Christian Leuenberg

<p>WordPress comes with a built-in replacement function that turns 🙂 etc. into emojis. If you need to switch this off, simply install and activate this plugin. It’s that simple.</p>


Really Disable Emojis

Disables the automatic emojis (smilies) replacement function. Really! :-)

Geek Goddess

<p>As of the release of 4.3, WordPress removed the “Formatting” section from the Writing settings.  Included in there was the option to turn off WordPress’s default action to convert text emoticons to image smilies.  This plugin does the same thing as unchecking the “convert to smilies” box that used to be available via the settings.</p>


Keep Emoticons as Text

Disables the default WordPress option of converting emoticons to image smilies

Really Disable Emojis vs Keep Emoticons as Text