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Home » Tips & Tricks » CMS » Emoji characters in WordPress

Emoji characters in WordPress

April 29, 2015 Lins Heydon

WordPress (4.2) supports Han characters from the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages – making it easier for the international community to use WordPress in their native language.

A spin off from this update to the core files sees WordPress also offering support for a range of other character sets. This includes hieroglyphics, musical and mathematical notation and also Emojis.

Emoji is a Japanese term meaning ‘picture letter’. Every Emoji is made up of a just a single character and there are a wide range of them available to use.

What Emojis are not

Emojis are not smileys (emoticons), which are created from typing in two or three punctuation marks. For example colon : followed by a closing bracket ). Put these together and WordPress (by default; turn off in Settings > Writing, Formatting) will automatically convert to 🙂

How do I use Emojis?

You can easily add Emojis to your posts, pages and comments, in fact in most cases where ever you can write text.

Using a mobile device is pretty intuitive, Emojis can be found in the on-screen keyboard.  Look out for the smiley face icon (or globe for early iOS versions).

Emoji

On a desktop try the cheat sheet – 😊 🎁 👌. Copy the icons on the left and paste into WordPress.

Mac users can type Command+Control+Space while in a text editor. This will open a character input panel from which you can then click the Emoji you want to insert.

Windows 8+ users can use the touch keyboard, which includes emoji support.  Open by clicking on the keyboard symbol on the taskbar.  If this isn’t available, right-click on the taskbar and select Toolbars > Touch Keyboard.  Click the smiley face.

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