qTranslate 2 for Wordpress 2.7

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permalinks are not working at all

you have to manually update the qtranslate.php to fix this - I had the same problem, that as soon as I activated the plugin, everything was giving a 404 error, and I couldn't access the control panel in order to change any settings. Go into the plugins page, and edit qTranslate - then set $q_config['hide_untranslated'] to false. I assumed that because I didn't have any translations yet, or even any content, every page was being hidden. So you need to unhide untranslated pages.

[Squick]

The qtranslate looks like its coming along very well. It will look great when its finally finished. I previewed the development version Dec 15 2008. The new feature of switching the dashboard language is excellent. I have English and spanish people posting on my site.

Problems that i saw were the languages configuration page couldn't be accessed (..../wp-admin/qtranslate-config). You said you were working on that so thats no problem.

Put es.mo in the language folder and manually configured the language in qtranslate.php. Once i did that the new post page came up with all the correct fields for title and content of the new language.

The next problem i encountered is that when i publish the page, only the default language would come up and the other language didn't show up. the error was "The requested URL ..../es/ was not found on this server"

Hope that helps. can't wait to use the new qT2 when its all done

[steve81]

I'm using Wordpress 2.7 with the QT2 Beta.

Switching Permalinks Settings to "Default" and back to "Day and name" fixed some problems I had.

I'm wondering if there will be an option to use different domain names (one for each language), not just a subdomain. I got one domain for each language, for now I redirect http://www.ripefruit.ca to http://www.fruitmur.ca/en/ .

Keep up the great work!

[klu2]

ok got the permalinks to work again, apache configuration wasn't correct.

now it looks much better again

[Guest]

What about using a single post for each language and a translation-link between them instead of a single post with all the languages inside?
Something like (based on Microformats like code):

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<a class="translation url" lang="en_US" href="http://isotype.org/2008/09/10/creative_commons_short_movies/">English</a>
<a class="translation url" lang="it_IT" href="http://isotype.org/2008/09/10/corti_creative_commons/">Italiano</a>

or

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<a class="translation url" lang="en_US" href="http://isotype.org/2008/09/10/corti_creative_commons">English</a>
<a class="translation url" lang="it_IT" href="http://isotype.org/it/2008/09/10/corti_creative_commons/">Italiano</a>

This feature will allow to post comments on the same language as the article is.. So there wont be a huge amount of multilingual comments under one article..

Yes!
And I think seperate posts for each language linked togehther would be the cleanest design possible. It would also improve the comaptibility of existing and widespread SEO plugins, which mostly get confused by the language seperation within one post. Search Engines could target each language's post much better that way.

[guest]

Hi!
I've just updated my blogs to WP 2.7 few days ago. Now, I would like to install qTranslate into them because I would like to manage my blogs with different languages.

I've tried to install qTranslate and, although I can do it, my WP is complaining about it has not been tested yet. In addition, I've seen there is a new version of qTranslate, qTranslate2, ready to be released.

Ok. Two questions. Is it safe to install qTranslate in WP 2.7? and, then, when qTranslate2 will be released, upgrade the pluggin? Or is better to wait until qTranslate2 be released?

Thanks!
Alfons.

[Qian Qin]

it would be best to wait until WP 2.7.1 is released. qT2 should be available by that time too. WP 2.7 is very buggy and I strongly recommend everyone to stick with 2.6.5 until the first bugfix release is finished by the WP-devs.

[steve81]

[quote="Guest"]Yes!
And I think seperate posts for each language linked togehther would be the cleanest design possible. It would also improve the comaptibility of existing and widespread SEO plugins, which mostly get confused by the language seperation within one post. Search Engines could target each language's post much better that way.[/quote]

What if some people want to see comments in all languages? Many readers are multilingual too.

[lorenzodetomasi]

If qT2 will create a different post for each language (?), what about using categories to specify the language of the post/page? Only a suggestion… I don't know if it can solve problems.
Categories > Languages > Italian (it_IT)

Thanks.

[Qian Qin]

qT2 won't create different posts for each language. Separating the posts would be useful on database level, but would cause usability issues. The reason I developed qT is to make multilingual content management easily usable. There are other plugins which focus more on the structure. I try to use the best structure possible while keeping the usability, which is causing me quite some headache recently, as some features are quite complicated to use/manage (multilingual permalinks, ...).

SEO is important, but I think a lot of web pages are "over optimized" for it. You write your articles for your readers and not for Google. So Usability comes first.

And thanks to "Bruno" from Umbertide, Italy! I received your present today! I was really surprised by it! I think I'll get the WP 2.7 compatible version online soon.

A new nightly build is ready with the configuration interface almost finished. will be waiting for feedback on the new features now