Description
Origin Story: WordPress emoji comes from s.w.org and they were not optimized well, Compressed Emoji was fixing that problem (detail info).
Credits
- Adem Ilter for inspire
- svgo for emoji compression
- twemoji for emoji
Automated Updates
This repository includes a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically checks for new Twemoji releases monthly and creates a pull request with optimized emoji assets. The workflow fetches the latest release from jdecked/twemoji, optimizes SVG files using SVGO, and optimizes PNG files using pngquant and optipng.
Contributing
Pull requests are welcome on Github
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Screenshots
Comparison
Installation
Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from admin’s Plugins page.
FAQ
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How can I use for CDN
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You can use
compressed_emoji_urlandcompressed_emoji_svg_urlfilters for CDN replacement
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Compressed Emoji” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Compressed Emoji” has been translated into 9 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Compressed Emoji” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.7.2 (April 19, 2026)
- Tested with WordPress 7.0
1.7.1 (November 23, 2025)
- Hotfix: restore svg directory
1.7 (November 23, 2025)
- Twemoji v17.0.2 update
- Tested with WordPress 6.9
1.6
- Various improvements. Props @szepeviktor
- Tested with WordPress 6.5
1.5
- Twemoji 14.0.2 update
- Tested with WordPress 6.3
1.4
- Twemoji 13.1.0 update
- Add composer support
- Tested with WordPress 5.9
1.3
- Twemoji 13.0.1 update.
- tested with WordPress 5.6
1.2
- Twemoji 12.1.4 update. Props @kingkool68
- tested with WordPress 5.3
1.1
- Twemoji 11.2 update. Props @kingkool68
- tested with WordPress 5.x
- trunk is stable tag, It’s not good to keep thousands of files over and over again on the SVN.
1.0
- Initial version