Putting Your Email On Your Blog and Not Getting Spammed?

[Andrew Michaels]

Hey. I have a wordpress blog and I'd like to include my email address, but I don't want to get spam. Is there some way to avoid this? Some people break it up, like, b ob @superthing .net, and have people delete the spaces. Not sure if that works. Thoughts? Thanks.

[Minsc]

Could use Javascript...

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("bob" + "@");
document.write("superthing.net");
</script>

Something like that in the body.

Or you could make an image of your email address and use that.
Or you could put spaces in it like you did(or maybe "boDELETEb@superthing.net" and have people get rid of the extra text).

Maybe something like this:

<span>Bo</span><span>b<span>@</span>su</span><span>pert<span>th<span>ing</span>.net</span></span>
Which should render as bob@superthing.net if I wrote it right but should confuse email extracting bots.

[Mike]

You could make it an image, like a jpeg.

[Andrew Michaels]

Thanks. That worked great.

Originally Posted by Minsc

Could use Javascript...

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("bob" + "@");
document.write("superthing.net");
</script>

Something like that in the body.

Or you could make an image of your email address and use that.
Or you could put spaces in it like you did(or maybe "boDELETEb@superthing.net" and have people get rid of the extra text).

Maybe something like this:

<span>Bo</span><span>b<span>@</span>su</span><span>pert<span>th<span>ing</span>.net</span></span>
Which should render as bob@superthing.net if I wrote it right but should confuse email extracting bots.

[shiatsustudent]

If you are on wordpress then you could use the wp_contactform plugin. The user types the message hits send and you receive and email but the address is hidden.

[andrew]

I use a contact form for my business site. I was going to have a list of like 10 different emails, but the amount of spam that would produce would be sick. Generally I like to just write an email than fill a form, but I suppose it'll also help filter out less serious messages.

[MartialDev]

Originally Posted by shiatsustudent

If you are on wordpress then you could use the wp_contactform plugin. The user types the message hits send and you receive and email but the address is hidden.

I get a few spams through my contact form every week.

[jpfieber]

I use the Obfuscate Email plugin (WordPress plugins at coffee2code.com) on my site (http://itsvista.com). It converts your address to ASCII codes, so scrappers don't recognize it as an e-mail, but it appears properly to viewers. If you want to see it in action, go to my 'About' page, where I list my address at the end of the page. View source and you'll see all the codes instead of letters.

[Nico Kempe]

I like the way php.net comments e-mail addresses are displayed:
someaddy [at] somedomain [dot] com

although that does require some (brain) action from your visitors so it's more suitable for tech sites than, say, sites about cooking.

In that last case, I'd go for the JavaScripts or one of the other tips listed here.