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Plugin info

Total downloads: 7,348
Active installs: 200
Total reviews: 3
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 11/23/2025 (38 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 11/1/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 38 days ago • 3 reviews

61/100

Is Compressed Emoji abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 38 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.6
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: f

Ratings

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Developers

Mustafa Uysal (Owner)15Mustafa Uysal9

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Description

Origin Story: WordPress emoji comes from s.w.org and they were not optimized well, Compressed Emoji was fixing that problem (detail info).

Credits

Automated Updates

This repository includes a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically checks for new Twemoji releases monthly and creates a pull request with optimized emoji assets. The workflow fetches the latest release from jdecked/twemoji, optimizes SVG files using SVGO, and optimizes PNG files using pngquant and optipng.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome on Github

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Installation

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from admin’s Plugins page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I use for CDN

You can use compressed_emoji_url and compressed_emoji_svg_url filters for CDN replacement

Review feed

Josh Pollock
4/2/2017

Much Compression, Very Performance

Does what is says on the box. Compresses your emojis so they load faster. 5 Stars.

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Changelog

1.7.1 (November 23, 2025)

  • Hotfix: restore svg directory

1.7 (November 23, 2025)

  • Twemoji v17.0.2 update
  • Tested with WordPress 6.9

1.6

  • Various improvements. Props @szepeviktor
  • Tested with WordPress 6.5

1.5

  • Twemoji 14.0.2 update
  • Tested with WordPress 6.3

1.4

  • Twemoji 13.1.0 update
  • Add composer support
  • Tested with WordPress 5.9

1.3

  • Twemoji 13.0.1 update.
  • tested with WordPress 5.6

1.2

  • Twemoji 12.1.4 update. Props @kingkool68
  • tested with WordPress 5.3

1.1

  • Twemoji 11.2 update. Props @kingkool68
  • tested with WordPress 5.x
  • trunk is stable tag, It’s not good to keep thousands of files over and over again on the SVN.

1.0

  • Initial version
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