Multilingual META tags

[jstar198]

I needed to have multilingual keywords & descriptions on my site, so I created a plugins which uses qTranslate to do exactly this.
Check it out here, and let me know what you think.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate-meta/

John

[jacksmith]

I do not think it's tough work for you to do multilingual META tags.

[duniaaqar]

i'm using version 2.8.6 with qtranslate to have the site in arabic as well as english. Do i need the qtranslate meta to have the actual arabic content referenced on arabic searches? I have been informed that my arabic pages are being seen an english by crawlers???!!!

[magicsun]

What about the homepage?

I don't have a static homepage, so there's no "home" page created ... Where do I fill in that information for the english homepage?

[idesignstudio]

Did anyone tried to use qTranslate with WPMU DEV SEO plugin or Yoast and the top of the WP/WPMU SEO plugins?
They have some similarities as well as differences and are powerful for WP/WPMU SEO.

If there are others interested implementing qTranslate with them, let me know and we can work together on it.

Cheers,
Milena

[zenger]

I registered only to help you. I know this is not the best option but it is the least I've managed to do. So to use multilingual Yoast Seo meta tags you should do the following steps.
edit the following file.

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your-web-site\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-seo\frontend\class-frontend.php


ad the top of the file in the class after the row

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class WPSEO_Frontend { ~ line 3

and add the following line

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function tt($var) {
   return __($var);
}

this will bring the __("") function inside the Wordpress Seo class.
Next at line ~ 210 where is

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return esc_html( strip_tags( stripslashes($title  ) ) );

change to this

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return esc_html( strip_tags( stripslashes( $this->tt( $title ) ) ) );

now you can make multilingual titles.
for keywords at line ~427 where is

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   echo "\t<meta name='keywords' content='".esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $metakey ) ) )."'/>\n";

change to this

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   echo "\t<meta name='keywords' content='".esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $this->tt($metakey) ) ) )."'/>\n";

for description at line ~474 wher is

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return $metadesc;

change to

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return $this->tt($metadesc);

now inside the Yoast Seo plugin where is title you can use [:en]Hello World[:ru]Привет Мир! ..
I think that the Yoast Seo is pretty cool I hope this will get to google and will help people

[Bryn]

Hi Zenger,
Thanks for your suggestion! Unfortunately, the Yoast code changed, and now at line 212 you can find this:

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return esc_html( strip_tags( stripslashes( apply_filters( 'wpseo_title', $title ) ) ) );

The other bits of code are unchanged. Can you please let us know how can we update the mod you suggested, so to allow us to use Yoast's latest version?

Thanks!

[solala]

Just to answer your question, it would look like this:

original:

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return esc_html( strip_tags( stripslashes( apply_filters( 'wpseo_title', $title ) ) ) );

edited:

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return esc_html( strip_tags( stripslashes( $this->tt( apply_filters( 'wpseo_title', $title ) ) ) ) );

However, it doesn't really work with the latest version of WordPress SEO by Yoast (1.0.3).

The solution which works with WordPress SEO by Yoast and WP 3.2.1 is to make a little hack (Yoast) and use the qTranslate META plugin.

What worked for me: Take the original <...>/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/frontend/class-frontend.php and
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echo "<meta name='keywords' content='".esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $this->tt($metakey) ) ) )."'/>\n";

and replace by

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/*echo "<meta name='keywords' content='".esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $this->tt($metakey) ) ) )."'/>\n"*/;

search for:

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echo "<meta name='description' content='".esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $metadesc ) ) )."'/>\n";

and replace by

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/*echo "<meta name='description' content='".esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $metadesc ) ) )."'/>\n"*/;

IMPORTANT: in both cases, leave the line end with ";" not commented out!!!

Finally, when you edit your article/page and you use the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin, do not type anything in the field "SEO Title:"
(You may only use this field "SEO Title" temporarely in order to see the "Snipplet Preview". Once it fits your requirement, cut the text and paste it in the field "Browser title" of qTranslate META.)
For your multilingual META (title, keywords, description), use qTranslate META instead.

Since it took me a lot of time to figure out how it works, you may consider to
me a beer

[GhostMaster]

2 SEO plugins at the same time? Are you sure?

[BusinessStream]

2 SEO plugins at the same time? Are you sure?

I am quite hesitant.