Replace WordPress Smileys With Font-based Emoticons

by Sarah Gooding December 21^st, 2012 3 Responses

Emoticons are so commonly used in blogging that WordPress has support for smileys included in its core. However, the default WordPress Smileys are made with images. If you’re a regular user of emoticons you may have noticed that those smileys can really disrupt your line spacing when used within your blog, making your paragraphs look a little wonky.

Font Emoticons is a new plugin that replaces the default WordPress smileys with font-based emoticons. With this plugin installed, your emoticons will have the same size as the surrounding text. Here’s a side-by-side comparison:

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4 More Smilies & Emoticons Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

by Tom Ewer March 8^th, 2012 2 Responses

Smiles and emoticons are one of the great dividers amongst bloggers – you either love them, or you hate them. If you hate them, turning them off is a simple case of unchecking the “Convert emoticons” box in Settings > Writing. Unfortunately, you cannot prevent people from offering up a simple text emoticon :-) but at least the graphics are gone.

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Get Cool with both Custom and Default WordPress Smilies and Emoticons

by Joe Foley February 10^th, 2012 Leave a comment

If you’re smilies person, then WordPress offers over twenty default emoticons for you to use in your posts, pages, and comments. But do you know the text code for each? We’ve got a list below. As well, we’ll also cover a few plugins you might be interested in if you’d like to branch out beyond the default smilies and add some customization to your comment form.
Default WordPress Smilies
WordPress comes with a number of default smilies/emoticons built in (more than 20). Below is a list for their text codes. (You can also find it at wordpress.org.)