wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.
Alternatives to TinyMCE Emoticons
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Adds an Antarnisti smiley shortcode set for Kaskus-style emoticons to WordPress posts, comments, the Classic Editor, and the comment form.
Disable Gutenberg block editor & restore classic TinyMCE legacy editor per post type (Posts, Pages) with zero bloat and 100% speed.
You can easily add the TinyMCE (WYSIWYG) editor to WooCommerce product categories and tags "description" for better formatting options.
Users can easily add TinyMCE Editor in Comment Form in just one click.
Same emoji, but compressed. It helps to serve emoji via your server.
Emoji picker for Gutenberg editor that integrates colon-triggered autocomplete like Slack, Discord & custom emoji uploads for all rich-text blocks.
The visual editor widget for WordPress.
Extend TinyMCE & Gutenberg with custom font weights (100–900 + keywords) and text transform options. Works standalone.
Disables the automatic emojis (smilies) replacement function. Really! :-)