you have to open the plugins itself and change the settings. there's no adminstration via the backoffice (yet?). it's a little bit sub-optimal, but... well...

look in plugins/renderers/_smilies.renderer-php and change

var $apply_when = 'always';

to

var $apply_when = 'never';

see also http://b2evolution.net/man/2004/06/16/plugins_on_off_howto

btw: we had this topic more than once. the search-function does work, really. using it saves us time for the new or more complicated questions :D

Hey! Ok, wow thanks 4 the quick reply, thats great.

And for the record i did search... A search for "administer plugins" gets the following top hits.

Cant administer plugins in admin (my post)
Requirements for a Band website
Site Security - Hiding Directories
Rename scripts to avoid spam
User Blogs?
Can I use b2evo for 1000 or more users?
Block Spam comments
CPanel cron to grab b2evo antispam updates... etc.

Tried some diffrent searches... But perhaps my imagination is to lousy to come up with good search terms. :) Thanks again tho. I?d been browsing around 4 a while!

the trick to the search is to check the second option, "search for all terms", without doing that nearly every post that contains either word "administer" or "plugins" will be returned. :)

doing it with the second option checked returns one thread, yours :)

Haha! Ok, great I'll try that in the future.
Have fun!