Self hosted Twemoji images
As of April 2026, Local Twemoji is a WordPress emoji plugin with 20 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 693 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Top alternative: Native Emoji.
Local Twemoji is a WordPress plugin to serve fallback emoji images from your own site URL rather than the WordPress.org CDN.
The purpose of this plugin is to aid sites served over a CDN as browsers now cache requests on a per site basis rather than globally.
The effect of this is that the WordPress.org CDN’s splat image is treated as two different images if downloaded from site-one.example and site-two.example. You can read more about this in the Chrome post on cache partitioning.
For sites served over a CDN, downloading the image from your own URL will be quicker as it reduces the number of servers the visitor’s browser needs to connect to.
A new version of Twemoji is released each time the emoji are added to the Unicode specification, each major ver…
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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