A Regular Labs system plugin that replaces the core Joomla email cloaking: it hides addresses from spambots across the whole site, modules and third-party extensions included, and copes without JavaScript.
Email Protector is a Regular Labs system plugin that takes over from the core Joomla email cloaking plugin. The goal is the same, keeping addresses out of reach of spambots, but the approach differs. The core plugin is a content plugin: it only handles text passed through content plugins, and it relies entirely on JavaScript and the outdated document.write call. Email Protector processes the entire page instead.
Features
- Cloaking across the whole site: articles, modules and third-party extensions.
- A mix of CSS and JavaScript: if the script fails, visitors still see the address, while bots still get a cloaked version.
- No document.write, so no clashes with other scripts on the page.
- A default mode that keeps each address in its original form: a mailto link stays a link, plain text stays text.
- As in the core plugin, addresses can instead be forced into mailto links or shown as plain text.
Compatibility
Joomla 4, 5 and 6. Version 6.3.12, last updated in JED on 13 September 2026.
