Use an emoji instead of an image as like/dislike icon

  • Rodrigo

    (@rghedin)


    1 month ago

    Self-explanatory. It’s a good way to leverage emoji Unicode standard to avoid one more request for an image.

    Would that be possible?

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  • Plugin Author Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    It already uses fonts, not images, so not sure what you mean here. Not unicode emoji, but still it’s a font which WP uses anyway.

    Thread Starter Rodrigo

    (@rghedin)

    It uses Font Awesome, right? Which loads a whole font in front-end just for icons. I was wondering if, instead, I could just type an emoji to set it as the like/dislike button, like ?? or ??.

    Plugin Author Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    The issue with emoji is that they’re not the same across platforms, so the icons would be different on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, etc.

    I think the minor load of FontAwesome, which is going to be cached anyway by the browser, is a reasonable trade-off here.

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