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Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly)
Version: 1.7.7
Description
This plugin disables the new WordPress emoji functionality. GDPR friendly.
Note: Emoticons will still work and emojis will still work in browsers which have built in support for them. This plugin simply removes the extra code bloat used to add support for emojis in older browsers.
GDPR compliancy
This plugin does not do anything to make your site less GDPR compliant. It disables the DNS prefetching of emojis within WordPress, which should ensure improved privacy. To determine if your site is GDPR compliant, please seek legal advice. I have done my best to ensure the plugin is 100% GDPR compliant, but I am not a lawyer so can not guarantee anything 😉
Installation
After you’ve downloaded and extracted the files:
- Upload the complete ‘disable-emojis’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory OR install via the plugin installer
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- And yer done!
Visit the Disable Emojis plugin for more information.
Reviews
Doesn't activate
By kianmovahhed on November 13, 2024
Does not activate. Every time I click "activate", the page just refreshes with no action.
Does what I need it to
By Chris Lovie-Tyler (chrislt) on April 19, 2024
Thanks for making this plugin, Ryan!
Thorough and concise
By Walf (wallfur) on May 29, 2023
No settings, just works.
Performance increase
By Huckleberry (helijobs) on October 8, 2022
I love it!
By mahyulan on October 3, 2021
Works like a charm
By Robert (metbril) on March 1, 2021
Works as expected!
By emilioborraz on December 30, 2020
does exactly what it is supposed to do without bloat
By ctra on October 21, 2020
Works well
By codebot on November 27, 2019
Clean
By Roy Orbitson (lev0) on November 19, 2019
Changelog
1.7.7
- Confirmed support for newer WordPress versions.
1.7.6
- Confirmed support for newer WordPress versions.
1.7.5
- Added Composer support.
1.7.4
- Fixing typos.
1.7.3
- Unneeded version bump to shut the WordPress.org notice up.
1.7.2
- Subtle improvement to code cleanliness.
- Improved documentation regarding GDPR issues.
1.7.1
- Added GDPR friendly label on advice from Ipstenu.
1.7
- Removed DNS prefetch URL again.
- This time using simple string check rather than relying on internal WordPress filters.
1.6
- Removed DNS prefetch URL. Props to Aaron Queen for assisting with this.
1.5.3
- Catering to new DNS prefetch URL in version 4.7 of core
1.5.2
- Improved documentation.
- Removed redundant dns prefetching. Thanks to Milan Dinic for the pull request.
1.5.1
- Updating documentation.
1.5
- Catering for invalid $plugin array.
1.4
- Updating to use Otto’s code.
1.3
Removing extraneous styles.
1.2
Bug fix.
1.1
Updating to work with latest beta.
1.0
Initial release.