Geek Goddess

As of the release of 4.3, WordPress removed the “Formatting” section from the Writing settings. Included in there was the option to turn off WordPress’s default action to convert text emoticons to image smilies. This plugin does the same thing as unchecking the “convert to smilies” box that used to be available via the settings.

Keep Emoticons as Text

Disables the default WordPress option of converting emoticons to image smilies

Ricardo Gonzalez

Smilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the wordpress default ones.
View page plugin for more info.
Features
<pre><code>* Works (with WP 2.2+)
* Compatible with More Smilies themes
* Options page
* Multilinguage support
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Usage
No user interaction needed. Just activate the plugin, select a smilies theme and profit!
For more info (themes, translations, etc.) visit <a href="http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/smilies-themer" title="Smilies Themer" rel="nofollow ugc">the plugin homepage</a>.
Credits
Matt Read – The plugin is a a crop of his More Smilies (now unsupported), so the major part of the credits goes to him.
License
This plugin is released in a GPL license.
Contact
Suggestion, fixes, rants, congratulations, gifts et al to rick[at]jinlabs.com or by my contact page.

Smilies Themer

Smilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the wordpress default ones.

Keep Emoticons as Text vs Smilies Themer