Best emojis plugins for WordPress
The most popular emojis plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly) leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of Emoji Settings (2K+) and Really Disable Emojis (700+). All 18 plugins tagged “emojis” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 emojis plugins
- 1.
Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly)The most installed emojis plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 108 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 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.
Really Disable Emojis700+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 8 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.
TGG700+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 5 days ago.
- 5.
Disable WP Emoji Icons100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 6.
TrimPress100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
Remove WP Emojis60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
Disable WP Emojis40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 9.
Emojicom10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 10.
Emoji Keyboard in Comment Form10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 18 plugins tagged “emojis”
Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly)
#658by Ryan Hellyer5 months ago
Disable the WordPress emoji functionality to improve performance and privacy.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 5.0(108)
- Downloads
- 661/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
Really Disable Emojis
Up in the last 7 days:24#7,667by Christian Leuenberg7 days ago
Disables the automatic emojis (smilies) replacement function. Really! :-)
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TGG
Up in the last 7 days:9#7,744by preetindersodhi5 days ago
This plugin is a collection of various WP tweaks.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Disable WP Emoji Icons
Down in the last 7 days:30#14,683by gr8nilay2 years ago
This plugin disable WordPress emoji icons ( from Post, Page, Comments and Email content ) and removes the extra code and style which is added by defau …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
TrimPress
Down in the last 7 days:97#16,189by David Matthew1 year ago
TrimPress optimizes and trims some of the cruft from WordPress for a lighter, more secure theme!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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
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
Emojicom
#44,663by emojicom6 years ago
Easily embed your emojicom widget in your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emoji Keyboard in Comment Form
Down in the last 7 days:3,200#45,896by emojipudding8 years ago
Add a Keyboard for Emojis to your comment form. By clicking on an emoji, it will append to your comment input field.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CS Disable Emojis
Up in the last 7 days:19,352#52,184by Chetan Satasiya8 years ago
This plugin disables the WordPress emoji functionality.
- 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
Payloadless
Down in the last 7 days:13,612#65,648by George Vasiliades2 months ago
Fifteen switches that turn off what WordPress loads by default and most sites never use. No caching, no minification.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PF Secure Toolkit
#66,528by Poet Farmer1 year ago
PF Secure Toolkit is a lightweight, modular plugin to harden WordPress by disabling unnecessary features.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VM2X-GIPHY-TM
Down in the last 7 days:13,550#67,566by Mao Ye4 years ago
VM2X Insert GIPHY Images
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VB Disable Emojis
Down in the last 7 days:9,854#67,631by verbaste1 month ago
Completely disables WordPress emoji scripts and styles on frontend and backend. No settings, no UI, zero overhead.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Marketingbende Tiny Fixes
Down in the last 7 days:2,821#73,100by marketingbende6 months ago
A lightweight collection of small WordPress cleanup, performance, admin, and privacy fixes with individual toggles.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Scalpel Source Code Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:13,366#74,222by Laurent1 year ago
Scalpel Source Code Cleaner is a WordPress plugin designed to deactivate most default libraries from your WordPress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day