So far, I cannot find any plugin for smilies that works, or at least works like it should, for smilies. The one I am using, Custom Smilies, ends up completely at the bottom of the Write Post/Page. Have tried about 5 others, no dice.
But, what you can do with Custom Smilies is to right click, copy, then paste in post. Not the optimal solution, but, it is what it is.
You can also just replace smilies, and remember what the code is. See this page about doing that.
Most automatic Meta Tag generator plugins are hosed, too. I was using autometa. Not anymore. Personally, I find it annoying to manually put in tags, and I want them embedded in the source code, rather then at the bottom of a post. Might try that cloud tags stuff, so it would be in the sidebar.
WordPress has a list of what seems to be working and what is not working. I’ve mentioned before that Bad Behavior is on the list, but, mine works fine. It is not the newest version, but 2.0.13
