No smilies

No idea, anyone? ??

a) vars.php in the include folder. Is anything (any smileys) listed in the conversion table ?
b) wp-images: are there pics in the smileys subfolder ?

All smilies appear in vars.php and also in wp-images/smilies.

This is the vars.php – anything wrong with it?
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If you get no errors, nothing is wrong with it.
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Can we have a link to your site ?

Yes, https://www.rhabarbara.info/blog

When you go back to the activate emoticons page, is the option still checked ?
It looks very much like WP is not even making the effort to change them.

Well spotted Beel !:)

@podz: you mean in the writing options? yes, the option is still checked.
@beel: I see your smiley but don’t really understand how you made it appear there

What Beel says: do not put the “smiley” at the beginning of the line ??

I activated the wp-grins plugin – but where are these smileys?

I don’t see any code, podz. Is there something missing in your text?

Wow, beel, it works for the comments :-)))) Thanks!!!
And is there also a way to get them into the writing section?

Same, same.