Custom smileys for comment area

I’ve set up custom WordPress smileys by editing /wp-include/functions.php‘s smilies_init(). Once I updated WordPress, all custom smileys on the server got deleted and the functions.php was replaced, so that I had to make the same changes all over again.

I am able to prohibit WordPress to delete the smiley icons during an upgrade by changing the file permissions and ownership. But I don’t know how to make the changes of smilies_init() permanent.

I would like to rewrite the above function in my custom themes’ function.php, but that may not work, because smilies_init() gets loaded beforehand. I’d also like to embed an alternative directory for my icons to load from.

I also miss a feature to display all available smileys above the comment field for users to click and insert.

Can you help me out?

• This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by t-p.