wp-includes/formatting.php:3437Converts one smiley code to the icon graphic file equivalent.
$matchesarraystringOne hook fires while translate_smiley() runs, in this order:
Filters the Smiley image URL before it's used in the image element.
function translate_smiley( $matches ) { global $wpsmiliestrans; if ( 0 === count( $matches ) ) { return ''; } $smiley = trim( reset( $matches ) ); $img = $wpsmiliestrans[ $smiley ]; $matches = array(); $ext = preg_match( '/\.([^.]+)$/', $img, $matches ) ? strtolower( $matches[1] ) : false; $image_exts = array( 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'jpe', 'gif', 'png', 'webp', 'avif' ); // Don't convert smilies that aren't images - they're probably emoji. if ( ! in_array( $ext, $image_exts, true ) ) { return $img; } /** * Filters the Smiley image URL before it's used in the image element. * * @since 2.9.0 * * @param string $smiley_url URL for the smiley image. * @param string $img Filename for the smiley image. * @param string $site_url Site URL, as returned by site_url(). */ $src_url = apply_filters( 'smilies_src', includes_url( "images/smilies/$img" ), $img, site_url() ); return sprintf( '<img src="%s" alt="%s" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />', esc_url( $src_url ), esc_attr( $smiley ) );}Introduced in 2.8.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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