Stop adding emoji to head

No, it’s not going to be optional. It’s there, it’s staying. If you want to use a plugin to put back the original smilies, you have that choice:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/classic-smilies/

I could care less about original smilies; I do care about unnecessary crud in the head. And of course I can strip it out, and have, and will add the relevant functions to my starter template. Just seems like something that should have been optional to add, not vice versa.

How about using one of these: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/add_theme_support
Already, there are much more important things that need to be activated that way.

you are not destroying only the smileys… you’re also destroying html-arrows for example: ? (9654)

its crap for a business-site…

@thisisole, I think you should raise this with your theme’s vendors/ authors