obfuscating message on user form

[cliffy]

When someone registers on the site and submits a new event, there is the following message against Organiser Details | Email field:

“You may want to consider obfuscating any e-mail address published on your site to best avoid it getting harvested by spammers.”

I understand the message but the person submitting the event won’t. Nor would they wish to follow the link to WP plugins as they have no admin rights to do this.

Why is the message there and how do I get rid of it please?

(on the same subject, do you know if Wordfence obfuscates ? I was thinking about installing it)

*I did search your site for ‘Obfuscating’ but didn’t find anything.

[Brian]

Hi,

Sorry for the issues with the obfuscating. I can help troubleshot this with you.

You right that is a little confusing there and not really helpful for non admins. That should actually just show in the admin I believe and is there because if you place emails out in the open spam bots can read them and start sending email to them.

The easiest solution right now is to just hide it, try this css:

#event_organizer.tribe-events-community-details tr td small {
display: none;
}

Add that css to your theme’s stylesheet or through a plugin such as Simple Custom CSS.

I think for obfuscating emails you have to put it directly in the coding and not sure Wordfence can do that.

We have this guide to making email a mailto link:

Link Organizer Email Address to a New Email

You maybe to modify it and use WordPress’s antispambot to obfuscate front end emails.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/antispambot

Let me know if that css works for you.

Thanks

[cliffy]

Hey Brian,
Thanks for the response. My plugin has a Quick CSS field so adding your code to that worked just great, thank you.
However, FYI – my “test user” went through the standard registration and login and has no admin rights at all so it is there for ALL to see.

I will look at obfuscating in general, thanks for the links.

[Brian]

You’re welcome, let me know if you have any other questions related to this.

Thanks

[Support Droid]

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[Leah]

Hello,

Thank you so much for reporting this. We are happy to tell you that a solution to this issue is part of our upcoming 3.12 release! We are doing the final testing and then the new version will be released. Keep an eye on your dashboard Updates page!

If you experience any difficulty with the update or find that the issue you reported in this thread is not resolved in 3.12, please open a new thread and we can help you. Thank you for your patience and support as we work to improve our plugins!

Best,
Leah
and The Events Calendar team

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