Have you ever wondered how people get smiley faces in their blog posts or comments?

Maybe I am the only one who does not know how to do this.

I know it is really a simple concept.  I sometimes find the most obvious things are the things that so easily stump me.  I have put smileys many other places, but putting them into my posts and comments seemed overwhelming.

The other day when I received more comments with the cute little smilies, I decided that I had to figure out how to put these in my posts and comments.

I found that putting smilies into my posts to be quite simple.

I actually installed a plugin that added to my Kitchen Sink/Tool Bar above where I compose my post.  In this additional tool bar is a smiliey icon.  This makes it really simple.  I just have to click on the icon and it gives me the choice of several different smilies, I choose one and that smiley appears in my post.

The plug in I used was TinyMCE Advanced.  This plugin is very simple to install.

Go to “Plugins” in your WordPress back office and select “add new”.  Type in TinyMCE Advanced and click on search.  The following screen will come up.

You can see here that the plugin that we want to use is the top one. Click install and then activate after it is installed.

Once this is done your tool bar above where you compose your post will look like this.

You can just click on the smiley face and put smiles in your post.

I however found putting smiles in my comments to be somewhat more difficult.

This is actually what I started out wanting to do.  Don’t know why but I have never really found the need or desire to put smiles in my posts as of yet.  I did however want to put them in comments several times.

The problem with comments is there is no tool bar above where I compose comments with a smiley on it to click when I wanted to insert a   smiley into a comment.

What I found though is it is not all that difficult to put the codes in for smilies.

I know that some html codes can be inserted into comments.  The problem is the ability to insert html into comments can be disabled.  For this reason I have avoided html in comments on the off chance the owner of the site disabled the html capability.

I am thinking that the smiley codes are not disabled when html is or at least that is what I am hoping.

I found this chart that tells how to include all of the smilies that WordPress allows.  Just type in the code where you want the smilie to be and it will show up after you submit your comment.

This is really simple, but just one of those things that struck me as being really complicated.

I hope this helped someone else also.  I am going to start including smilies in my comments now.

If you have any information on the topic of smilies that I did not cover here and think would be beneficial to me or anyone else, please leave a comment.

I love getting comment and would love to hear from you.