Last Updated: January 28, 2019
Add the following codes on your functions.php
function disable_emojis() { 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_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' ); remove_filter( 'the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji' ); remove_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji' ); remove_filter( 'wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email' ); add_filter( 'tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_emojis_tinymce' ); add_filter( 'wp_resource_hints', 'disable_emojis_remove_dns_prefetch', 10, 2 ); } add_action( 'init', 'disable_emojis'); function disable_emojis_tinymce( $plugins ) { if ( is_array( $plugins ) ) { return array_diff( $plugins, array( 'wpemoji' ) ); } else { return array(); } } function disable_emojis_remove_dns_prefetch( $urls, $relation_type ) { if ( 'dns-prefetch' == $relation_type ) { $emoji_svg_url = apply_filters( 'emoji_svg_url', 'https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/' ); $urls = array_diff( $urls, array( $emoji_svg_url ) ); } return $urls; }