Plan Left, a digital marketing and software and website development firm has released Contact Camo for WordPress users. Contact Camo is a first-of-its-kind plugin that effectively hides or obfuscates email addresses from scammers, web scrapers and internet bots to help minimize spam and other nefarious, automated actors.In addition to protecting email addresses, Contact Camo also provides some granular control over how those protected email addresses can be displayed and interacted with by users that are very useful to site builders and also help make site maintenance easier.
Company president Matt Smith shares Plan Left’s reasoning for developing this plug-in. “We work with many non-profits and educational organizations that need to list contact info in directories on their website. Due to the public visibility of these and their large user base, our clients web properties are under constant threat from spammers and bots. We wanted to ensure that their user directories were safe from these threats while still being functional to visitors.”
Contact Camo simply provides a shortcode that can be used to manually obfuscate email addresses and control how the obfuscated email address is presented back to the end-user. The shortcode accepts parameters for CSS classes and an optional text label, so the sky’s the limit for display.
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“While working with these non-profit organizations was the catalyst for developing Contact Camo,” Smith continues, “Plan Left has advocated for privacy and spam protection since day one, with a commitment to SSL certificates and SMTP email sending from websites to protect visitor information. We have always advocated to not put email addresses on web pages, and we frequently employ honeypot and captcha protections on forms.We started offering firewall and DDOS protection as a standard for hosting in 2017.Privacy and security is at the core of what we do.”
While future iterations of this plug-in are in the works and will likely include b**** paid features for those who want maximum value and ease of use, Plan Left is eager to receive community feedback before finalizing next steps.
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