Smileys, otherwise known as Emoticons

Who doesn’t want to brighten someone’s day when their reading? Well this is yet another great feature from WordPress, which allows you to do this in your Posts.

See, by default WordPress automatically translates the correct combination of punctuation marks and turns them into “Smileys”. For instance to get this Smiley , you would type the : ) without the space. Or if you wanted to get this Smiley  you would type : ( without the spaces.

The next great thing is there are thousands of Smileys, and a quick Google search reveals them all to you.

So by default if you type the correct combination you will get your animated smileys. Below is a list you can use just in case you decide to spruce up the happy on your blog posts!

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To Disable Smileys follow these quick steps:

1. Admin Panel
2. Select Settings -> Writing
3. In the Formatting section, uncheck the box for “Convert emoticons like and to graphics on display”