This is a Jekyll plugin for Twitter Emoji. It is based heavily* on the work of
in the case of the css file that reference the required assets;
and
in the case of the Jekyll source.
You can find the css file here.
Just place it in your css directory;
add a line like
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "/css/twemoji-awesome.css" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">
and you should be good to go.
Install: Place in the _plugins directory.
Usage:
{% twa twa-heart %}
It will work with any formatting from the third column on the demo page for Twemoji Awesome.
See notes there and use the Emoji Cheatsheet for names.
Working example:
*read: essentially lifted.
Compatibility notes:
Works under the 3.0.0 dev version recently released with "gem 'jekyll'" in the gemfile.
Likely works under 2.4.0 as well. Can't say for any other version. I never got 2.5.3 to work right.