Sebastian Krysmanski

Replaces WordPress’ smileys (based on images) with font-based emoticons (see screenshots). Font-based emoticons have some advantages:
<ul>
<li>They have the same size as the surrounding text. No more distorting the heights of lines containing smileys/emoticons. They always fit the font size.</li>
<li>They have the same color as the surrounding text.</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin was developed when WordPress was still using <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies#What_Text_Do_I_Type_to_Make_Smileys.3F" rel="nofollow ugc">“pixel images”</a> as emoticons. The current version of WordPress uses scalable vector images (SVG) – so they won’t distort your line heights anymore and look crisp on any size. This makes this plugin less useful than it once was – it now comes down to personal preference whether to use it.
The following emoticons are supported:
<ul>
<li><code>:)</code> <code>:-)</code> <code>(-:</code> <code>(:</code> <code>:smile:</code></li>
<li><code>:(</code> <code>:-(</code> <code>:sad:</code></li>
<li><code>;)</code> <code>;-)</code> <code>:wink:</code></li>
<li><code>:P</code> <code>:-P</code> <code>:razz:</code></li>
<li><code>-.-</code> <code>-_-</code> <code>:sleep:</code></li>
<li><code>>:)</code> <code>>:-)</code> <code>:devil:</code> <code>:twisted:</code></li>
<li><code>:o</code> <code>:-o</code> <code>:eek:</code></li>
<li><code>8O</code> <code>8o</code> <code>8-O</code> <code>8-o</code> <code>:shock:</code> (No special icon for “shock” yet. Using “eek” instead.)</li>
<li><code>:coffee:</code></li>
<li><code>8)</code> <code>8-)</code> <code>B)</code> <code>B-)</code> <code>:cool:</code></li>
<li><code>:/</code> <code>:-/</code></li>
<li><code>:beer:</code></li>
<li><code>:D</code> <code>:-D</code> <code>:grin:</code></li>
<li><code>x(</code> <code>x-(</code> <code>X(</code> <code>X-(</code> <code>:angry:</code></li>
<li><code>:x</code> <code>:-x</code> <code>:mad:</code> (No special icon from “mad” yet. Using “angry” instead.)</li>
<li><code>O:)</code> <code>0:)</code> <code>o:)</code> <code>O:-)</code> <code>0:-)</code> <code>o:-)</code> <code>:saint:</code></li>
<li><code>:'(</code> <code>:'-(</code> <code>:cry:</code></li>
<li><code>:shoot:</code></li>
<li><code>|)</code> <code>:squint:</code></li>
<li><code>^^</code> <code>^_^</code> <code>:lol:</code></li>
</ul>
The following general purpose icons are supported:
<ul>
<li><code>:thumbs:</code> <code>:thumbsup:</code></li>
<li><code>:thumbsdown:</code></li>
<li><code><3</code> <code>:heart:</code></li>
<li><code>:star:</code></li>
<li><code>(/)</code> (ok sign)</li>
<li><code>(x)</code> (cancel)</li>
<li><code>(i)</code></li>
<li><code>(?)</code></li>
<li><code>(+)</code></li>
<li><code>(-)</code></li>
</ul>
Notes:
<ul>
<li>Emoticons/Icons must be surrounded with spaces (or other white space characters); e.g. the emoticon in <code>that:)smile</code> won’t be replaced.</li>
<li>Emoticons/Icons won’t be replaced in HTML tags nor inside of <code><pre></code> or <code><code></code> blocks.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Use In Themes/Plugins</h3>
Font Emoticons are supported in most places where user defined text is displayed. However, there may be places in a 
plugin or theme that are not supported by Font Emoticons.
In these cases, just apply the filter wp_font_emots_replace to the text that should display Font Emoticons.
For example, you would change the following PHP code:
<pre><code><?php echo get_the_author_meta( 'description' ); ?>
</code></pre>
to this code:
<pre><code><?php echo apply_filters('wp_font_emots_replace', get_the_author_meta( 'description' )); ?>
</code></pre>
That’s it.
<h3>Font Licenses</h3>
The emoticons used in this plugin are based on the fonts “Fontelico” and “Font Awesome”.
<h4>Fontelico</h4>
Copyright (C) 2012 by Fontello project
Author: Crowdsourced, for Fontello project 
 License: SIL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) 
 Homepage: http://fontello.com
<h4>Font Awesome</h4>
Copyright (C) 2012 by Dave Gandy
Author: Dave Gandy 
 License: SIL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) 
 Homepage: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

Font Emoticons

Replaces Wordpress' smileys with font-based emoticons.

lmbbox

LMB^Box Smileys Plugin is for the Bloging System WordPress (www.wordpress.org). It is an easy 
way to add better smiley support to wordpress. WordPress has a smileys feature built in but it 
doesn’t let you click a link or button to see all the smileys available to the user. Now LMB^Box 
Smileys does this and more! You can have LMB^Box Smileys add a button to the Comment Quicktags Menu 
bar (LMB^Box Comment Quicktags plugin) or you can manually add a link to the smiles to your 
comment.php theme file. Either way, once you click on the button/link, a new window will popup 
and display the smileys page. You can edit the smileys page to display only certain smileys or 
all (more on that in the Installation part below). Also the smileys have css styles set and you 
can add the css tags to your stylesheet to see the results. One last thing, you can add your 
OWN smileys that you make, have, or found! More info in the Installation part below.

LMB^Box Smileys

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Font Emoticons vs LMB^Box Smileys