Change Emoji Appearance

The WP core reference lists the hooks and functions related to emoji. Here are the hooks you use to point to alternate versions of emoji.

Convert emoji to images

To have your emoji characters displayed correctly, your html document MUST HAVE this meta in the header: <meta charset=”UTF-8″> To insert emoji character into your content, you can ether copy/paste it, or use its numerical code. This will be a code for a hamburger: &#x1F354; resulting this: 🍔. Update It looks like your wp_posts table’s … Read more

How do I make WordPress to display apple emoji?

Copying my answer to a similar question from the .org forums: You can’t force WordPress to use iOS emoji for anyone but iOS (or Mac) users. Emoji are just characters, like any other letter, and how they’re displayed is determined by the operating system. Each operating system has its own graphics for the emoji, and … Read more

How to disable emoji on specific page?

You’ll need to adjust your hook so it runs on wp, not init so that you can query what page you’re currently on. The code below gives you some examples of determining if you’re on the page(s) in questions. function disable_emoji_feature() { if ( is_page( 123 ) || is_page(‘the-page-slug’ ) || is_page( array( 1, 2, … Read more

Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display

I’m answering this old question because I didn’t find anything better. WordPress 5.9 wp-admin\options.php line 165 checks database version (when WP was originally installed) against a number to show or not those options. if ( get_site_option( ‘initial_db_version’ ) < 32453 ) { $allowed_options[‘writing’][] = ‘use_smilies’; $allowed_options[‘writing’][] = ‘use_balanceTags’; } Not actually a solution, but maybe … Read more

Prevent WordPress from convert âś” (& other text symbols/emoji) to SVG [duplicate]

The code from this page solved the problem for me. /** * Disable the emoji’s */ function disable_emojis() { remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’, 7 ); remove_action( ‘admin_print_scripts’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’ ); remove_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’ ); remove_action( ‘admin_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’ ); remove_filter( ‘the_content_feed’, ‘wp_staticize_emoji’ ); remove_filter( ‘comment_text_rss’, ‘wp_staticize_emoji’ ); remove_filter( ‘wp_mail’, ‘wp_staticize_emoji_for_email’ ); add_filter( ‘tiny_mce_plugins’, ‘disable_emojis_tinymce’ ); add_filter( ‘wp_resource_hints’, ‘disable_emojis_remove_dns_prefetch’, … Read more

Check if emojis is disabled

To completely remove emojis this is the code: remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’, 7 ); remove_action( ‘admin_print_scripts’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’ ); remove_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’ ); remove_action( ‘admin_print_styles’, ‘print_emoji_styles’ ); So to check if any of those are active you could use has_action() like this: $emoji_script front = has_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘print_emoji_detection_script’ ); if( $emoji_script_front ) { // The emoji script … Read more

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