Description
As of 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.
Installation
- Upload the
keep-emoticons-as-textdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
FAQ
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Does this add any overhead to WordPress?
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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.
Reviews
Taylor Gorman
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.
davidg939
October 31, 2019
Great plugin, I need it!
FGU Nord / Lars
May 21, 2019
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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…
antonio7
January 29, 2017
I’ve been looking for this plugin for so long!
Catfish-hh
November 12, 2016
spares me unwanted visual clutter – easy and efficient. Thanks a lot.
Contributors & Developers
“Keep Emoticons as Text” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release