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.

CodeAndReload

This plugin provides the option to enable/disable the usage of shortcodes in the default text widget provided by WordPress along with smilies if enabled for the blog.
<h3>Support</h3>
Technical support for this plugin will be provided via the WordPress plugin forum. Additional support may be 
available at <a href="http://www.codeandreload.com/wp-plugins/allow-shortcodes-in-text-widgets/" title="Allow Shortcodes in Text Widgets at Code
and Reload">plugin’s homepage</a>.

Allow Shortcodes in Text Widgets

This plugin provides the option to enable/disable the shortcodes in the default text widgets along with smilies.

Smilies Themer vs Allow Shortcodes in Text Widgets