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Temly Disable Emoji completely disables WordPress emoji functionality to improve your website performance by removing:
<ul>
<li>Emoji detection scripts from frontend and admin</li>
<li>Emoji stylesheets from frontend and admin </li>
<li>DNS prefetch requests to emoji CDN servers</li>
<li>TinyMCE emoji plugin from the editor</li>
<li>Email emoji conversion</li>
</ul>
This lightweight plugin requires no configuration – simply activate and enjoy faster page load times.
Features: 
* Removes all emoji-related JavaScript and CSS 
* Eliminates DNS prefetch requests to external emoji servers 
* Works on both frontend and admin areas 
* No settings required – works immediately after activation 
* Compatible with all themes and plugins

Temly Disable Emoji

Completely removes WordPress emoji scripts, styles, and DNS prefetch requests to improve site performance.

Sybre Waaijer

Quickly enable or disable emojis conversion with an option.
When you disable the option, Emoji Settings stops the conversion of ASCII smilies like <code>:)</code> and <code>:D</code> to images on any WordPress installation. This plugin also prevents changing real emojis to Twemoji (Twitter) images. It achieves this by removing several default WordPress scripts.
You can find the option at “Settings > Writing” (<code>/wp-admin/options-writing.php</code>).
This plugin does not prevent real emojis (inserted via an emoji keyboard) from being stored and outputted on your website.
<h4>Emoji conversion enabled by default</h4>
I wrote this plugin with a WordPress.com-like environment in mind, giving users an option without overriding standard WordPress behavior.
You can change this behavior via filter <code>cw_emoji_overrides</code>. Refer to the code for instructions.
<h4>Does more than “Disable Emojis”</h4>
Emoji Settings also fixes Character Encoding issues on sites originally installed with WP 4.2 or lower. And this plugin correctly removes the conversion of emojis in the admin area, for example, from post titles.
<h4>Translating</h4>
You can contribute by translating Emoji Settings via the sidebar on this page.

Emoji Settings

Thanks Sybre for giving back this option!



Options, not decisions

Convenient and useful

Emoji Settings adds an option to your Writing Settings page to toggle emoji conversion to images.

Temly Disable Emoji vs Emoji Settings