WordPress: Yahoo/MSN Style Smiles Plugin

The default WordPress Smiles are very simple and boring, So Yahoo/MSN Style Smiles Plugin will let you spice it up by replacing built-in WordPress smiles with either Yahoo or MSN Messenger smiles. It also lets you put a clickable smiles quicktag above comments.

Installation:

  • Download smiley images from here
  • Extract and upload it to your wordpress root directory
  • Now download im_smiley.txt, its extension to .php (like im_smiley.php)
  • (If you need MSN Smiles) Edit im_smiley.php (Using Text Editor like notepad or VIM) and replace:

[code lang="php"]### $smiles_style let you choose yahoo or msn style smiley
### valid values are 'yahoo' or 'msn'
$smiles_style = 'yahoo';[/code]

With:

[code lang="php"]### $smiles_style let you choose yahoo or msn style smiley
### valid values are 'yahoo' or 'msn'
$smiles_style = 'msn';[/code]

  • Upload im_smiley.php to your plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/)
  • Activate the plugin (from WordPress Admin Menu >> Plugins)
  • Inorder to show clickable smiles above comments, you need to edit your theme’s comments.php (either from Theme Editor or using your favorite Text Editor)
  • Search for <textarea> and add the following line just above it.

[code lang="php"]<?php smiles_clickable() ?>[/code]

  • Done

Download Yahoo / MSN Style Plugin for WordPress

[tags]Wordpress, Plugins, Smilies[/tags]

This post was published by on May 1, 2006

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