Giannis Kipouros

<p>Ensure the security of your WooCommerce store with Checkout Guard, a powerful plugin designed to fortify your checkout process. Checkout Guard offers a range of features to protect your online store from spam and unwanted orders.</p>
<h3>Key Features:</h3>
<h4>1. Email Restrictions:</h4>
<p>Easily restrict checkout for specific emails and email domains. Keep out unwanted traffic and enhance the security of your online transactions.</p>
<h4>2. Country-Based Restrictions:</h4>
<p>Implement checkout restrictions based on user billing country. Tailor your store’s accessibility and ensure a smoother shopping experience for your targeted audience.</p>
<h4>3. IP Address Blocking:</h4>
<p>Take control of your store’s security by restricting checkout for specific IP addresses. Safeguard against malicious activity and maintain a secure online environment.</p>
<h4>4. Total Cost Range Restrictions:</h4>
<p>Fine-tune your order regulations by restricting checkout for orders within a specified total cost range. Customize the limits to align with your store’s pricing policies.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> This plugin is an extension of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a> plugin, and it cannot function independently.</p>
<h3>Filters and Actions</h3>
<p>Multiple hooks exist that allows you to customize the plugin even further. If you need any extra hooks, please don’t hesitate to ask.</p>


Checkout Guard: Block Spam Woo Orders


Amazing plugin, Giannis, and a fantastic initiative. Thanks for publishing your hard work.  


Fantastic initiative, great concept.

Enhance Woo checkout security. Block spam orders and protect your revenue and customer's trust.

Till Krüss

<p>A lightweight plugin that protects plain email addresses and mailto links from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities. Has an effect on the posts, pages, comments, excerpts, text widgets and other filtered content. Works without JavaScript — just simple spam protection.</p>
<p>To see whether all your email addresses are properly protected, use the free <a href="https://encoder.till.im/scanner?utm_source=wp-plugin&utm_medium=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">page scanner</a> tool.</p>
<p>Other content (like phone numbers) can be protected using <code>[encode]</code> shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[encode]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]
[encode link="tel:+15551234567"]+1 (555) 123-4567[/encode]
</code></pre>
<h4>Premium Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Full-page protection</strong> that catches all email addresses</li>
<li><strong>Hardened protection</strong> using JavaScript and CSS techniques</li>
<li>Improved <strong>phone number</strong> protection</li>
<li>Built-in plugin support for <strong>ACF</strong>, <strong>Jetpack</strong>, <strong>WooCommerce</strong> and many others</li>
</ul>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://encoder.till.im/download?utm_source=wp-plugin&utm_medium=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium</a> version of Email Address Encoder.</p>
<p><a href="http://coderisk.com/wp/plugin/email-address-encoder/RIPS-r0bJqKvBws" rel="nofollow ugc"></a></p>


Email Address Encoder


This might work with page or post content, but does not with widgets. I can't recommend using this and suggest to use the plugin "Email Encoder" by Jannis Thuemming instead, since that does the job out of the box.


Not working with widgets

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

Checkout Guard: Block Spam Woo Orders vs Email Address Encoder