Compressed Emoji

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 Twemoji asset changes monthly and creates a pull request with optimized emoji assets. The workflow skips parser-only and documentation-only releases, optimizes SVG files using SVGO, and optimizes PNG files using pngquant and optipng. Contributing Pull requests are welcome on Github If you like Compressed Emoji, then consider checking out my other projects:

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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.

1.7.3 (August 17, 2026)

• Updated Twemoji release tracking to v17.0.3
• Tested with WordPress 7.1

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