{"id":70407,"date":"2023-06-07T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/?p=70407"},"modified":"2023-06-05T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T02:28:58","slug":"disable-emojis-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/disable-emojis-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simplest Way to Disable Emojis in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you looking for a way to disable emojis in WordPress? \u270b Disabling the WordPress emoji file can eliminate an HTTP request on your site, without affecting the experience for most of your visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, it’s really easy to disable emojis using a free plugin. However, for more technical users, you might prefer to disable emojis using code. This requires you to edit your child theme’s functions.php <\/em>file (or apply the code to a code snippets plugin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this post, we’ll take a closer look at why you might want to disable emojis in WordPress<\/a>. Then, we’ll walk you through two easy methods<\/a>. Let’s jump right in! \ud83e\udd98<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Why you might want to disable emojis in WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The main reason to disable WordPress emojis is to improve performance on your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By default, WordPress already supports most emojis in modern browsers without the need for any extra files. However, to ensure support for older browsers, WordPress added extra emoji support in WordPress 4.2. In recent versions, this emoji support adds a single wp-emoji-release.min.js<\/code> file to every page on your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loading this file adds an extra HTTP request to your site. But at the same time, it’s not needed to make emojis work for most of your users. As such, disabling this file can help you reduce your HTTP requests and achieve a very small<\/em> performance boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s important to be clear that when we talk about “disabling emojis in WordPress,” we’re actually focused on disabling the extra emoji file bloat that WordPress loads. Even if you disable this file, most users will still be able to add and view emojis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49 For example, they could use their device’s emoji keyboard or copy and paste from a site like Emojipedia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The simplest way to disable emojis in WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now that you know why you might want to disable emojis, let’s take a look at the simplest way to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Disable emojis using a plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Disable emojis using a plugin<\/h3>\n\n\n
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