Title: Faster Smilies
Author: johanee
Published: <strong>ജനുവരി 16, 2009</strong>
Last modified: ജനുവരി 16, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Faster Smilies

 By [johanee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johanee/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/faster-smilies.zip)

 * [Details](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/faster-smilies/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/faster-smilies/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/faster-smilies/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/faster-smilies/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/faster-smilies/)

## Description

On posts and pages with comments the most timeconsuming part in page creation is
translating the smilies to images!

This has now been fixed in WordPress 2.8-bleeding-edge, but if you are not using
that (and in production you probably shouldn’t, yet!), this plugin gives you the
speedup anyway.

It replace smilies_init with a new one that constructs a more efficient regular 
expression, resulting in 10 ggr faster handling of smilies replacement.

Note: it uses the ‘e’ modifier to preg_replace to avoid patching any core files.
Not all hosts allow this.

### Performance

A page with 25 comments on an otherwise empty WordPress 2.7 got created on average
28% faster!

Profile of filters on 2.6.5 without plugin on a page with 403 comments:

    ```
        Total: 7.052s, Filters/Actions: 5.856s (83%), Db: 0.033s (0.5%)
        1. convert_smilies (calls: 403, total time: 3.911s (55.5%))
        ...
    ```

Profile with plugin:

    ```
        Total: 3.439s, Filters/Actions: 2.174s (63.2%), Db: 0.036s (1%)
        ...
        4. convert_smilies (calls: 403, total time: 0.357s (10.4%))
        ...
    ```

More than 50% faster!

## Installation

 1. Download and extract plugin files to a folder in your wp-content/plugin directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress admin interface
 3. Enjoy

## FAQ

  My host does not allow the ‘e’ modifier to preg_replace()! What do I do?

Wait for 2.8, or if you really want to you can apply the patch from https://trac.
wordpress.org/ticket/6464

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Faster Smilies” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ johanee ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johanee/)

[Translate “Faster Smilies” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/faster-smilies)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/faster-smilies/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/faster-smilies/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/faster-smilies/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/faster-smilies/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **18 വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  വേർഡ്പ്രസ്സ് പതിപ്പ് ** 2.5 അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ അതിലും ഉയര്‍ന്നത് **
 *  Tested up to **2.7**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/faster-smilies/)
 * Tag
 * [performance](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/faster-smilies/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ johanee ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johanee/)

## Support

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