Emoticons, also known as “Smileys”, are used to convert emotions in texting, like “:)” or “:D”, into graphics: :) , :-D .
Emoticons are not emojis, even though some graphics are quite similar.
Read this post if you want to disable emojis.
Emoticons are enabled by default in WordPress, and even though they are quite neat and can brighten up the content, some webmasters might not find them suitable for their website/blog and want to disable them.
How to disable emoticons in WordPress
As of WordPress 4.3, the option to disable emoticons was removed from new WordPress installs.
“From new WordPress installs” means that, if you have WordPress installed before 4.3, you will still have the Formatting feature in Settings -> Writing. You just need to uncheck the first box to disable them.
If you have installed WordPress after 4.3, then you’ll have to use a plugin in order to disable the emoticons.
The Keep Emoticons as Text plugin will do just that. All you need to do is install it, nothing more. It hasn’t got any settings.
Now the emoticons will be just plain text, no graphics!
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ok what about disable emoji plugin it is same effect or different??
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emojis-littlebizzy/
can please reply me thanks
Hello! Haven’t tried it, but I assume it does the same thing.
If you do not want to use plugin, add
add_filter( 'option_use_smilies', '__return_false' );to functions.php. It has the same effect.Thanks for the code! It’s always a good thing when you can use fewer plugins!
Thanks for the article! I stumbled across “Really Disable Emojis” plugin some while ago. Very simple to use, just install and activate and it fully switches off all the smiley functionality.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-disable-emojis/Note that emojis are different from emoticons. I have a separate post on how to disable emojis in WordPress.