Title: Emoticons using ‘*’
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Emoticons using ‘*’

 *  [tomreidonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomreidonline/)
 * (@tomreidonline)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emoticons-using/)
 * When a member of my blog inserts an asterisk (*) into their post, how can i set
   it so it automatically changes into an image? Like an Asterisk changing into 
   a picture of a star?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emoticons-using/#post-255692)
 * Podz’s guide might help:
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/smilies/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/smilies/)
 * Or you could use Scott Reilly’s text replace plugin to do something similar
 * [http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#textreplace](http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#textreplace)
 *  Thread Starter [tomreidonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomreidonline/)
 * (@tomreidonline)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emoticons-using/#post-255707)
 * Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emoticons-using/#post-255707)
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