Emoji Settings
Emoji Settings adds an option to your Writing Settings page to toggle emoji conversion to images.
5(12 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Emoji Settings is a WordPress emoji plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 29K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: Native Emoji.
5/512 reviews
2.0K+active installs
29K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Quickly enable or disable emojis conversion with an option.
When you disable the option, Emoji Settings stops the conversion of ASCII smilies like :) and :D to images on any WordPress installation. This plugin also prevents changing real emojis to Twemoji (Twitter) images. It achieves this by removing several default WordPress scripts.
You can find the option at “Settings > Writing” (/wp-admin/options-writing.php).
This plugin does not prevent real emojis (inserted via an emoji keyboard) from being stored and outputted on your website.
Emoji conversion enabled by default
I wrote this plugin with a WordPress.com-like environment in mind, giving users an option without overriding standard WordPress behavior.
You can change this behavior via filter cw_emoji_overrides. Refer to…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Convenient and useful
by RealMag777·1 year ago
Works fine, thank you!
Great!
by Anonymous User 18721493·2 years ago
Simple, straightforward, and does it job well!
solved all my issues
by cekay·3 years ago
I tried another plugin that has more than 70k installation, but it didn’t work for some reason it was converting the emoji to svg, but this plugin solved my problem smoothly, thank you
Works
by Abalone·4 years ago
Finally a plugin that really works with 5.7.2 😀 Thank you!
works perfect!
by mattce·7 years ago
i had problems, that some smileys were shown as broken characters, after i’ve deactivated emoticons in general via functions.php. this plugin fixes the issue, all smileys are now shown as they should, as plain text. perfect 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 9Yesterday: 14This week: 100Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
89.0%
v1.1
8.6%
v1.2
2.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.0
- Rewritten for improved performance.
- Now requires PHP 7.2 or later.
- Now requires WP 5.5 or later because it adds tests against PHP support.
- All function and class names have changed due to added namespacing, hence the major version bump.
- Added filter
cw_emoji_overrides, accepts array[ 'default' => string 1|0, 'force_support' => ?bool ].
…and 2 more changes
Contributors
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