Old Smilies

How to return the old emoticons? ??

Thzat doesn’t work with this plugin. You have to search for another one. ??

yes after using this plugin old wp smilies did not work.

The old smilies have been removed from WordPress. To add them back in, try the Classic Smilies plugin from Otto …

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/classic-smilies/

The Disable Emoji’s plugin will turn them into basic smiley symbols, so they should still work, they’ll just look a little different.

I actually use this plugin myself as I prefer those smilies, but I think I hacked it up to make it work (it was a long time ago and I can’t remember) as it is terribly out of date … https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/tango-smilies/