There are several changes in this version. Most of the changes involved optimization in both code and execution, which I will continue working on for future versions.

More details, including the changelog, can be found here, and you can get Tango Smileys Extended here.

The truth is, TSE reached a stable point and I didn’t have it in me to make any more changes. Why fix what’s not broken?

Unfortunately, something was broken, only I didn’t see it. Even when it was reported that there was a problem, I couldn’t figure out the issue so I didn’t know what to fix. As it turns out, special characters such as quotes and symbols are escaped by WordPress. Escaping this < turns it into this &lt;. When followed by a right parenthesis, ), TSE would take &lt;) and turn it into < which is WRONG. Once I realized what was causing the problem, the solution was simple, which leads us to this update.

There has also been an update to the options page. Users can select any smiley size from 16px to 24px to better fit their theme. Users may also specify a percentage for the width of the comment smiley box.

As always, the full change log and information can be found here, and Tango Smileys Extended can be downloaded here.

Then, I stomped that bug.

That bug is dead.

Get Tango Smileys Extended here, and get more information about it here.

I think my next goal will be to have additional smiley packages available, still using the Tango style. Maybe plugins for Tango Smileys Extended, so they would be a separate download but simple to install and activate.

As usual, you can get Tango Smileys Extended here, and you can get more information on the Tango Smileys Extended page here.

Iconified Taxonomies takes the standard taxonomies provided by the WordPress core — categories and tags — and adds icons to them. When a post is displayed, instead of having a basic list of categories and tags for the post, why not have icons that make each tag or category stand out?

A few things are required to complete the installation of Iconified Taxonomies. For starters, you must be comfortable editing your theme. If you don’t feel comfortable editing your theme, then you should avoid this plugin. The edits are not hard, as it only involves adding one line of code for categories and a second line for tags, but if you are not comfortable editing your theme, please do not download this plugin. Next, you must be familiar with uploading files to your WordPress installation folder. It doesn’t matter if it is via FTP or a web interface, but there is no built-in interface (yet) for uploading.

Full instructions are provided on the official Iconified Taxonomies page here, and a live demonstration is available anywhere on this site! Just look at any post and the categories will have icons associated with them. I’m still working on uploading all of my icons for tags, but the result will be the same as the categories.

You can download Iconified Taxonomies below, or by visiting the official Iconified Taxonomies page.

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The 24px smileys, which were previously available by download-and-replace only, are now included standard. To use the new 24px smileys, just select the option on the TSE Options page. I also updated the tinyMCE popup so it would automatically keep up-to-date with new smiley additions. A couple of bugs were also fixed in this update.

For full details on Tango Smileys Extended you can go here, and if you want to download your own copy you can get that here.

1. The newly revamped options page is now significantly faster and more secure.
2. TSE can now be cleanly uninstalled (all options are removed from the database).
3. Smileys now have tooltips!

As always, you can get more information on Tango Smileys Extended 2.6.0.1 here, and you can download your own copy here.

I don’t know how I missed it when I was testing!

Anyway, version 2.5.6.1 fixes the issue that was created in 2.5.6.0, so users should update to the newest version as soon as possible. I’m sorry to anyone who had an issue with the previous version.

You can get Tango Smileys Extended 2.5.6.1 here, and get more information here.

TSE can be disabled on Posts and/or Pages, the CTI interface is only loaded on pages that can use it (saves tons of memory), and other enhancements have been added to increase performance.

You can get Tango Smileys Extended 2.5.6.0 here, and get more information here.

I added a button to the HTML editor for posts and pages, so CTI smileys are available even without the TinyMCE editor.

You can get Tango Smileys Extended 2.5.4.1 here, and get more information here.