Viptor Says: Emoji Picker Is Back With an Emoji Toolbar Plugin
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Hello, fellas, I hope everything’s going well for you. Today is another day I’m reporting a piece of spicy news from the world that has won the hearts of WordPress developers, lovers, and users – the magnific world of WordPress.
Not so long ago, them.es released an Emoji Toolbar – a picker that integrates with the WordPress rich-text toolbar. With its help, users would be able to insert emojis directly from the editor interface. If this sounds interesting to you, then we can dive a little deeper.
A short history of the emoji culture
This Emoji toolbar has caught not my interest only, but my WordPress development agency as well. Hence I assume you must find it quite astonishing too. But before we move on to discussing it, I thought – why not talk about the whole emoji culture first? When did it all start, and why?
Before the development of emojis, people used emoticons such as ;–) or 8-D to describe certain feelings or gestures. We all have seen them, and probably, many of us still use them today. The person who developed emojis as we know them now is the Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita in the late 1990s. He worked at a mobile communications company that was developing a new internet platform.
When writing, you have a limited number of characters. This made Kurita come up with a cool idea – to replace words with pictures. This way users would be able to express themselves more in-depth while at the same time using less data. A decade later, Unicode adapted emojis and added many, many more. Now, emojis are an established part of communication in the digital era. In fact, it’s hard to imagine texting online without using emojis.
How does the Emoji Toolbar work?
Our WordPress development agency loves anything that adds value to WordPress. The Emoji Toolbar is no exception. Moreover, using it is easy peasy lemon squeezy. When you’re in the rich-text field, the Emoji Toolbar appears in the block toolbar.
After one click, the plugin creates a pop-up of the emoji picker. Users can insert the emoji of their choice by selecting it. Moreover, the plugin has the Emoji Mart library included. The library has now gotten to be nearly a standard for emoji pickers.
Overall, the plugin is well-written, and it has a picker that’s easy to use for embeddings emojis. Therefore, I think it can do a great job for you.
What does the future hold for emojis?
As I already pointed out, using emojis in the digital era is an essential part of communicating with others. Our WordPress development agency does not have the power to predict the future, yet we believe that with the rapid development of technologies, emojis will only continue to expand their horizons. They add emotions to our texts we are not able to add otherwise.
Some say emojis will become the language of the future. Others denied this and said they can’t express humans’ feelings. Whatever the case, we’ll have to wait to see the real answer. Nonetheless, we can still take advantage of the opportunities emojis offer in our communication and use them. Or at least, this is what our WordPress development company plans to do.
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