Font Emoticons

Replaces Wordpress' smileys (based on images) with font-based emoticons (see screenshots). Font-based emoticons have some advantages:

• They have the same size as the surrounding text. No more distorting the heights of lines containing smileys/emoticons. They always fit the font size.
• They have the same color as the surrounding text.

Note: This plugin was developed when Wordpress was still using "pixel images" as emoticons. The current version of Wordpress uses scalable vector images (SVG) - so they won't distort your line heights anymore and look crisp on any size. This makes this plugin less useful than it once was - it now comes down to personal preference whether to use it. The following emoticons are supported:

• :) :-) (-: (: :smile:
• :( :-( :sad:
• ;) ;-) :wink:
• :P :-P :razz:
• -.- -_- :sleep:
• >:) >:-) :devil: :twisted:
• :o :-o :eek:
• 8O 8o 8-O 8-o :shock: (No special icon for "shock" yet. Using "eek" instead.)
• :coffee:
• 8) 8-) B) B-) :cool:
• :/ :-/
• :beer:
• :D :-D :grin:
• x( x-( X( X-( :angry:
• :x :-x :mad: (No special icon from "mad" yet. Using "angry" instead.)
• O:) 0:) o:) O:-) 0:-) o:-) :saint:
• :'( :'-( :cry:
• :shoot:
• |) :squint:
• ^^ ^_^ :lol:

The following general purpose icons are supported:

• :thumbs: :thumbsup:
• :thumbsdown:
• <3 :heart:
• :star:
• (/) (ok sign)
• (x) (cancel)
• (i)
• (?)
• (+)
• (-)

Notes:

• Emoticons/Icons must be surrounded with spaces (or other white space characters); e.g. the emoticon in that:)smile won't be replaced.
• Emoticons/Icons won't be replaced in HTML tags nor inside of <pre> or <code> blocks.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload the font-emoticon directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

1.5.0

• Change: Font-Emoticons is now hosted as Git repo on GitHub. (Thus, the issue numbering will reset.)
• Change: font-emoticons now uses a (hopefully) a better way to disable Wordpress' own emoticons.

1.4.1

• Feature: Added general purpose filter called wp_font_emots_replace. This filter can be used to replace emoticons in places not supported by this plugin.

1.4.0

• Feature: Implemented rudimentary bbpress support. I don't use bbpress, so some parts may still no display emoticons correctly. (issue #10)
• Feature: Emoticons are now also replace in the text sidebar widget.
• Fix: emoticons.css no longer gets an unnecessary ?v= parameter attached (Wordpress does this automatically on its own); also made the style's name more unique so that it's less likely to conflict with other plugins.
• Fix: Replaced usage of internal constant WP_PLUGIN_URL with plugins_url()

1.3.1

• Fix: Self closing span (<span/>) seems to be invalid in some cases. Replaced it with regular <span></span> (issue #8)

1.3

• Feature: New emoticon "squint": |) or :squint:
• Feature: Added some general purpose icons like <3 (heart) or :thumbsdown: (:thumbsup: got changed to icon from emoticon)
• Change: PHP 5.3 is now required
• Change: "devil" and "eek" got more text representations; "smile" now also supports the Australian version (-:
• Change: Made font and css classes more unique so that they don't interfer with other icon fonts (issue #7)
• Fix: Multiple consecutive emoticons are now parsed correctly (issue #5); emoticons surrounded by HTML tags (like <li>:)</li>) are now parsed correctly.
• Fix: Wider emoticons now flow correctly with surrounding text (no longer overlap it) (issue #4)

1.2

• Emoticons are now supported in comments and excerpts. (issue #1)

1.1

• Emoticons are no longer replaced in URLs. Instead they now require surrounding white space.
• Emoticons at the beginning and the end of posts are recognized now.

1.0

• First release.