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Hello, when someone posts an event, it has an optional Email field. If you enter in your email, it will publish it as part of the event. I need a way to either mask it or encrypt it like on Craigslist you know how it changes it to 5545y285h8tr0@craigslist when you try to reply? Is there a way to mask or encrypt or any way around this for privacy/spam issues, I don’t want to publicly publish anyone’s email address. Thank you
Tran,
Thanks for reaching out! You can remove the Organizer email address by editing the Single Event Template.In order to do this, you’ll first need to perform a Template Override (https://theeventscalendar.com/what-are-template-overrides-and-how-do-i-do-them/). Once you’ve done that, find the ‘single.php’ file in your new Events folder and edit line 48 (this code: https://gist.github.com/4225116) to mask or encrypt the email as you wish.
Here’s a great PHP function that will encrypt the email using Javascript like you’re wanting to do: http://www.maurits.vdschee.nl/php_hide_email/
Let me know if that helps to solve your issue. Thanks!
Hi Casey,
Thank you for getting back to me. I’m new to WordPress and still need further help. Can you please help me with a couple of questions?1. How do I do the Template Override. I read that link but still unclear.
2. Where do I add the function? I.e. I would need to know where in the single.php the encryption function should be inserted
3. How that function is called by editing line 48Tran,
The instructions of how to do a template override are in the second paragraph:“If you would like to alter the stylesheet or any of the templates, simply create a new folder labeled “events” in your theme directory and copy over any of the files from within the plugin’s views folder (wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/).”
You can add that function I referenced in your functions.php file in your theme directory, then you should be able to do something like this on line 48: https://gist.github.com/4225116
Let me know if that helps clear things up. Thanks!
Tran,
Just checking back in. Were you able to get this resolved? Just let me know and I’ll close out this thread. Thanks!Hi Casey,
Sorry. I still haven’t figured it out. The second answers you gave were very similar to your first response. I just started learning WordPress at the end of November this year and have no prior knowledge of web design. Can I give you my log in to my WordPress website page and you can do it for me? I can pay you extra for the little tweak. Or can you send me the screen shots on where to go/what to type in?
Thank you so much in advance.Tran,
This is completed. Take a look at this test event here: http://www.minglebuds.com/event/test-event/You’ll notice that you can still see the email address, but if you view the page source, you’ll see this code where the email address displays:
https://gist.github.com/4347622
This prevents spam-bots from being able to view the email address. It’s important to note that users who do not have JavaScript enabled will not be able to view email addresses either.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have further questions, or if this solves your issue. Thanks!
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