Smileys
The Forum ☛ Components ☛ Smileys Options administration panel is where you enable and set your options for smileys in your forum and have the ability to upload your own custom smileys. You can select to use the default smileys packaged with Simple:Press Forum, the default WordPress smileys, or your own uploaded custom smiley set.
Smiley Options
There are three sets of ‘smileys’ available for use within the forum should you allow their use.
- Custom Smileys: These are smiley images that you, as the Admin upload for use and make available.
- TinyMCE Smileys: This set is limited and available through the smiley icon on the TinyMCE editor toolbar. You can not add to this set.
- WordPress Smileys: A limited set supplied with WordPress available only by typing in their code.
If you choose to allow the use of Smileys they should be turned on here and the preferred set selected. If ‘custom smileys’ are selected, they will appear in a bar underneath the post editing window where users can select and include them in their posts.
Custom Smiley Upload
If you have selected ‘Custom Smileys’, you can upload new images to the set delivered with the plugin. You will need to designate a name for the Smiley and the keyboard ‘code’ used to invoke it.
Custom Smileys
This shows the current contents of the ‘forum-smileys’ folder where custom smileys are stored. Apart, of course, from the actual image file, smileys require an identifying name and a code. Codes are most usually entered prefixed and suffixed with a colon – for example
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If you wish to remove one then click on the remove button at the end of the row. This will remove the entry and the image from the Smileys folder.
