Best emoji plugins for WordPress
The most popular emoji plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Native Emoji leads with 5K+ active installs, ahead of Emoji Settings (2K+) and Emoji Toolbar (2K+). All 53 plugins tagged “emoji” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 emoji plugins
- 1.
Native EmojiThe most installed emoji plugin, with 5K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 19 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 2.
Emoji Settings2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 12 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Emoji Toolbar2K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Super Emoji Plus+1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 5.
wp-Monalisa600+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 25 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.
ShareThis Reaction Buttons600+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 5 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 7.
TinyMCE Smiley Button500+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 8.
Emoji Autocomplete Gutenberg500+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 5 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.0.
- 9.
Remoji300+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 10.
Compressed Emoji200+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
All 53 plugins tagged “emoji”
Native Emoji
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,129by Danny BS8 years ago
Insert emojis in your posts, pages, custom post types, and comments
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 3.7(19)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Emoji Settings
Down in the last 7 days:13#4,509by Sybre Waaijer1 year ago
Emoji Settings adds an option to your Writing Settings page to toggle emoji conversion to images.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Emoji Toolbar
Up in the last 7 days:13#4,921by them.es9 months ago
A simple Emoji picker that integrates in the rich-text block toolbar.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Super Emoji Plus+
Down in the last 7 days:7#5,165by Eric Andrew Lewis9 years ago
This plugin adds an Insert Emoji button into the post content editor. It will also enable autocomplete of emoji by typing a colon and then an emoji n …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
wp-Monalisa
Down in the last 7 days:68#8,331by tuxlog11 months ago
wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.8(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ShareThis Reaction Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:18#8,489by ShareThis1 month ago
Integrate ShareThis Reaction Buttons seamlessly into your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TinyMCE Smiley Button
Down in the last 7 days:30#8,544by Cople6 years ago
Add Smiley Button to TinyMCE.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Emoji Autocomplete Gutenberg
Down in the last 7 days:64#8,636by eedee6 years ago
Just type : to get a popup of all available emojis (1719 different emojis!) and easily insert them in multiple Blocks.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remoji
Down in the last 7 days:12#10,602by WPDO4 months ago
Reactive emoji. Allow visitors to add emoji reactions to your posts and comments. Disable comment for pages, posts.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Compressed Emoji
Down in the last 7 days:62#12,584by Mustafa Uysal2 months ago
Same emoji, but compressed. It helps to serve emoji via your server.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Emoji Emoticons
Down in the last 7 days:33#14,201by Guilherme Baptista13 years ago
Support for Emoji Emoticons: http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comment Emojis for WP
Down in the last 7 days:99#15,512by Jayesh Chopda7 months ago
Add a lightweight emoji picker to the default WordPress comment textarea so visitors can insert emojis quickly.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Local Twemoji
Up in the last 7 days:1,108#19,240by Peter Wilson1 month ago
Self hosted Twemoji images
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Emoji in comments
Down in the last 7 days:95#20,403by hanhdo2057 years ago
Display emojis in WordPress comments
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Disable WP Emojis
Down in the last 7 days:221#21,539by Brandon Himpfen7 years ago
Removes emojis from the WordPress front-end, admin pages, feeds and e-mails.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Local Emoji
Up in the last 7 days:97#22,764by Daisuke Takahashi10 years ago
Use emoji without external items
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disables unnecessary functionality
Down in the last 7 days:37#23,708by DreamerKlim9 years ago
Just disables unnecessary functionality of WordPress, thus improving and speeding up your site ^_^
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
EmojiCal comment with emoji
Down in the last 7 days:143#25,474by EmojiCal.Net2 years ago
This plugin provides a Lighweight Emoji box to the Comments form of your site, and your users will be able to add these emojis inside their comments w …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Some Plus Content Reactions
Down in the last 7 days:270#26,635by someplus6 months ago
Add emoji reactions to your posts and pages. Let your visitors express their feelings about your content.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Disable Emoji
Up in the last 7 days:246#26,700by 6102169 years ago
WP Disable Emoji
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Insert Text Symbols
Down in the last 7 days:183#27,120by codingdude4 years ago
This plugin will add a button to the Gutenberg editor for inserting text symbols or emojis into your WordPress posts or pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
YaBlog
Down in the last 7 days:48#27,717by Anton Paramonov11 years ago
Allows administrators to globally disable XML-RPC, new emoji functionality in WordPress 4.2, wp generator, wlwmanifest, RSD EditURI and rss/feeds on t …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
LightMoving UTF8MB4 Converter
Up in the last 7 days:1,823#28,618by Angelsrock1 month ago
Safely scan and convert WordPress database tables to utf8mb4 for 4-byte character support, including emojis and multilingual Unicode characters.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Emoji
#30,592by CantonBolo14 years ago
在你的博客里显示 Emoji 表情。Display Apple Emoji fonts(SoftBank) on your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emojin
Down in the last 7 days:114#33,261by tmatsuur12 years ago
If emoji is included in the post content, this plug-in escaped before saving.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emojis for Posts and Pages
#33,341by Gunjan Jaswal11 days ago
Add colorful emoji reactions to your WordPress posts and pages, similar to Facebook reactions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Sohaus Clean Emoji Slugs
Down in the last 7 days:1,786#34,266by Sohaus3 months ago
Removes emoji and special symbols from WordPress slugs while keeping them in post titles.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Awesome Emoji Reactions
Down in the last 7 days:430#34,639by peakplugins1 year ago
Add emoji reactions to your WordPress posts to increase user engagement and get instant feedback from your audience.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emojized
Up in the last 7 days:8,675#37,186by theode9 years ago
Emojized allows visitors to a WordPress site to rate and react to content using Emojis. Because text without them is 🅱🅾®ℹ️🆖
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Reactions
#39,830by Gary Pendergast9 days ago
Let visitors react to your posts with emoji, Facebook/GitHub-style. Reactions are stored as ordinary WordPress comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Big Emoji Comments
Up in the last 7 days:1,742#43,278by George Stephanis4 months ago
If someone leaves a comment comprised entirely of emoji, make it bigger.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comments Reactions
Down in the last 7 days:649#43,582by Henrique Silverio8 years ago
Improve your comment system with funny emoji reactions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emoji Reactions
Up in the last 7 days:2,416#43,792by stuartquin11 years ago
Add emoji reactions to posts, pages and comments. Inspired by Slack
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Block Editor Emoji
Down in the last 7 days:6,474#44,708by Mohan Raj2 years ago
Block Editor Emoji enables you to add emojis to the post by hitting :(colon)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Let it Rain
Down in the last 7 days:8,203#46,360by monarchofsouls6 years ago
This Plugin lets you choose an EMOJI or HTML-Encoded Entity that will rain down on your Website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Cleanup
#47,626by multinetgmbh1 year ago
Provides options to clean up your WordPress backend and the generated HTML source of your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WebNow Emoji Reactions
Down in the last 7 days:145#53,570by Webnow6 months ago
Short Description: WebNow Emoji Reactions adds a one-click emoji reaction bar to posts, allowing visitors to express reactions using emojis.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Emoji Styles & Scripts
Up in the last 7 days:2,774#54,806by inthiscode6 years ago
Improve your website's performance and speed by removing emoji scripts and styles if you don't need them.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Newmoji
Up in the last 7 days:9,925#55,913by benjaminguv0015 years ago
Your post generates emotions, count the reactions with this simple plugin | Tus post genera emociones, contabiliza las reacciones con este sencillo pl …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Manly No Emojis
Down in the last 7 days:962#56,103by DimitriAus2 months ago
Disables the emoji functionality in WordPress to improve performance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mir Comment Reactions
Up in the last 7 days:15,266#56,131by mirmehranarjmand3 months ago
Add fast AJAX emoji reactions to WordPress comments, with custom reactions, reports, shortcode, PHP function, and an Elementor widget.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emoji Guard
Up in the last 7 days:10,079#62,138by Palasthotel GmbH1 month ago
Warns administrators when a database migration has broken the site's emojis.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Temly Disable Emoji
Down in the last 7 days:58#62,375by Temly1 year ago
Completely removes WordPress emoji scripts, styles, and DNS prefetch requests to improve site performance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PoKeMoJiS
Up in the last 7 days:5,520#62,824by arena6 years ago
Remove all Emojis detection scripts and more ...
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Like computy
Up in the last 7 days:4,696#63,039by calliko10 months ago
Display voting buttons using emotions on any page, post or product. Buttons are rendered using the [buttons_like_computy] shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sleekode Performance Core
#64,364by ms13th2 months ago
Lightweight performance and maintenance toolkit for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Antarnisti Smiley for Kaskus
Down in the last 7 days:11,504#66,585by Tom Antarnisti5 months ago
Adds an Antarnisti smiley shortcode set for Kaskus-style emoticons to WordPress posts, comments, the Classic Editor, and the comment form.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SmileyHub Emoji Kit
#68,697by Mumtahina Faguni2 months ago
Emoji picker for Gutenberg editor that integrates colon-triggered autocomplete like Slack, Discord & custom emoji uploads for all rich-text blocks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CookingRush emoji inside comment
#69,071by Mohsen CookingRush2 years ago
This plugin will provide a really Lighweight Emoji box to the Comment form below your posts, and your visitors will be able to add those emojis inside …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Keitai Emoji
Down in the last 7 days:6,216#70,669by Kobayashi Sharyo Co., Ltd.2 months ago
148 hand-made 12x12 pixel-art emoji as inline SVG shortcodes, in the style of Japanese feature phones around the year 2000.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day