Temly

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.

tuxlog

wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.
There are a lot plugins for smiley support out there and some of them are really useful. 
Most of them don’t work out of the box and this is what wp-monalisa tries to achieve, giving you the ability to maintain your smilies and even turn them into img tags.
it’s easy and it smiles at you…what else do you want?
Features:
<ul>
<li>maintain your smilies in a separate directory</li>
<li>activate or deactivate smilies for posts or comments</li>
<li>replace smilies with img tags</li>
<li>extend or replace wordpress smiley replacement</li>
<li>while edit posts or pages, pops-up in a draggable meta-box</li>
<li>extends your comment form to give you visitors the freedom to smile 🙂</li>
<li>support for fckeditor (tested with v3.3.1)</li>
<li>fully integrated with BuddyPress, bbPress and wpForo</li>
</ul>
The video shows a short overview of what wp-monalisa can do for you. <iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uHXlELn27ko?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Credits: 
Thanks go to all who support this plugin, with hints and suggestions for improvment and specially to
<ul>
<li>Michal Maciejewski, polish translation</li>
<li>Denny from http://www.vau3.de for testing and giving input for the BuddyPress integration</li>
<li>FJ Bakry, Camisto (https://camisto.com) for indonesian translation</li>
</ul>

wp-Monalisa

wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.

Temly Disable Emoji vs wp-Monalisa