Best disable emojis plugins for WordPress
The most popular disable emojis plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Speed Up leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Remove Emoji CSS and JS (200+) and Remove WP Emojis (60+). All 5 plugins tagged “disable emojis” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 disable emojis plugins
- 1.
Speed UpThe most installed disable emojis plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 2.Remove Emoji CSS and JS
200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 3.Remove WP Emojis
60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
pymSEO10+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
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Basic Optimization10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 5 plugins tagged “disable emojis”

Speed Up
Up in the last 7 days:98#11,543by Simone Nigro3 months ago
Removes unused scripts (emoji, jquery-migrate, comment-reply) and cleans unnecessary metadata from the head.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Remove Emoji CSS and JS
Down in the last 7 days:37#11,794by Boopathi Rajan4 years ago
This is the best plugin to remove Emoji CSS and JS from the website and improve the performance.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove WP Emojis
#19,941by Rey Sanchez9 months ago
This is the CORRECT WAY to remove or disable the WordPress emojis feature that was added in v4.2.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

pymSEO
Up in the last 7 days:517#31,603by pymsol6 years ago
pymSEO is a collection of functions that solve the most common problems of WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Basic Optimization
Down in the last 7 days:322#32,055by Shah Alom4 months ago
A lightweight WordPress optimization plugin for disabling selected default frontend and header outputs such as emojis, shortlinks, embeds, XML-RPC, se …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day