stuartquin

Emoji Reactions allows visitors to a WordPress site to rate and react to 
content using Emojis.
<ul>
<li>Full set of emoji from <a href="http://emojione.com" rel="nofollow ugc">EmojiOne</a></li>
<li>Support for range of content – posts, pages, comments.</li>
<li>Track user votes – only one of each reaction per user per content item.</li>
<li>Shortcode support – add reactions anywhere in content</li>
</ul>

Emoji Reactions

Add emoji reactions to posts, pages and comments. Inspired by Slack

Stylish Smilies adds CSS classes to text-based emoticons. 
You can then reference these classes in your theme to style each emoticon differently:
<pre><code>.smiley {
/* Applies to all emoticons */
 color: black;
 font-weight: bold;
}

.biggrin {
/* Applies to :D only */
 background: green;
}
</code></pre>
This plugin affects the following smilies:
<pre><code>8-) cool
 8O eek
8-O eek
 :( sad
:-( sad
 :) smile
:-) smile
:-? confused
 :D biggrin
:-D biggrin
 :P razz
:-P razz
 :o surprised
:-o surprised
 :x mad
:-x mad
 :| neutral
:-| neutral
 ;) wink
;-) wink
</code></pre>

Stylish Smilies

Stylish Smilies adds CSS classes to text-based emoticons.

Emoji Reactions vs Stylish Smilies