Smile: Our New Emoticons Have Arrived!
We just gave our emoticons a loving redesign. Check them out: they’re sure to bring a smile to your face.
Fan of smileys? 🙂 We are. That’s why we just redesigned them to be cleaner, simpler, bigger, more expressive, and modern.
😉 😀
These new smileys are actually vector graphics, so they’ll stay crisp if you zoom in on your page. They’ll also stay sharp on high-resolution mobile displays.
😎 ⭐
To find out how to use an emoticon appearing in this post, just hover over it and you’ll see which characters produce it. We’re working on expanding our collection, so stay tuned for more smiley fun.
XD 
😦 😥 😐 
😮 😛 😡 
❤
If you’re not a fan of smileys, that’s okay! You can always turn them off and on in your dasbhoard under Settings → Writing. We hope you’ll have fun with these. Smile!
Bonus: We also created a few secret emoticons for you to discover. Good luck finding them! 😉
❤
- March 21, 2014
- Better Blogging, Design, Features
WordPress.com News 
Finally! But they kinda remind me of those from G+. 😉
LikeLiked by 3 people
😀
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Stuff I find on the internet and commented:
New smilies on WordPress.com!
LikeLike
I am irrationally excited about these… 🙂
LikeLike
I love ’em, almost as much as I love burritos! 🌯
LikeLike
Yay, I love smileys! It’s always fun to see new ones 😀
LikeLike
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
LikeLike
❤ it!
LikeLike
Yay! This makes me smile!
LikeLiked by 1 person
There is no way I’m going to “discover” these. Your going to have to tell me. It would be nice if this how to make them page was somehow on my dashboard when I’m posting. Have pity on the old and uncool.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Pretty cool! I’ve been bored with all of the other smileys but these might actually not be boring!!!
LikeLike
I miss the aggressive “evil” devil smiley. Now there is a grinning smiley with this code. 👿
LikeLiked by 1 person
😎
LikeLiked by 1 person
❤ Great to have these – now I have a reference guide for all the characters 😀
LikeLike
Wonderful. Another blogger and I were just discussing how much we’d like some additional emoticons a couple of days ago. Very nice work.
LikeLike
What a nice surprise! Thank you!! 🙂 ❤ 🙂 ❤ 🙂
LikeLike
Burrito?!?
🌯
Awesome.
LikeLike
Sweet, now everything can be a little more awesome 😉
LikeLike
🌯 ! Can’t wait to figure out some more (feel free to share any you figure out)!
LikeLike
I always hated using the old ones… These are cute!
Spoiler alert! 🙂
http://jannekevandorpe.com/2014/03/19/secret-new-wordpress-smileys/
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love using emoticons. You smile they smile. That is so awesome. Smile your heart out and show what you are feeling. Even if it something sad or even of course the best one happy! :p
LikeLike
Skip the game and show me the secret ones! Please! ^^’
LikeLiked by 1 person
you have NO IDEA how much this EXCITES me!!!!! 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Tammy Hopkinson MBA and commented:
Awesome addition to our posts….Thanks!
LikeLike
Beautiful! Have a drink on me! 🍸
LikeLike
Drinks for everyone!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice 😉
LikeLike
Cool, bro!
LikeLike
😉 Thanks!
LikeLike
I like them!!!
LikeLike
I’ve already noticed that. Just saying… 😉
LikeLike
Joen, you are so 😎
LikeLike
🐻
LikeLike
Awesome!!! I ❤ smileys!! 😀 😀 😀
LikeLike
I miss the animation and the crisp look. 🙄 does not look like an eyeroll and 😯 does not look shocked and 😳 is just plain red, it doesn’t blush; 👿 and 😈 look alike and have no personality. In short, I much prefer the old ones. Can I get them back?
LikeLiked by 3 people
We will be polishing and fixing issues, as well as add more smileys. You raise some good points here, which we will be taking a look at. Thanks for the feedback.
LikeLike
So glad the look of the emoticons made it into the 21st century finally! ❤
LikeLike
what fun ❤
LikeLike
Awesome!! The old ones were kind of getting a bit boring, THANK YOU WORDPRESS! Have re-blogged this onto my site 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll give you a, “Like,” but, alas, another thing for me to learn………..
LikeLike
Beary nice! 🐻
LikeLike
I like your style, dude.
LikeLike
Thanks WordPress! This is by far, a happy thing! I sure like emoticons. So glad you posted this news about the Smiley Faces and the rest of the emoticons. I am happy to be a WordPress blog author!
LikeLike
Fun! Nice job & thx!
LikeLike
:martini: Cheers! :heart: them! 😀
LikeLike
Thanks but no thanks. Much prefer the old ones, and as another commented, these are like Gmail ones – which I dislike.
LikeLike
I love WordPress emoticons. Thank you so much 🙂
LikeLike
nice (y)
LikeLike
Men!! Hafta change things just to change it. STOP IT!! It ain’t broke,stop fixin’it.
Give me my old stuff back. I’m 70.5 years old. This is too much to deal with.
LikeLike
Oh please tell me you have a :beer:
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks & I Love the heart ♥
LikeLike
Awesome! I won’t remember half of the shortcuts, but cool!
LikeLike
Oh I’m in love with the new emoticons ❤
LikeLike
Nice and sleek. I agree with @juppcamper, they do remind me of Google+ emoticons, especially the Google+ Hangouts.
LikeLike
I find myself using these a lot in comments – probably too much. I think this is a really good improvement. Thank you. 🙂
LikeLike
Looks like the text ones don’t convert. I updated my post, I think I figured them all out now. 😉
See link in my comment above.
Also, WP.com, ’8)’ doesn’t work any more.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay!! Let’s all smile 🙂
LikeLike
Great! These are much better!
LikeLike
Smileys are both boring and mundane. Something more original would have been much nicer.
LikeLike
Oooo! I love smileys (probably to a fault). I just used my first smiley in a draft post and noticed how cool they looked. I may blame WP for my future smiley abuse 🙂 .
LikeLike
I wonder what the hidden smilies are?
Is there anyway of testing?
:love:
T.T
>.<
LikeLike
These are so adorable ❤ 😀
LikeLike
I hovered over them and nothing happened. What am I doing wrong.
LikeLike
If you rest your cursor over a smiley and wait for a couple of seconds, a little tooltip should show up, revealing the smiley code you need to type.
LikeLike
Thank you. I was trying on my iPad, will now try on my computer.
LikeLike
whoo hoo 😮
LikeLike
Noticed ‘em right away, and think they’re terrific ! Many thanks ! You’re right: they’re much more expressive … Question: could there be something stuck into our dashboards by way of a legend, please ? ⭐
LikeLike
A legend or selector in the dashboard is a very good idea.
LikeLike
OTY then, you clever people !
And reiterated thanks – they really are super.
LikeLike
But when I type on my blog it’s still the old smileys
LikeLike
Please verify you have smileys turned on for your blog. You can see that in your dashboard, under Settings > Writing.
LikeLike
Smileys are turned on, and they do appear, but the old ones. Not these.
LikeLike
They do show up for me on your blog. It could be cache in your browser, which you can verify by trying to load the site in a different browser. If the problem persists, please contact support.
LikeLike
its really nice
LikeLike
Yay! Thank you! 🌯
LikeLike
How fun! 🙂
LikeLike
much better than the old ones!!! 🙂
LikeLike
🐻 we have a bear now too?
LikeLike
I knew those looked new! Love it! I’m fighting just randomly typing things to see if any make one of those secret ones… ahhhhh :wordpress: :sexy: :secret: :yay: :moo: :haha: (hoping one of those worked)
LikeLike
So cute!! ❤
LikeLike
Wow I’m ❤ it!
LikeLike
nice 🙂
LikeLike
Not as good as the old ones IMHO. I appreciate having additional ones, which aren’t hard to do yourself with shortcodes by the way, but the old ones much better reflected the expression they were intended to reflect.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Add me to the short list of people who don’t approve of this change, and it looks like I’ll be using emoticons from other places from this time forward.
LikeLiked by 2 people
wow!
LikeLike
really cute! The first I saw was the heart and I was all like “how did I do this? *o* “
LikeLike
Nice! ♡♥:-D
LikeLike
❤
LikeLike
Nice 🙂
LikeLike
that was awesome
LikeLike
They’re so cute! XD
LikeLike
Awesome! ❤
LikeLike
They look exactly the same as any other
LikeLike
These are fantastic! 😀
LikeLike
oh i like it ❤
LikeLike
i love words more then smileys
LikeLike
Great news!
LikeLike
I’ve often wondered why people put ❤ on Facebook!
LikeLike
What I meant was < 3 (leaving a gap may stop it turning into an emoticon???)
LikeLike
Cute and hilarious. 😛 😀 Brilliant. ❤
LikeLike
awesome, will this work on self-hosted as well?
LikeLike
Not at this time.
LikeLike
Good 💡
LikeLiked by 1 person
Awesome! Welcome back to the 90’s! 🎉 \o/
But seriously, are “alternate” emoticons supported, like those that have a dash or an equal sign as a nose? Thanks!
LikeLike
Most of these work with dashes as well. In fact the 😎 only works with a dash.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like to use a smiley face every now and then but I won’t remember the codes. I have used them on other sites when commenting and I just had to pick a face from a legend. Having a selector, as mentioned above, would work for me. Thanks!
LikeLike
LikeLike
I love my s4 keyboard with these in it. .. ;)🐶🍻🌳🌻🚙🎱
LikeLike
Oh no, the smiley faces on my blogposts are not where they are supposed to be anymore after these changes 😦 They are all out of place..
LikeLike
They look alright to me, try to refresh the page.
LikeLike
Still not working. They new emoticons appear outside the text field, beside the photos in some places instead of in the text, maybe it’s just a temporary thing.
LikeLike
Confirmed. Sorry about that. Should be fixed now, if you reload this time.
LikeLike
They do! Thank you very much 🙂 Have a great day!
LikeLike
Awesome! ❤ 😎
LikeLike
Great! This is awesome! XD
LikeLike