Keep old smilies

Hi Johannes,

Thanks for reaching out, and my apologies for such a late reply!

In the 1.0.5 update, it reads (I should’ve used a spellchecker…):

Fixed: New WordPress installations (4.3 and up) don’t have the option to turn off smileys. This leads to incorrect character encoding of smiley abbrev[i]ations, like ?? and :D. Therefor[e] the whole function to encode characters will be removed if emojis are set to “disabled”.
Fixed: Old WordPress installations with WordPress 4.3 and up will automatically set the smileys to off if Emoji support is disabled for the same reason as above. This only has effect after updating the page for the first time.

To summarize, it means that there’s a discrepancy between old and new WordPress installations, and that function accounts for it as a catch-all; so to alleviate confusion and general annoyance: People who use this plugin often don’t want smileys at all.

Nevertheless, you can override the [ cw_emoji_settings(), 'wp430_support' ] callback like so (code ref):

// Adds a sanitation filter to the 'enable_emoji' setting; runs right after it's done sanitizing (priority 11).
add_filter( 'sanitize_option_enable_emoji', function( $options ) {
	// Reenable the option after Emoji Settings disables it.
	if ( isset( $_POST['use_smilies'] ) && '1' === $_POST['use_smilies'] )
		update_option( 'use_smilies', '1' );

	// Return the Emoji Settings options.
	return $options;
}, 11 );

I hope this helps ?? Cheers!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Sybre Waaijer. Reason: Added POST value check for the option

Hi,

thanks for the reply and the added filter possibility! I ended up deactivating the emoji support manually for now, but it’s nice to know that I could still use your plugin if disabling the emojis would change in future WordPress versions. Also, my smilies all have “noses”, so that’s probably why I don’t have any encoding problems so far. ??

Greetings,
Johannes

It’s nice to know this wasn’t a big hindrance after all; I’m glad you’ve found a workaround ?? Have a great week!