Best smiley plugins for WordPress
The most popular smiley plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. wp-Monalisa leads with 600+ active installs, ahead of TinyMCE Smiley Button (500+) and Emoji Autocomplete Gutenberg (500+). All 17 plugins tagged “smiley” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 smiley plugins
- 1.
wp-MonalisaThe most installed smiley plugin, with 600+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 25 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
TinyMCE Smiley Button500+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 3.
Emoji Autocomplete Gutenberg500+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 5 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.0.
- 4.
WordPress.com Stats Smiley Remover300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.0.
- 5.
TinyMCE Emoticons100+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 6 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 6.
Moods Addon for Ultimate TinyMCE80+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 7.
Insert Text Symbols20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 8.
Kaskus Emoticons20+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 9.
WP Smiley Switcher10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.6.
- 10.
Stylish Smilies10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 17 plugins tagged “smiley”
wp-Monalisa
Down in the last 7 days:84#8,384by tuxlog11 months ago
wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.8(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TinyMCE Smiley Button
Down in the last 7 days:25#8,555by Cople6 years ago
Add Smiley Button to TinyMCE.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Emoji Autocomplete Gutenberg
Down in the last 7 days:84#8,656by eedee6 years ago
Just type : to get a popup of all available emojis (1719 different emojis!) and easily insert them in multiple Blocks.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WordPress.com Stats Smiley Remover
Up in the last 7 days:15#10,855by meagan hanes10 years ago
Removes the smiley face created by WordPress.com Stats and JetPack plugins for WordPress by adding a single line of CSS to your header.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TinyMCE Emoticons
Down in the last 7 days:61#14,210by Byte Labs11 years ago
TinyMCE Emoticons plugin helps to add emoticons in posts and pages easily.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.3(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Moods Addon for Ultimate TinyMCE
Down in the last 7 days:104#18,133by Josh14 years ago
Add over 50 animated smilies to your visual tinymce editor.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Insert Text Symbols
Up in the last 7 days:30#26,946by codingdude4 years ago
This plugin will add a button to the Gutenberg editor for inserting text symbols or emojis into your WordPress posts or pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kaskus Emoticons
Down in the last 7 days:319#27,913by nartzco14 years ago
Kaskus Emoticons is an emoticon set inspired by Kaskus, the Largest Indonesian Community
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 2/day
WP Smiley Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:797#40,460by Jenst18 years ago
Change your smileys to another smiley pack or use your own smileys.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stylish Smilies
#42,738by j14 years ago
Stylish Smilies adds CSS classes to text-based emoticons.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Locco Emoticons
#43,643by Sebas10 years ago
Locco Emoticons is an emoticon set inspired by Andrei Sebastian.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emoji Reactions
Up in the last 7 days:2,416#43,792by stuartquin11 years ago
Add emoji reactions to posts, pages and comments. Inspired by Slack
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Smilies Directory
Down in the last 7 days:11,921#48,005by Jose Pardilla14 years ago
Light plugin that tells WordPress to load Smilies from your theme's directory. This allows you to use custom Smilies without loosing them when yo …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HappySmilePro
Down in the last 7 days:626#49,523by vparmaala8 days ago
Let visitors rate your site with three smileys. See the results in your dashboard. Custom colours and size. English and Finnish.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 39/day
Antarnisti Smiley for Kaskus
Up in the last 7 days:5,729#57,688by Tom Antarnisti5 months ago
Adds an Antarnisti smiley shortcode set for Kaskus-style emoticons to WordPress posts, comments, the Classic Editor, and the comment form.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SmileyHub Emoji Kit
Down in the last 7 days:11,681#69,291by Mumtahina Faguni2 months ago
Emoji picker for Gutenberg editor that integrates colon-triggered autocomplete like Slack, Discord & custom emoji uploads for all rich-text blocks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vote & Smiley Reaction
#73,508by anspress4 years ago
Add vote and reactions to posts, comments and taxonomies.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day