Rating: 1 star

Just tested this on my staging site. Emojis are all still there. Double-checked here to confirm nothing else was required after activation to remove emojis. Sad.

This code works if you add it to the end of your Functions.php file:

// Disable emojis in WordPress
function disable_emoji_feature()
{
  // Prevent Emoji from loading on the front-end
  remove_action('wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7);
  remove_action('wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles');

  // Remove from admin area also
  remove_action('admin_print_scripts', 'print_emoji_detection_script');
  remove_action('admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles');

  // Remove from RSS feeds also
  remove_filter('the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji');
  remove_filter('comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji');

  // Remove from Embeds
  remove_filter('embed_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script');

  // Remove from emails
  remove_filter('wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email');

  // Disable from TinyMCE editor. Currently disabled in block editor by default
  add_filter('tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_emojis_tinymce');

  /** Finally, prevent character conversion too
   ** without this, emojis still work
   ** if it is available on the user's device
   */

  add_filter('option_use_smilies', '__return_false');
}

// Disables emojis in WYSIWYG editor
function disable_emojis_tinymce($plugins)
{
  if (is_array($plugins)) {
    $plugins = array_diff($plugins, array('wpemoji'));
  }
  return $plugins;
}
add_action('init', 'disable_emoji_feature');

}

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Beb.

Rating: 5 stars

Very Nice!