How to Use Emoji smileys in WordPress 4.2

At midnight on April 24, 2015 in our GMT+1 time zone, WordPress has officially released version 4.2 with some interesting small changes, including the ability to support the famous Emoji smiley face. sound on mobile devices, like this? ☺️?

How to use Emoji

WordPress does not integrate the insert smiley button into the editor, but it only supports receiving and displaying smileys when you insert from typings.

For Windows 8

You right click on the bar Taskbar -> select Toolbar and tick Touch Keyboard.

You will then see a virtual keyboard frame below, click and select the smiley icon.

For Mac OSX

Go to the menu Edit->Special Characters -> select smileys here.

For Windows 7

If you use Windows 7, it’s a bit too much for you, you have to go to the website http://getemoji.com/ and copy the smileys manually and paste it into the editing content.

In addition, you can also insert Emoji symbols from the phone keyboard.

Some other functions in WordPress 4.2

Quick plugin installation & activation

A small change in plugin installation is that you can now install plugins faster without having to reload the page every time you install, but you still have to do the activation step manually at Plugins -> Installed Plugins.

Change theme in Customize

Now the WordPress Customize function is more powerful as you can switch between themes directly in there to preview the theme and make changes based on the options in it. This is very beneficial for Customize app themes as much as free themes.

Improved PressThis

Previously the PressThis feature (share a quick link to the blog) in the section Tools -> Available Tools It seems that few people are interested because its availability is not high. But now, you may have more reasons to use it because it will have the feature to automatically place featured images, get a description and you can choose tags and categories to post in.

There are also some other small changes that you can see more here. However, now you can upgrade to the new version WordPress 4.2 “Powell” without fear of any conflicts because I see its core as just adding and improving, not changing an important function at all. .