Does anybody know what happened to the section in Wordpress went to:

Settings > Writing > Formating: Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display

I remember it used to be there regardless of whatever theme I was using. I can't find an answer on any forums either.

Is there a script or something i can paste into functions.php to make it show up again?

Does anybody know what happened to the section in Wordpress went to:

Settings > Writing > Formating: Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display

I remember it used to be there regardless of whatever theme I was using. I can't find an answer on any forums either.

Is there a script or something i can paste into functions.php to make it show up again?

• emoji

• I'm on the latest version of WP and I see that option in writing, it's the first checkbox, it hasn't moved – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented May 23, 2018 at 22:19
• yeah I have the latest version too and that option is missing... And the theme I'm using is my own theme.... I can't find a solution to this anywhere.... – Liquid_Shane_O Commented May 23, 2018 at 22:28

1 Answer 1

I'm answering this old question because I didn't find anything better.

WordPress 5.9 wp-admin\options.php line 165 checks database version (when WP was originally installed) against a number to show or not those options.

if ( get_site_option( 'initial_db_version' ) < 32453 ) {
$allowed_options['writing'][] = 'use_smilies';
$allowed_options['writing'][] = 'use_balanceTags';
}

Not actually a solution, but maybe it's useful to understand why those options are missing, my initial guess is that those are not needed when the database already support emojis natively (utf8mb4).