Remove WordPress Emoji Scripts

WordPress 4.2 finally added emoji support!

Sense the sarcasm?

Since we’ll never be using emojis, here’s how to remove all of the supporting code. Add this block to your theme’s functions.php file:

function remove_emoji() {
  remove_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' );
  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_filter( 'wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email' );
  remove_filter( 'the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji' );
  remove_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'remove_emoji' );

Now you can save all those emojis for texting.