How to remove emoji CSS from WordPress

Learn how to disable emojis scripts from loading on your WordPress site. It will improve your site performance by loading pages faster.

I’ve also published 8 ways to optimise and speed up your WordPress blog.

As you probably know WordPress added support for emojis. By default, WordPress will convert :) into :).

To make it possible they built a wp-emoji-release.min.js script into WordPress core. It’s only 14KB in size but it generates an additional HTTP request to your server.

Disable emoji in WordPress

You can disable emoji on your site by adding this 2 lines of code to the functions.php file.

remove_action('wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7);
remove_action('wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles');

That’s it, it will no longer load wp-emoji-release.min.js file in the site header.

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Renat Galyamov

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