I made this simply to hide the “Smileys” link underneath each textarea on a Control Panel publish page. You can disable Emoticons in the admin, but I don’t think there is any native way to hide this link without an extension. There are a couple other threads that relate to this: Remove “Smileys” text from Publish screen and Disable Glossary and Smileys in the publish tab?

The download is now available at GitHub through its designated page over at masugadesign.com: http://www.masugadesign.com/the-lab/scripts/hide-smileys/

Fabo! Thanks so much for making this. Hard to have a ‘corporate’ looking control panel with smileys.

Since you’re an extension pro now, could it be extended (ha) to remove check spelling and glossary also? leaving only formatting?

AJP - 11 July 2007 07:29 AM

Since you’re an extension pro now, could it be extended (ha) to remove check spelling and glossary also? leaving only formatting?

I have a dev version working that has settings allowing you to pick any or all of the three to display or not. This works on Publish pages with only one field that has these links. The only issue is on Publish pages where there is more than one field that has these links. I need to figure out the best way to keep the field id’s in there so when the links are set to show, the links still actually work!

This would be MUCH easier if each of these links had an ID like their containing div does. I could probably use the DOM somehow to find first child (that’s a link?) of the “lightlinks” div and remove it…or something like that.

Back to paying work right now, though.