After a very, very long time working on a way to add a button to the MCEComments toolbar, I finally got it working.

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.

Holy crap! It’s been over a year since Tango Smileys Extended was updated! What happened?!?

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.

I found that pesky bug preventing Tango Smileys Extended from working with MCEComments.

Then, I stomped that bug.

That bug is dead.

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

I finally finished separating the smileys into groups which can be enabled and disabled for comments. Some people would rather limit the number of smileys available to their commentators, and now they have the ability to do so, even while still having the full set available when authoring posts and pages.

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.

I’ve been sitting on this update for a while because I wanted to really make it worth downloading, but now it’s ready!

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.

Tango Smileys Extended 2.6.0.1 brings the minimum version requirement of WordPress up to 2.8 and offers many optimizations over the previous version of TSE.

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.