GitHub-flavored Emoji plugin for Jekyll

Add the following to your site's Gemfile

gem 'jemoji'

And add the following to your site's _config.yml

plugins:
  - jemoji

💡 If you are using a Jekyll version less than 3.5.0, use the gems key instead of plugins.

In any page or post, use emoji as you would normally, e.g.

I give this plugin two :+1:!

For GitHub Pages sites built on GitHub.com, emoji images are served from the GitHub.com CDN, with a base URL of https://github.githubassets.com, which results in emoji image URLs like https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f604.png.

On GitHub Enterprise installs, page builds receive the ASSET_HOST_URL environment variable, which contain a value like https://assets.ghe.my-company.com. This results in emoji images for GitHub Pages sites built on a GitHub Enterprise install being served at URLs like https://assets.ghe.my-company.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f604.png.

If you'd like to serve emoji images locally, or use a custom emoji source, you can specify so in your _config.yml file:

emoji:
  src: "/assets/images/emoji"

See the Gemoji documentation for generating image files.