Insert emojis in your posts, pages, custom post types, and comments
As of April 2026, Native Emoji is a WordPress emoji plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 61K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Super Emoji Plus+.
This is not just a plugin, this is the plugin for use emoji in a native way in your posts and comments. When activated you will see a new button in your wordpress editor or comments box, from there you will be able to include more than 2,000 emojis.
If the Operative System doesn’t support emoji, this plugin insert an image instead of the emoji code.
See a live working demo here
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I really love it, great emoji picker loads on the back end, but doesn’t allow me to pick anything, and messes up the TinyMCE editor display.
On the front end bbpress forms it gives ‘failed to initialise error.
But I can see what it used to do and how cool it would have been, I wish someone can bring it back 🧞♀️
Clicking on the emoji icon opens the window, but emojis never load.
Hasn’t been updated in 2 years. Author most likely abandoned this plugin.
Deserves 0 stars.
Эй, ребят. Посоветуйте мне такой же плагин, но с SVG. Он очень хороший, но есть подводные камни.
絵文字が読み込まれません。
デベロッパーのサイトも警告が出ます。
他のプラグインをおすすめします。
Wanted use this as it looked better than other Emoji plugins, but once you try to load inside the editor, it just keeps on loading and never stops = can’t even use the Emoji plugin. Had to uninstall.
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Release Date – 24 June 2018
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