WordPress uses Twemoji, Twitter’s version of emoji.
You can find all Twemoji here: https://emojipedia.org/twitter/
The easiest way is to search and simply copy the emoji from Emojipedia and paste it wherever you want to use it in WordPress (eg post editor, title, etc). WordPress will take care of the rest.
Alternatively, you could use your computer keyboard to directly type or insert your operating system’s version of emoji characters ( Windows key + dot on MS Windows computers). WordPress will automatically convert whatever you type to the equivalent Twemoji if available, or display it as-is.
If you prefer to use the native emoji characters on computers (which varies from computer to computer) and not WordPress/Twitter’s Twemoji equivalents, you’ll need to disable the emoji feature in WordPress. There are lots of plugins available to do this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/disable+emoji/
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Olivier
(@olivierwpt)
Thank you Georges, but it’s for a readme.txt for a plugin 🙂
Should work the same, as WordPress eats its own dog food.
Emoji is just Unicode character, no different from the letters we’re typing here.
So you should be able to copy and paste the emoji into your readme.txt file. WordPress.org will either convert it to the equivalent Twemoji if it exists, or display it as-is.
If you inspect the code for emoji in your response above, or the emoji in this (randomly selected) plugin description page, you’ll see, in both instances, WordPress served a Twemoji character as an SVG image.
So you don’t need to do anything special even in your readme.txt file: just type or copy/paste the emoji character.
