verbaste

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

marketingbende

Marketingbende Tiny Fixes bundles small WordPress cleanup fixes into one lightweight plugin. Each fix has its own toggle, and only enabled fixes register runtime hooks.
The first release enables emoji cleanup by default. Other fixes are opt-in from Settings > Tiny Fixes.
Included fix groups:
<ul>
<li>Performance cleanup, including emoji cleanup, embeds, Dashicons for guests, comment reply script, Heartbeat, asset query strings, and lazy loading helpers.</li>
<li>General cleanup, including generator output, RSD link, WLW manifest link, shortlinks, REST API discovery links, self pingbacks, smilies, attachment comments, and comment form cleanup.</li>
<li>SEO cleanup, including attachment page redirects, canonical redirect guessing, and archive title prefixes.</li>
<li>Admin cleanup, including dashboard widgets, Help tabs, Screen Options, block directory, remote block patterns, core block patterns, widget block editor, login screen tweaks, and admin bar visibility.</li>
<li>Admin noise controls for auto-update emails and the admin email verification prompt.</li>
<li>Privacy and security cleanup for X-Pingback output and author query enumeration.</li>
</ul>
The plugin does not add database tables, does not track visitors, does not call an external service, and does not load public assets for the settings UI.

Marketingbende Tiny Fixes

A lightweight collection of small WordPress cleanup, performance, admin, and privacy fixes with individual toggles.

VB Disable Emojis vs Marketingbende Tiny Fixes