Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly)

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:

1. Upload the complete ‘disable-emojis’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory OR install via the plugin installer
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. And yer done!

Visit the Disable Emojis plugin for more information.

Reviews

Does what I need it to

Chris Lovie-Tyler April 19, 2024

Thanks for making this plugin, Ryan!

Thorough and concise

Walf May 29, 2023

No settings, just works.

Performance increase

Huckleberry October 8, 2022

Tested with PageSpeed Insights.

I love it!

mahyulan October 3, 2021

Simple, lightweight and just doing the job! Thanks.

Works like a charm

Robert March 1, 2021

No more loading from external sites. I’d like to self-host everything! Tested with 5.6.2

Works as expected!

emilioborraz December 30, 2020

It works perfectly!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

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 www.ads-software.com 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.