Title: Stylish Smilies
Author: j
Published: <strong>August 20, 2012</strong>
Last modified: September 1, 2012

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Stylish Smilies

 By [j](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joe-anzalone/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stylish-smilies.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stylish-smilies/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stylish-smilies/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stylish-smilies/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stylish-smilies/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stylish-smilies/)

## Description

Stylish Smilies adds CSS classes to text-based emoticons.
 You can then reference
these classes in your theme to style each emoticon differently:

    ```
    .smiley {
    /* Applies to all emoticons */
      color: black;
      font-weight: bold;
    }

    .biggrin {
    /* Applies to :D only */
      background: green;
    }
    ```

This plugin affects the following smilies:

    ```
    8-) cool
     8O eek
    8-O eek
     :( sad
    :-( sad
     :) smile
    :-) smile
    :-? confused
     :D biggrin
    :-D biggrin
     :P razz
    :-P razz
     :o surprised
    :-o surprised
     :x mad
    :-x mad
     :| neutral
    :-| neutral
     ;) wink
    ;-) wink
    ```

## Installation

 1. Extract the zip file and drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory
    of your WordPress installation and then activate the plugin from the “Plugins” 
    page.
 2. Add some custom CSS in your theme’s style.css file to style your emoticons
 3. Start using emoticons in your posts and pages!

## FAQ

  How do I get my old smiley icons back?

Disable the “Stylish Smilies” plugin via the “Plugin” panel (/wp-admin/plugins.php)

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Stylish Smilies” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ j ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joe-anzalone/)

[Translate “Stylish Smilies” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/stylish-smilies)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stylish-smilies/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stylish-smilies/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/stylish-smilies/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/stylish-smilies/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First version ever!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tags
 * [ascii](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ascii/)[css](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/css/)
   [emoticon](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/emoticon/)[smiley](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/smiley/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stylish-smilies/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ j ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joe-anzalone/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stylish-smilies/)

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