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Email Address Encoder

Figures from the Plugin Directory Census · as of 28 Aug 2026

100,000

Active installs, lower bound

Group: 100,000 to 999,999 installs

138

Days since the last release

Group median: 12

4.2

out of 5, from 160 ratings

Group median: 4.7 (10+ ratings)

50.0%

Support threads marked resolved, two months

Group: 68.2%

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What is Email Address Encoder and who is behind it?

Email Address Encoder is a WordPress plugin in the “Page building” field, made by Till Krüss. It has been listed in the directory since 21 Nov 2011, so for 14 years. Till Krüss has 3 plugins with at least 10,000 installs in the census. With 100,000 to 199,999 active installs it belongs to the 100,000 to 999,999 installs group; its last release came 138 days before the reference date, and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.

This is how the author describes the plugin on wordpress.org:

“A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.”

Self-description on wordpress.org, retrieved on 10 Sept 2026

When was Email Address Encoder last released?

The last release of Email Address Encoder came 138 days before the reference date; the group median is 12 days.

Each dot is a plugin in the 100,000 to 999,999 installs group, placed horizontally by days since its last release, on a logarithmic scale. The dashed line marks 365 days.

How many installs does Email Address Encoder have?

Email Address Encoder had 100,000 to 199,999 active installs on the reference date. Within its group, 219 plugins had a higher band and 179 plugins the same band.

The API reports installs only as a lower bound with one significant figure: 100,000 means at least 100,000 and at most 199,999.

Which WordPress version is Email Address Encoder tested with?

No directory notice: tested up to WordPress 7.0, while core stood at 7.1 on the reference date. The notice appears once the field falls below 6.9; that applied to 8.0% of the group.

How does Email Address Encoder compare with its group?

The group holds 399 listed plugins. 88.0% of them had a more recent last release than Email Address Encoder; 5.3% had no release for more than 365 days.

Figure	Email Address Encoder	Group, 399 plugins
Days since the last release	138	median 12
Rating	4.2 (160)	median 4.7 (10+ ratings)
Support threads marked resolved	50.0%	68.2%
Tested up to	7.0	47.6% on 7.1
Requires PHP	5.3	most often 7.4 (41.6%)

All values on the reference date

Slug	`email-address-encoder`
Author	Till Krüss
Active installs	100,000 to 199,999
Last release	138 days before the reference date
Tested up to	WordPress 7.0 · core on the reference date: 7.1
Requires WordPress	2.0
Requires PHP	5.3
Rating	4.2 out of 5 from 160 ratings
Support threads, two months	1 of 2 marked resolved
Listed since	21 Nov 2011
Total downloads	1,664,890, updates included
Tags	block, crawler, encryption, protection, spam

Tag	Plugins with 10,000+ installs and this tag	Rank by installs	Median days since release
block	36	6	17
crawler	2	1	1,094
encryption	1	1	138
protection	8	1	30
spam	20	7	38

Class of 2011

Email Address Encoder has been listed since 21 Nov 2011. Of the 107 plugins with 10,000+ installs added in 2011, 79.4% released within the 365 days before the reference date.

Same group, shared tags

Not a recommendation; the same figures for comparison. Alphabetical.

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Breadcrumb NavXT	800,000 to 899,999	57 days before the reference date	4.6 (132)
Content Views	100,000 to 199,999	8 days before the reference date	4.8 (333)
Crowdsignal Forms	200,000 to 299,999	53 days before the reference date	5.0 (3)
Gravity Forms Zero Spam	100,000 to 199,999	14 days before the reference date	4.3 (24)
Layout Grid Block	200,000 to 299,999	1,144 days before the reference date	4.7 (13)
NinjaFirewall	100,000 to 199,999	12 days before the reference date	4.9 (220)
PDF Embedder	300,000 to 399,999	14 days before the reference date	4.7 (518)
ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7	200,000 to 299,999	84 days before the reference date	5.0 (89)

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hafenstudios (2026): Email Address Encoder, profile in the Plugin Directory Census 01/2026, reference date 28 Aug 2026. https://hafenstudios.com/en/census/plugins/email-address-encoder/

Source and status

All values come from the full pull of the public wordpress.org API on 28 Aug 2026 (reference time 21:56:30 UTC). The analysis and text on this page are available under CC BY 4.0; the raw values come from the public wordpress.org API and are in the raw data. How the count was made is set out in the method, what the fields do not say under limits. hafenstudios builds WordPress plugins itself, see the conflict of interest. Corrections to moin@hafenstudios.com; a documented correction leads to a new version. From issue 02 this page will also show the change since the previous reference date. Collected and prepared by Horst Wenzel.

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