on browsers that support it, e.g Firefox
  • 1.0 - Release

To Do:

  • Add button to Quicktags Toolbar

Downloads

Current Version is 1.2

I’ve spent a good deal of time and money developing and maintaining the plugin. If you like the plugin and find it useful and would like to donate something for my work please do click the Paypal Donate button below. The payment is secure. I haven’t filled in any amount. Feel free to donate what you please. Any amount is welcome. Thank you :)

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Questions or Bugs

Known bugs:

When serving your blog as application/xhtml, the JavaScript code doesn’t work in Firefox and possibly other browsers that recognize application/xhtml. It will work fine in IE and Opera. Resolved in v1.1 :)

If you have any questions or would like to report any bugs then please visit the support forum.

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35 Total Responses to “ Transpose Email Plugin ”

Comments:

  1. Sam Stevens says:
    June 16th, 2005 at 7:30 pm

    The “Email Me” link example above should open my email client, correct? I’m using Thunderbird and clicking the link in Firefox doesn’t trigger Tbird to open a blank email. IF I view this page in IE though, it works.

    Good idea for a plugin though! When it’s Mozilla-friendly, it will find its way onto a few of my sites fo’ sho’.

  2. Ajay says:
    June 16th, 2005 at 8:25 pm

    Hello Sam,

    Thank you for pointing this out to me. After a lot of trial and error I finally figured out the solution to the problem.

    I was serving my blog as application/xhtml as opposed to text/html

    Firefox, unlike Opera and IE, recognizes application/xhtml.
    As result, it kept throwing up a javascript error for undefined function.

    A temporary work-around is to serve the blog as text/html.
    I hope I can find a permanent solution to this problem.

    You will see that the above example works in Firefox now.
    Thanks once again for pointing this out.

  3. Ajay says:
    June 17th, 2005 at 7:19 am

    Hi Sam,

    Released 1.2 of the plugin which resolves the issue.

  4. Sam Stevens says:
    June 20th, 2005 at 1:24 am

    Talk about fast turnaround! Thanks Ajay!! The plugin works great. I’m using it on a new site, http://www.rememberjerry.com/. Very useful indeed.

    cheers
    SAM :)

  5. Ajay says:
    June 20th, 2005 at 6:10 am

    A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do ;)

    Anyway, it seemed rather ironical that my own plugin wasn’t working on my own site!

  6. AkeB0N0 says:
    August 1st, 2005 at 12:19 am

    Hi,

    Can you add into javascript status bar options!!! We can change status bar messages.

  7. Dean says:
    August 1st, 2005 at 5:11 am

    Thanks for a helpful plugin!

    I modified the code here in a couple of ways Ajay — I hope you don’t mind of course!

    * I removed the “subject line” part of the javascript code, as I prefer not to have this in my link (and so I use the code on my page slightly differently of course to allow for no subject line specification).

    Also, the readme in the download zip file has references to “Bad Behavior” plugin (line 24 of readme file, and also line 33 for more information).

    Also too, the download is v1.1, but here on your site you mention 1.2 — is there a later version not available yet to download?

    I put the details on my blog: http://www.deankennedy.com/blog/2005/08/01/testing-transpose-plugin/

    One other thing: I needed to create a folder in my WP plugins folder called “ald-transpose-email” to hold the external javascript file, as that his how it is referenced in the php plugin file. (I could have altered the php file to remove this folder reference as an alternative to creating the folder!)

    I hope the readme comments and extra folder info help for your next version!

    Kind regards from Melbourne downunder.

  8. Ajay says:
    August 1st, 2005 at 6:40 am

    I have updated the Readme and released v1.2

    No changes in the code, but just the readme for now.

    Additionally, I don’t mind you modifying the code as long as you credit me for my work :)

  9. Ajay says:
    August 1st, 2005 at 3:39 pm

    AkeB0N0 Says:
    Hi,

    Can you add into javascript status bar options!!! We can change status bar messages.

    Are you saying as part of this plugin or as another plugin?

  10. Mardeg says:
    November 8th, 2005 at 1:17 pm

    There are CSS methods available to obfuscate your email address. The one in my link uses CSS to shrink a generated random-text logo down giving the illusion of normal text. I spiced it up by adding colour shading options and a dozen fonts to choose from. The more obfuscation methods in use, the less chance the email harvesters will decode them all.

  11. Ajay says:
    November 8th, 2005 at 2:02 pm

    Have checked it out and looks quite good.

    However, everytime the user needs to change the email address it will require him to recode it.

    Using this plugin, he just needs to change little to change the email address he wants to use.

  12. Barry says:
    December 10th, 2005 at 6:31 am

    Hmmm….I think I like it, except that I think it could be done about as well without requireing javascript….here’s my idea:

    Write it instead as a filter/function/etc. which is processed by PHP and takes as an input the same information, but generates a mailto: link that uses entity encoding for the characters. The last time I checked, entity encoded email addresses weren’t harvested by spammers either.

  13. Ajay says:
    December 10th, 2005 at 10:09 am

    Well, there are other plugins that tackle spam harvesting by encoding links.

    This plugin isn’t made for automatic protection but only when you actually feel the need of inserting your email address directly.

    I can’t be sure, but there may be a time that entity encoded email addresses will be decoded, unless you can come with your very own code.

  14. Barry says:
    December 11th, 2005 at 3:44 am

    Actually I just found yet another
    plugin     that does an entity encoded email obfuscation. Thanks for pointing this one out to me.

  15. Becky says:
    March 11th, 2006 at 12:09 am

    Wowee, thanks! I have just spent the better part of an hour trying to code my old javascript cloak-the-email-address script in my wordpress site, without any success at all. This is so much easier! Thanks for your work!

  16. Benoy says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    Ajay thanks again for another easy plugin which is quite useful.

  17. Ajay says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    You’re welcome :)

  18. ziranfaze.com says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    I just installed this plugin but does not work with webmail like Gmail. When I click my own email link, it will callout my Outlook Express instead of Gmail New Message.

    Normally if I use mailto it can turn to Gmail. Is there any work around?

    Thanks

  19. Yuriy says:
    September 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    Yes, I have the same problem as ziranfaze…. I think we should find another plugin here http://www.somethinkodd.com/emailshroud/

    Thanks.



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