Speed Up Your WordPress Site By Disabling Smileys, Emojis and Emoticons

gistfile1.txt

/**
* Disable the emoji's
*/
function disable_wordpress_emojis() {
    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');
    remove_filter('the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji');
    remove_filter('comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji');
    remove_filter('wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email');

    add_filter('tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_emojis_tinymce');
    add_filter('wp_resource_hints', 'disable_emojis_remove_dns_prefetch', 10, 2);
}
add_action( 'init', 'disable_wordpress_emojis' );

/**
* Filter function used to remove the tinymce emoji plugin.
*
* @param array $plugins
* @return array Difference betwen the two arrays
*/
function disable_emojis_tinymce( $plugins ) {
    if ( is_array( $plugins ) ) {
        return array_diff( $plugins, array( 'wpemoji' ) );
    } else {
        return array();
    }
}

/**
* Remove emoji CDN hostname from DNS prefetching hints.
*
* @param array $urls URLs to print for resource hints.
* @param string $relation_type The relation type the URLs are printed for.
* @return array Difference betwen the two arrays.
*/
function disable_emojis_remove_dns_prefetch( $urls, $relation_type ) {
    if ( 'dns-prefetch' == $relation_type ) {
        /** This filter is documented in wp-includes/formatting.php */
        $emoji_svg_url = apply_filters( 'emoji_svg_url', 'https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/' );
        $urls = array_diff( $urls, array( $emoji_svg_url ) );
    }
    return $urls;
}