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! :-)

Jeff Waugh

Replace the blocky default (GIF) smilies with beautiful Tango/GNOME (PNG) smilies.
If you want to use this plugin with a version of WordPress prior to 2.8, please use version 2.0.

Tango/GNOME Smilies

Replace the blocky default (GIF) smilies with beautiful Tango/GNOME (PNG) smilies.

Really Disable Emojis vs Tango/GNOME Smilies