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wp-Monalisa
wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.8★ from 25
- Active installs
- 600+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 6 Dec 2025
- Added
- May 2009
- Requires WP
- 4.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.9.7
- Downloads
- 100,374
Our analysis
AI-assistedwp-Monalisa is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add and manage smiley icons in your posts, pages, and comments. It aims to provide a straightforward solution for smiley support, enabling you to maintain a separate directory for your smilies and convert them into image tags. The plugin also integrates with popular community platforms like BuddyPress, bbPress, and wpForo.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance their site's interactivity with smiley icons and offers features like activating or deactivating smilies for specific content. It includes a draggable meta-box for easy access while editing and supports various text editors.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users looking to enhance comments and posts with smiley icons.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows maintenance of smilies in a separate directory
- ✓Integrates with BuddyPress, bbPress, and wpForo
- ✓Enables conversion of smilies to image tags
- ✓Provides a draggable meta-box for easy access
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on advanced features or customisation options
Verdict
wp-Monalisa offers a simple solution for adding smiley support to your WordPress site, though details on advanced features are limited.
From the developer
tuxlog's own description of wp-Monalisa, lightly tidied.
wp-monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.
There are a lot plugins for smiley support out there and some of them are really useful.
Most of them don’t work out of the box and this is what wp-monalisa tries to achieve, giving you the ability to maintain your smilies and even turn them into img tags.
it’s easy and it smiles at you…what else do you want?
Features:
- maintain your smilies in a separate directory
- activate or deactivate smilies for posts or comments
- replace smilies with img tags
- extend or replace wordpress smiley replacement
- while edit posts or pages, pops-up in a draggable meta-box
- extends your comment form to give you visitors the freedom to smile 🙂
- support for fckeditor (tested with v3.3.1)
- fully integrated with BuddyPress, bbPress and wpForo
The video shows a short overview of what wp-monalisa can do for you.
Credits:
Thanks go to all who support this plugin, with hints and suggestions for improvment and specially to
- Michal Maciejewski, polish translation
- Denny from http://www.vau3.de for testing and giving input for the BuddyPress integration
- FJ Bakry, Camisto (https://camisto.com) for indonesian translation
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