Sohaus

Sohaus Clean Emoji Slugs keeps WordPress permalinks clean when editors use emoji in post titles.
By default, WordPress may include emoji or encoded emoji characters in generated slugs. This plugin removes emoji, pictograms, dingbats, variation selectors and related characters from slugs while leaving the original title unchanged.
Example:
❤️ I love WordPress 🩸
Becomes:
i-love-wordpress
The plugin works automatically when a post, page or supported public post type is saved.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Removes emoji from slugs.</li>
<li>Cleans already encoded emoji in existing slugs when a post is saved, but does not bulk-update old posts automatically.</li>
<li>Keeps emoji in post titles.</li>
<li>Works on save and update.</li>
<li>Supports posts and pages by default.</li>
<li>Does not add database tables.</li>
<li>Does not track users.</li>
<li>Does not send any data to external services.</li>
</ul>

Sohaus Clean Emoji Slugs

Removes emoji and special symbols from WordPress slugs while keeping them in post titles.

Isrg Rajan

WordPress Emoji Remover & Sanitizer is a lightweight plugin designed to disable and remove the default WordPress Emoji scripts and styles. It helps to:
<ol>
<li>Remove Emoji CSS from the admin dashboard and <code>wp-head</code>.</li>
<li>Remove the <code>wp-includes/js/emoji.js</code> script from all pages.</li>
<li>Disable TinyMCE emoji support.</li>
<li>Prevent WordPress from loading emoji-related DNS prefetch requests.</li>
<li>Improve page loading speed and performance by eliminating unnecessary resources.</li>
</ol>
This plugin is fully compatible with WordPress 6.7.2 and PHP 7.4+.
<h3>Plugin Settings</h3>
By default, all the features are enabled. To disable any option, navigate to Settings > Emoji Sanitizer, select/deselect the desired option(s), and click Save Changes.

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