Manly No Emojis

Manly No Emojis

by DimitriAus

Description

This lightweight plugin removes WordPress emoji functionality to reduce HTTP requests and improve page load times.

What it removes:

Emoji detection script from page head
Emoji styles from frontend and admin
TinyMCE wpemoji plugin
Emoji conversion in RSS feeds
Emoji handling in emails
DNS prefetch for emoji CDN

Installation

Upload the manly-no-emojis folder to /wp-content/plugins/
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Done! No configuration needed.

Faq

Will this break my site?

No. This plugin only removes emoji-related scripts and styles. Regular text and images are unaffected.

Can I still use emojis?

Yes, but they will display as plain text characters or native OS emojis instead of WordPress’s Twitter-style images.

Reviews

Changelog

1.0.3

Updated: Requires PHP bumped to 7.4 (WordPress 7.0 minimum); Tested up to 7.0.

1.0.2

Fixed: Coding standards compliance (WordPress PHPCS).
Fixed: Minimum PHP requirement corrected to 7.2.

1.0

Initial release.