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.

Use In Themes/Plugins

Font Emoticons are supported in most places where user defined text is displayed. However, there may be places in a
plugin or theme that are not supported by Font Emoticons.

In these cases, just apply the filter wp_font_emots_replace to the text that should display Font Emoticons.

For example, you would change the following PHP code:

<?php echo get_the_author_meta( 'description' ); ?> 

to this code:

<?php echo apply_filters('wp_font_emots_replace', get_the_author_meta( 'description' )); ?> 

That’s it.

Font Licenses

The emoticons used in this plugin are based on the fonts “Fontelico” and “Font Awesome”.

Fontelico

Copyright (C) 2012 by Fontello project

Author: Crowdsourced, for Fontello project
License: SIL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
Homepage: http://fontello.com

Font Awesome

Copyright (C) 2012 by Dave Gandy

Author: Dave Gandy
License: SIL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
Homepage: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/