verbaste

<p>VB Disable Emojis is a lightweight performance plugin that completely removes emoji support from WordPress.</p>
<p>It disables all emoji-related scripts, styles and integrations across the entire site:<br />
– frontend<br />
– admin panel<br />
– TinyMCE editor<br />
– RSS feeds<br />
– emails</p>
<p>There are no settings, no configuration and no database writes.<br />
Activate the plugin to disable emojis. Deactivate it to restore default WordPress behavior.</p>
<p>Perfect for websites where emojis are not intentionally used and performance overhead should be minimized.</p>
<p>VB Disable Emojis is developed by VerBaste, a product brand of MATRO Digital Studio.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove emoji scripts and styles</li>
<li>Disable emojis in TinyMCE</li>
<li>Disable emojis in RSS feeds and emails</li>
<li>Remove emoji CDN resource hints</li>
<li>Zero configuration</li>
<li>Zero UI</li>
<li>Zero database usage</li>
</ul>


VB Disable Emojis

Completely disables WordPress emoji scripts and styles on frontend and backend. No settings, no UI, zero overhead.

Sybre Waaijer

<p><strong>Quickly enable or disable emojis conversion with an option.</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can find the option at “Settings > Writing” (<code>/wp-admin/options-writing.php</code>).</p>
<p>This plugin does not prevent real emojis (inserted via an emoji keyboard) from being stored and outputted on your website.</p>
<h4>Emoji conversion enabled by default</h4>
<p>I wrote this plugin with a WordPress.com-like environment in mind, giving users an option without overriding standard WordPress behavior.</p>
<p>You can change this behavior via filter <code>cw_emoji_overrides</code>. Refer to the code for instructions.</p>
<h4>Does more than “Disable Emojis”</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Translating</h4>
<p>You can contribute by translating Emoji Settings via the sidebar on this page.</p>


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.

VB Disable Emojis vs Emoji Settings