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Emoticons

Smiles and emoticons are one of the most used feature in all kind of communities, chats, forums and blogs. It’s an essential solution if you want to display your emotion in a text . wpForo uses native WordPress emoticons. You can insert emoticon code in post content and it’ll be replaced to yellow emoji on post.

What Text Do I Type to Make Smileys?

Emoji are not Smileys

Currently WordPress and wpForo uses Emoji. Emoji are a newer development than smileys (a.k.a. emoticons). They are created differently, and handled differently by operating systems and web browsers. They work based on smile codes mentioned in the table above and they look bit different: