Geek Goddess

<p>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.</p>


Keep Emoticons as Text

Disables the default WordPress option of converting emoticons to image smilies

Cople

TinyMCE Smiley Button

A nice to have would be to turn the text in the wysiwyg to a smiley. EG. :) <- Would turn into the smiley image after a space is added. A client of ours wants this functionality so i shall send relevant code to do so once i've figured it out. :)



Keep Emoticons as Text vs TinyMCE Smiley Button