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If only there was a consistent emoji experience for WordPress.

This was an experimental plugin to develop Emoji support in WordPress. It has been superceded by WordPress 4.2, and no longer works.

Description

This is a WordPress implementation of Twitter's open source twemoji emoji set.

Contribution

Discussion should mainly take place here via Issues or in the #core channel on Slack.

Development process

Development of this plugin is done on Github. Pull requests are welcome.

Don't commit directly to master. Create a new branch per issue you're working on. Then, when ready open a PR for review.

Example branches:

add/cool-thing
fix/dumb-bug
update/other-thing

Changelog

0.4

• Add support for static emoji images in RSS and Email
• Performance improvements in TinyMCE
• Add fallbacks to Twemoji for flags only, which Firefox OS X doesn't support
• Add an emoji_url filter, for changing where emoji images are loaded from
• Fix emoji incorrectly being parsed in tags that don't support children

0.3

• Only load emoji when the browser doesn't have native support
• Replace emoji with static images in RSS and email
• Remove the bonus smilies added in 0.2
• Replace some more of the smilies with emoji

0.2

• Add emoji encoding for non-utf8mb4 character sets
• Replace WordPress' existing smilies with shiny new ones

0.1

• Initial version, based on WordPress.com's emoji implementation