diff --git a/catalog/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/wordpress.py b/catalog/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/wordpress.py
index ad8dd2c7bfc..826b6474ee0 100644
--- a/catalog/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/wordpress.py
+++ b/catalog/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/wordpress.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 """
 
 import logging
-
+import re
 import lxml.html as html
 
 from common import constants
@@ -172,9 +172,12 @@ def _get_title(image):
         if title := image.get("content", {}).get("rendered"):
             try:
                 title = html.fromstring(title).text_content()
-            except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
-                logger.warning(f"Can't save the image's title ('{title}') due to {e}")
-                return None
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                # lxml's HTML parser can raise UnicodeDecodeError on titles
+                # containing certain emoji. Fall back to a regex-based tag
+                # strip, which operates on the original str and never
+                # re-encodes it, so emoji are preserved correctly.
+                title = re.sub(r"<[^<]+?>", "", title).strip()
         return title
 
     @staticmethod
diff --git a/catalog/tests/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/test_wordpress.py b/catalog/tests/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/test_wordpress.py
index 1ceebc4ae62..9a2d2e04769 100644
--- a/catalog/tests/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/test_wordpress.py
+++ b/catalog/tests/dags/providers/provider_api_scripts/test_wordpress.py
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ def test_get_title(ingester):
     expected_result = "Coffee Bean with bags"
     assert actual_result == expected_result
 
+def test_get_title_handles_emoji(ingester):
+    image_data = {"content": {"rendered": "<p>Tomato Basil \U0001F33F Soup</p>\n"}}
+    actual_result = ingester._get_title(image_data)
+    expected_result = "Tomato Basil \U0001F33F Soup"
+    assert actual_result == expected_result
 
 def test_get_file_info(ingester):
     image_details = (