I would like to start by apologizing to everyone who requested assistance with TSE during my absence these last 17 days. An unfortunate turn of events took place on March 12th that left me without a computer and internet access until today. A capacitor decided to explode on my motherboard and took my northbridge with it. (Yes, it decided to explode. It was conspiring against me.)

I just finished building my new computer and getting the basics installed, and this post is the first thing I’ve decided to do before continuing with setting up the rest of the computer.

Now, to the problems at hand:

The issue that people are having with the CTI for Tango Smileys Extended is partly my fault in the wording I used to explain how to insert the CTI into the comments.php file. Here is the better explained way to add the CTI to your comments.php file:

  1. Open your comments.php file.
  2. Find the comment textarea, which should look something like <textarea name="comment" id="comment"></textarea>
  3. If you want the CTI smileys above the textarea, type
    <?php tse_cti_anywhere(); ?> before the textarea.
  4. If you want the CTI smileys below the textarea, type
    <?php tse_cti_anywhere(); ?> after the textarea.
  5. Save your comments.php file.

The extra stuff that I listed in my original instructions was for people who wanted to use the CTI smileys with other plugins, and is not needed to add the CTI smileys to the comments.

Hope this helps!