Regular Labs Email Protector is a Joomla! system plugin that cloaks email addresses in your Joomla! website, making them unreadable for spambots.
Email Protector is a replacement for the Joomla! core email cloaking plugin.
With this plugin, email addresses are cloaked in a safer and more stable way compared to the core plugin. Also, Email Protector takes effect across the entire website, as opposed to the core plugin which only cloaks email addresses inside articles content.
Here is a table that compares the features of the core plugin with Email Protector:
| Feature | Core Plugin | Email Protector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Included in Joomla | FREE | PRO € 39 | |
| Cloak email addresses inside articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Display email addresses as mailto links or plain text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloak email addresses throughout modules, third-party components, and template output | No | Yes | Yes |
| Leave mailto links and plain-text addresses as originally entered | No | Yes | Yes |
| Keep addresses readable when JavaScript fails or is disabled | No | Yes | Yes |
| Image-based cloaking | No | No | Yes |
| Custom-text cloaking | No | No | Yes |
| Control protection inside inline JavaScript | No | Yes | Yes |
| Feed output | No separate settings | Fixed [AT] / [DOT] | No protection, [AT] / [DOT], or custom text |
| PDF output | No separate settings | Fixed [AT] / [DOT] | No protection, [AT] / [DOT], or custom text |
| JSON output | No separate settings | Fixed [AT] / [DOT] | No protection, [AT] / [DOT], or custom text |
| Access to Support Tickets | No | No | Yes |
| Included in Joomla | FREE | PRO € 39 | |