Christian Leuenberg

WordPress comes with a built-in replacement function that turns 🙂 etc. into emojis. If you need to switch this off, simply install and activate this plugin. It’s that simple.

Really Disable Emojis

Disables the automatic emojis (smilies) replacement function. Really! :-)

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.

Really Disable Emojis vs Smilies Themer