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
</code></pre>
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.

tompahoward

The Tiny Emotions plugin re-adds smilies and other emotion icons to the TinyMCE Rich Visual Editor 
The TinyMCE emotions plugin is normally bundled with TinyMCE, but it has be removed from the 
version within WordPress. This plugin puts it back in.
Most of the credit for this plugin belongs to [Moxiecode Systems] (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ ), 
who wrote the emotions plugin for TinyMCE, which this plugin uses.
<h3>Release Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.0.1
<ul>
<li>Added workaround for TinyMCE compressor issues.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>0.0.0
<ul>
<li>Initial Release</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Tiny Emotions

The Tiny Emotions plugin re-adds smilies and other emotion icons to the TinyMCE Rich Visual Editor

Smilies Themer vs Tiny Emotions