I have a question for DivaMaggie, since it sounds like you’re having no problems with custom-smilies in 2.5…
I followed the plugin homepage instructions and completed all of the text entries for the smilies (from WP’s Using Smilies listing). So the smilies show correctly at the bottom of the Write panel.
Then I copied this code from the plugin home page and pasted where it said in the comments.php before the form:
<?phpif ( function_exists(cs_print_smilies) ) {cs_print_smilies();}?>
But when I opened the post there was a parsing error saying the ‘{‘ was unexpected. Tried changing the brackets to parenthesis, but no luck. Tried moving it within the form, but no luck.
After all of that, I tried uncommenting the default WordPress smiley code in the comments.php and that worked. I actually tried to just uncomment and use the default smiley code which displayed the images for the buttonbar but did not in the saved comment (displayed the text). But after completing the plugin form with all the smiley text, it now displays the correct smiley in the saved comment.
So, this strange workaround combo works for now but I’m guessing you got it to work with the line of code pasted into comments.php as recommended by custom-smilies, right? Can you tell me how you did that?
Thanks!