A simple way to remove Emoji junk from WordPress.

Turns out, this is pretty easy to achieve.

How do we do it?

We just need to remove those actions from WordPress. We can do that by simply adding the following code to our functions.php file.

<?php
/**
 * Remove Emoji Junk
 */
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' );

Conclusion.

So there you have it, a super simple way to remove Emoji junk from your WordPress website and squeeze out every little bit of performance.