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Disable WordPress 4.2 Emojis for a front-end performance boost

May 19, 2015 by Kimb Jones

Everyone likes Emojis right? Um, not when they are jeopardising my hard-earned A rating on Google Page Speed and YSlow (I use GTMetrix to combine both. See my results here).
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Kill your darlings

Now thanks to Ryan Hellyer you can easily remove this extra bloat to your front end simply by adding the Disable Emojis plugin. Job done.

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