My emoticons like :-) and :P not converted to images after trying to check the user_smiles option in writing settings page I found that the checkbox option does not exist on the page. https://i.stack.imgur.com/gouaX.jpg NOTE: I found that the option exists on the database and its value is 1. NOTE: I deleting everything and install the WordPress again without changing any settings or themes or plugins and the problem not fixed.

Perhaps Wordpress has changed with 4.7. My site has the global option use_smilies enabled. The text... :D ...is replaced with... <img draggable="false" class="emoji" alt="" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/svg/1f600.svg"> But I want to substitute my own smilies so I have the following code from the Codex, which, previously did work. But now it does not substitute my image. The default image is, instead, displayed. add_filter( 'smilies_src', 'my_custom_smilies_src', 10, 3 ); function my_custom_smilies_src($img_src, $img, $siteurl){ return $siteurl.'/wp-content/images/smilies/'.$img; } It appears that the filter is not …