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Keep Emoticons as Text

by Geek Goddess

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Description

This plugin was created because with 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 when that update happened.

Now that setting has returned to the Writing Settings, so you can simply uncheck the box again there, but in case WordPress removes the setting again, this plugin will remain available.

  1. Upload the keep-emoticons-as-text directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Does this add any overhead to WordPress?

No, it’s one line of code. It’s being posted as a plugin for convenience for those who don’t want to edit their theme functions file.

Exactly what it needs to be.

By Taylor Gorman (taylorgorman) on October 27, 2022

The actual functioning PHP code is just one line, which is exactly what it needs to be. I went from "How do I turn this off on my client's site" to Google to an article to installing this plugin to problem completely solved in literally one minute. Thank you for being awesome.

Works great!

By davidg939 on October 31, 2019

Great plugin, I need it!

Works

By FGU Nord / Lars (medieskolen) on May 21, 2019

🙂

Super massive code #irony

By jave.web on April 12, 2017

The super "massive" code of this plugin is, literally, : add_filter( 'option_use_smilies', '__return_false' ); altough for newer PHP 5.3+ I would suggest add_filter('option_use_smilies',function(){ return false; }); I fear the times, when you will have to install separate plugin for every WordPress option...

Oh, my God!

By antonio7 on January 29, 2017

I've been looking for this plugin for so long!

Thank you

By Catfish-hh on November 12, 2016

spares me unwanted visual clutter - easy and efficient. Thanks a lot.

Simple, so lightweight and efficient

By DragoWeb (dragoeco) on September 3, 2016

Thanks a lot for this. Searched for a solution during hours, tried so many things, but only this solved my problem.

Thanks!

By vetchyKocour on September 3, 2016

Thanks to this small plugin I does not need to modify the templates to achieve the same effect. Even if it's just one line of code 🙂

Good job, thank you!

1.0.0

  • Initial release
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