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

Sharon

Works with Custom Smilies 2.3!
I use Custom Smilies 2.3 plugin. However, I prefer the Yahoo! Messenger emoticons. So, I did some digging, found them all, then tweaked my plugin to use those emoticons. Yahoo! Emoticons for Custom Smilies 2.3 is a tweak for the plugin Custom Smilies 2.3 found at http://goto8848.net/ . This updates files within that plugin so that you can use Yahoo! Emoticons with your WordPress installation. To save some time for anyone else who wants to do this, I’ve made this tweak available for everyone.
Important: If something breaks, please keep in mind that I’ve only added smilies to an existing plugin. If you have problems, I recommend uninstalling this plugin and downloading the original plugin to see if it works first: http://goto8848.net/projects/custom-smilies/

Yahoo! Emoticons for Custom Smilies 2.3

I use Custom Smilies 2.3 plugin. However, I prefer Yahoo! emoticons. This is a tweak to allow use of those emoticons with Custom Smilies 2.3.

Keep Emoticons as Text vs Yahoo! Emoticons for Custom Smilies 2.3