
Some forum admins use just their own custom smileys. They don't use at all the stock XF categories. But in order to see their own custom categories, this option (Setup->Options->Messages->Show emoji in smilie menu ) had to be checked:
And if you don't have any custom categories, you will see there only the search bar. And even the search bar you can remove from there (this add-on has a setting for that in the admin area), since you don't have too many smileys, it is not really necessary, so then it might look like this:

Some forum admins use many kinds of flashy, animated, extra oversized images as smileys. And for some users, to see all the time in the text editor these bulky flashy images might be irritating. So now the admin has the option to move "Recently used" from the Smileys Bar, to the smileys menu. And keep in the Smileys Bar only static smileys. Or the admin can let the user to decide whether he wants to move the "Recently used" down or not. This is how it looks in admin area:
This is how it looks when recently used are moved down to the smileys menu (also notice that only custom categories are there without the XF stock emoji categories):


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