When writing comments around our blog, there are many different ways you can type to get your message across better. Putting in one or two smilies to express how you feel or changing the text style to make it stand out are some ways of communication you can use on all WordPress.com blogs!
Just follow these instructions exactly and you’ll be good to go! But please don’t spam with “test” comments – those are considered spam and will be deleted.
WordPress Smilies
You may have seen smilies (also called emoticons) around the PHB and maybe other places. On WordPress.com blogs like this one, when you type a certain combination of keys, they’ll be converted into smilies! Here’s a chart (left side = smilie; right side = what to type to create said smilie):
🙂 | :) |
😉 | ;) |
😀 | :D |
XD | XD |
>:D |
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😦 | :( |
😥 | :'( |
😐 | :| |
:/ |
|
😮 | :o |
😛 | :P |
😡 | >:( |
o_O |
|
😎 | 8-) |
^^' |
|
❤ | <3 |
😕 | :? |
:mrgreen: |
|
😳 | :oops: |
🙄 | :roll: |
💡 | :idea: |
❗ | :!: |
❓ | :?: |
🐻 | :bear: |
⭐ | :star: |
➡ |
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🐱 |
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Make sure to type a space before and after your smilie text. This prevents the smilie being accidentally included in the text around it.
Text Styles
Changing the style of your text can be a great way to grab attention, as long as it’s not overused.
Typing in Bold
“Bold” is when you make the characters in your text thicker, like this. Bold text is used to make important phrases stand out, which is helpful for readers quickly scanning through for key points. Here’s how to type in bold:
- Type <b> at the beginning.
- Next, enter your text (whatever words you want to bold).
- When you’re done typing, add </b> to finish it off.
Please note that the PHB staff may use bold text to reply to comments, so please don’t use it for anything longer than a sentence.
Typing in Italics
When text is slightly slanted to the right side, like this, it’s called italics. They can be used to emphasize an important word in a sentence, for example: I love Poptropica. Titles of books, movies, etc. are also often italicized. Here’s how to type using italics:
- Type <i> at the beginning.
- Next, enter your text (whatever words you want to italicize).
- When you’re done typing your message, add </i> to finish it off.
Remember not to overuse them (as in, don’t use them for long passages) or it’ll be hard to read.
Typing with Underline
Underlined text is when words have a line underneath them, like this. However, it’s actually best not to underline text on the Internet because people may mistake it for a link. Bolding or italicizing text is a more web-friendly option. Here’s how to underline your text:
- Type <u> at the beginning.
- Next, enter your text (whatever words you want to underline).
- When you’re done typing, add </u> to finish it off.
Note: Underlining may be used as an alternative for bolding important headings or italicizing book titles.
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smilies are “just the way they are”! 😀 😛
😀 thats cool
me me
me
REALLY cool!
Really REALLY cool!
Typing in bold is fun 😀
wow so …..
really? cool.
Eh, let’s try it out…
I am 🙂
I made a cake, I am 😀
I ate it all 😦
The crumbs flew around and made shapes 😮
They all Dropped back on my plate 😕
My Brother Slapped me 😡
I stuck my tongue at him 😛
HE SLAPPED ME :I
He gave me money 😉
😆
😳
:cry::roll
……………..
Cool poem Shinykid157.
Gracias, err, Thank you
I love it!!! 🙂
Hi this is cool!!! It’s BOLD. What’ya doin’
Oh my the wind is blowing the letters AHHHH!
Wait, I dont have a brother, oh, yeah i do. Hi sis 🙂 (QS is my sis BTW)
What is QS?
Quckstar.
This is cool! I owe you one.
I ❤ This BLOG!!!!!!!!1
Me too!Actually,I have only been commenting since November,but I have been reading this since ST’s name was Hijuyo 😎 😀 😉 🙂
Spotted Wolf is my name. 😉
I like to invent many things 💡
I like smiling
oh no it is a tornado ❗
Help help help!
Oh good it is o’er
I hope you will come to my party in multiverse. AXX89
I’m a girl. 😉
My login failed. 😦
My dog drank from the toilet! 😡
Help! My house is on fire! 😯
RTV Contestant Hip Hop is sooooo cool! 😎
I LOVE PHB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody call 911, I fell down! 😥
Oops, that was a mistake. 😳
Do you like my poem, Cool Bite?
Cool poem, Break Dance.
But Spotted Wolf, I used my brother’s poptropican and there was no rooms matching my entry! 😦 😥
I know. I left. Soon before you tried.
I have one!
I’m a boy 🙂
I won a game 😀
I failed a math test 😦
Ugh… That’s disgusting! 😡
HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!! THERE’S A PIT BULL IN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!! 😯
I fell 😥
I got that wrong 😳
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 😆
If anyone wants to friend me, it’s boysdroolgirlsrule3.
I’m Cuddly Knuckle 🙂
My dog is so funny 😀
I don’t have membership 😦
Kissing-Ewwwwwwwww! 😡
It’s an earthquake! 😯
I got hurt 😥
Uh-oh, Spagetti-Os! 😳
Oh, my god! 😆
Everyone costomized me 😎
WHAT?! ❓
AUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❗
If anyone wants to friend me, my username is hesnothappy.
: : Why does nobody every use this one?
They call me Raymond. 🙂
I miss 2012. 😦
Someone hit me! 😡
Nya-nya-nya-nya-nya! 😛
I fell down. 😥
I tried on some shades. 😎
*groan* This test is so hard! 😕
Yay! I passed it! 😀
Ummm, yeah. 🙄
Sure. 😉
Why do you want someone to hit you?Yes,I also miss 2012,Raymond.
My real name is Meg 🙂
I failed English one time 😦
Ewww! That’s disgusting! 😡
I got detention 😥
My best friend Wilbur (Cuddly Knuckle) is funny! 😆
Everyone costomized my shirt 😎
Uhhhhhhh… 😕
I’m stalking you guys! 😉
If you want to add me I’m gangsterlover2.
Hey look,there’s Joe Cool(aka Snoopy) 8)
He works at a grocery store 😀
He keeps up with the latest fabs
He wears glasses 😮
Next to his house is an ➡
He rarely gets a good 💡
When he passes,everybody 😆
So do you like my poem?Lol,I’m 😈 🙄
Anyway,Merry Christmas! 🙂
I’m a boy 🙂
My friend moved away 😦
I failed my test 😡
I fell 😥
PHB IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!
My cat scratched me! 👿
Merry Christmas! 😀
Why doesn’t the 8) smiley work anymore? 😥
It does! Look- 😎
Hey,it works! 😀 😎
I’m a boy, I am 🙂
When I leave, everybody is 😦
When I lie to my mom, she is 😡
When I costomize my favorite Reality TV contestant. I am 😎
When I say bad words, everybody 😆
When I fall down and get hurt, I am 😥
When I pass my test, I am
Now do you like my poem?
Yes. 😉
Thanks.
You’re welcome. 😉
The cool shades don’t work for me. Let me try again: 😎
Never mind, it works! 8)
meow meow
awesome!
Woof woof woof !
Hey Happy Horse, this meow sounds like my cat!
Just so you know,you can’t underline words any more. Watch: Hello!
I want to find out where to get the cool girl hair because i hate that plain hair.
There are plenty of hairstyles you can customize from on Poptropica. You might want to be more specific, but if you’d like to customize my Poptropican’s hair, add hi.Juyo to your friends list. Also, check out the PHB’s Friend Finder for more usernames to add! 🙂
Um…how do you interlink words?
Since I can’t demonstrate how to hyperlink text in the comments because it will hyperlink, you should research how to use the a tag here.
I am 🙂
My friend moved away 😦
My cat just scratched me! 😡
I love PHB! 😀
I got hurt 😥
I stuck my toungue out 😛
I wore my cap 😎
Happy Valentine’s day!
Poptropica is fun! 😀
This is me!
I read the Poptropica Creator’s Blog!
Does it work?
I love smilies!
😐 Somehow Im really frustrated because my internet is so SLOW … PLUS Im playing Poptropica.. 😛 This blog is soo AWESOME!!
I love smilies!
i love talking in bold
😀 Thanks for the help on how to do the emoticons!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This one 🙂 is what I use the most. U can tell it might be me if you see it! 🙂
I love the rolling eyes face!See? 🙄 🙄
It worked,thanks PHB!!!!
My name is Little Heart who’s got 35 medals with 2466 friends and is a member
Little Heart is the best person
Thanks Slanted Fish,I owe you one
😮 Cool. Thanks. I was wondering how other people did this stuff. This is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 😆 ❗
I think my favorite smiley is 😀
Wow, thnx! this helped alot!!
🙂 i love smilies.
and by the way how you do this is with a thing called HTML.
it is amazing.
player what?
👿 I love this smiley!
😎
Thanks for the info! ^^
I love the ones that move! I could watch them all day…….
:0
Cool:)
I don’t know if someone has already said this, but evil and twisted are different. Evil has a frown and twisted has a smile. : )
Cool! 🙂
How do you PHB guys put those words with a slash through them?
Slanted Fish: Put the word ‘strike’ between the brackets.
Why is this: called Mr Green?!?!
Please some one awser me?!?!
Slanted Fish: Because it’s a green face? Haha, we didn’t name it, so who knows.
Thanks fishy 😳
You updated the smilies? Awesome! 😀
Yep I said that too on HP’s latest post XD
Cool. Mwahahahahaaaaa!
The smiles changed! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I know 😦
I know. thats sad 😥 😦
>:)
I agree FL how do you do that?
I’m a Fantage blogger (Fantage is another virtual world) and Fantage bloggers use smilies 24/7. 😛 😎
The smilies are cool! See the bear? 🐻
awesome!!! plz do more 😀
if you want to add me, type kirby6709 you will see what i look like 😀
er…let me try
I am 🙂
I am silly 😉 ( I think this one is hard… 😐 )
I made cake and I am so 😀
I ate the entire cake 😦
The crumbs are flying
The crumbs landed on my plate 😕
My brother slapped me 😡
I put my tongue at him 😛
he gave me money
never more that one smiley in a single commet
thanks!
superb
awesome:-)
my poptropican’s little sister lost her teddy. can you find it? 🐻
I have a question, and didn’t know where to put it, can we still make colored texts?
Oh wait- nevermind!
fishy, how can you do those in posts and i can’t. i can only do smilies but no underlining or bolding or italicizing for me. only in comments i can.
Slanted Fish: Use the tools in the visual editor when writing posts to bold/underline/italicize/etc. Also, the PHB isn’t the place for these questions; just look it up. 😛
BEST BLOG EVER!!!!
I also noticed the Logo Change for PHB
awesome page thx for all the guides
Uh… how do you make words blue so when people click on the blue words they find themselves in a different website?
when you comment the box that says website can be what the blue words send you 2 such as your blog or poptropica itself hope I could help
This is awesome!!!
Thanks for the helpful tips Fishy 🙂
Cool 🐻
the 🐻 is weirder than
Thanks for the tips 🙂 this is just like making a html website (my teacher told me that)
Thanks for the tips 😀
Gonna try both italics and bold in the same sentence, hope this works
Yasss it worked ^_^
Ya!:)
What happened to the smileys,they look….different,I could remember the 🙄 😆 😥 and 😳 used to move.
its sad ;(
aweome!!!!!!!! thx 🙂 😎 ❤
Cool! 🙂 I was wondering, like, how they did that. 😛 Thanks! 🙂 🐻 🙂
Oh, and fishey? 🐻 🙂 😛 I love this blog. Thanks for creating this! 🙂 😉 🐻 🙂 😀 X)
i want to hear about dummy friends
I miss the old smilies : (
You forgot =^-^=, which does 🐱 .
slantedfish: Thanks for the tip! Added. 🐱
It kinda looks like a cat… or wait, is it one? 😛 🐱
Thanks So Much
You Help Me In Almost Everything!
Thanks So Much
You Help Me In Almost Everything!
A__A
(= ^W^ =)
U U
found this on the web. so cute!
this is so cool love it!
How do you make the devils?
Hey, the smileys changed again! 😀
I haven’t been using them for a long time… my comment would go awaiting moderation…
… and it’s not awaiting moderation anymore. 🙂
…or it would be… 😛
XD
Ugh,I hate the new ones.
Now they’re just straight up emoji clones.
I love emoticons, and all the typing tricks! 🐻 ⭐
emojis are so cool !!! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
its nice 🙂
wow
I love this blog
🙄
its so 😎 !!!!
bold,italicts,and underlined!