How To: Add Smilies To Your WordPress Blog with Smilies Themer

By Kyle Eslick on January 25th, 2008 | Filed Under How-To
Tag(s): Emoticons, Smilies, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

Have you ever noticed those cute little smilies that some WordPress bloggers use to show emotions within their posts? Offering these has become quite the trend around the blogosphere.

As a user of WordPress, there are a few WordPress plugins available for you to easily offer smilies to commentators on your blog. My plugin of choice to accomplish this is the Smilies Themer plugin. Once uploaded and activated, you can then pick a smilies theme to use.

A variety of people have submitted smilies themes for this plugin, and many come in a variety of colors. My favorite was provided by Nyssa J Brown called the XPressions Emoticon Pack. You can choose from a variety of colors:

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There Are 5 Responses So Far. »

1 K-IntheHouse
Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 8:03 am

Great looking smilies there, Kyle! I love the green ones.. :-p
2 Kyle Eslick
Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 11:51 am

@ K - Ironically enough, I thought of your site when I was working on that screenshot.
3 K-IntheHouse
Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

That’s awesome buddy! Too bad I didn’t make it! Just kidding..
4 Helena
Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

I’ve been using this plugin too. And with all these great smileys I sometimes find it hard to choose a pack to stick with.