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Strip Out WordPress’s Built-In Emoji Scripts

Removes the extra CSS/JS WordPress loads on every page to support emoji rendering in older browsers — most modern browsers don't need it.

php

/**
 * Disable Emoji mess
 */
function disable_wp_emojicons() {
    remove_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' );
    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_filter( 'wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email' );
    remove_filter( 'the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji' );
    remove_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji' );
    add_filter( 'tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_emojicons_tinymce' );
    add_filter( 'emoji_svg_url', '__return_false' );
}

add_action( 'init', 'disable_wp_emojicons' );

function disable_emojicons_tinymce( $plugins ) {
    return is_array( $plugins ) ? array_diff( $plugins, array( 'wpemoji' ) ) : array();
}

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