Here’s a list of smilies and emoticons that the WordPress blogging engine will recognize on our blogs.
I had to make a graphic so the characters would show as they need to be typed in to make the smilie or emoticon.
Big Thank you to Magsx2 for giving me a link to the complete list posted at Wordpess Codex:
Using Smilies
Thank you Mags! 
For a information and troubleshooting for using these on WordPress blogs visit WordPress Codex site Using Smilies
updated to include link and updated graphic of smilies.
I hope these help. 
I tried the laugh out loud emoticon the other day and ended up with a smile and a bracket. Let me try again here.
). I really like that little fellow, so I hope it works!
Hi Orples
If you’re wanting to use the animated laugh-out-loud like this
You need to type- colon lol colon
I had to spell it out because if I use the actual colons it’ll give the animation again
You can look on the first line in the right column of my illustration in my post for a reference.
I hope that helps.
Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Thanks for the info, I’ve always wondered.
You’re welcome Tina
I’m happy to share.
Welcome to my tutorial blog.
It’s so good to see you here.
Thanks so much.
I read you had this blog in your first sentence of your other post on the other blog and I just clicked like a crazy woman right over here! Thank you so much for these little smilie hints, you have no idea how bad I wanted to use these and didn’t know how!
Hi Pix
You’re welcome. I’m happy to share. I’m glad I could help.
I seem to getting quite a collection of sites and blogs. lol
Welcome to my tutorial blog.
It’s so good to see you here.
Thanks so much.
Well, I’ve learned something new today – a year after you posted this! I never knew that you could type these into a post and they would become the smiley….? Thanks EC!
Hi Dianna,
I only started this blog in December. Since I only a few posts on it, I haven’t really promoted it or made a big-doins about.
I like using smilies and am so glad we can use a few of them for our blogs.
Welcome to my tutorial blog.
It’s so good to see you here.
Thanks so much.
Thanks! I love using these; they express what you can’t always say.
You’re very Welcome Charlotte
I love smilies and made this post for that very reason.
Welcome to my tutorial blog.
It’s so good to see you here.
Thanks so much.
Thank you for sharing these!
I’ve always shied away from wordpress.org support (or help) forums/sites etc., thinking the info might not apply for wordpress.com hosted blogs.
In this case, I guess I was wrong!
Hey Smallhousebiggarden
Welcome to my tutorial blog.
I think you’re right, there’s not a lot of the coding and such that we can use for the free version, but thankfully we can use the smileys.
Thanks for visiting and leaving me a fun comment.
I hope you’ll visit again as I get more stuff posted here over time.
E.C.
I like exclamation marks, so am attracted to the exclamation smilie
Hi Margie
lol
Welcome to my tutorial blog. It’s great to see you.
I like the exclamation smiley too. My favorite is
Thanks for visiting and leaving me a fun comment.
I hope you’ll visit again soon.
E.C.