okie, i thought someone has figured it out by now. but when i asked on the wordpress board, i got no response. so i digged around and figured a hack for it.
i noticed sometimes esp. on some pages, the smiley conversion does a poor job and converts the wrong text into smilies. it really mars my content. personally i want to be able to just turn the smiley off for a certain post or page.
the best way i can think of to do it is via a hack.
open your wp-includes/functions-formatting.php file, try find the function (possibly line 576):
function convert_smilies($text) {
then under it, replace:
global $wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace; $output = ''; if (get_settings('use_smilies')) {
with:
global $wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace, $post; $output = ''; $smileykey = get_post_meta($post->ID, "disable_smiley", TRUE); if (get_settings('use_smilies') && $smileykey != 'true') {
that’s all i needed to do.
now next time you write a new post/post, simply create a custom field with the key disable_smiley and value true to disable smiley conversion for just that post/page. isn’t that neat? 🙂
Pure-Essence.Net 
sweet little tutorial…
Nice trick. Is there a way to completely disable the smilies? Maybe comment out the whole function block….?
This is good……..
I would love to find away of disableing smilies for all my blog!!!!
AzizLight did you find away of doing this?
Thanks for the info–very useful–Andy
Great post, thanks for the info.
how to use Word Press as a CMS. really trying hard to find about it plzz help….
:blush: :biggrin: how to use WordPress as a CMS.
Is there a way to completely disable the smilies? Maybe comment out the whole function block?
Hey, thank you for this article. I was searching for these information, thank you very much.
Ethan
Thanks for this. Just the thing I was looking for to get rid of those annoying smiley conversions.
If you want to avoid smiley face parsing of something you type, you can put the HTML 4 zero-width non-joiner character entity reference, [ampersand]zwnj[semicolon], between the colon and the next letter.
Try it (alasno WordPress preview!) :opera , :opera
my content is really from Mars. Personally, I want to be able to simply turn the smiley from a post or page.