Introducing Quicktags (qT 2.1 and higher)

[Qian Qin]

Typing XML language tags is quite annoying and takes up quite some time (and need a lot of space) and because there are a lot of fields supported by qT but don't have a nice editor, I introduce Quicktags to you. They look like this:

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[:en]


The differences between them and the normal language tags are:

• [important] Quicktags are for manual additions, normal tags (<!--:en--><!--:-->) will be used automatically by the plugin to ensure no-tag-visibility if Plugins fails for some reason. You should stick with normal tags whenever possible!
• [bad] Quicktags will be visible once qT is disabled (breaks layouts, look weird)
• [good] Quicktags don't need to be closed
• [good] Quicktags are shorter and will leave more space for the more important content in limited fields
• [good] Quicktags don't get removed by Wordpress cleaning functions, so they will work at more places (widget title!)
• [good] Quicktags are faster to type.

Here is an example of a complete multilingual string using Quicktags:

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[:en]English[:de]Deutsch

[miqrogroove]

Sticky Thread plz

[miqrogroove]

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but qT doesn't seem to tolerate empty quicktags. I have to add a space at least.

For example, this doesn't work correctly:

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[:en][:de][:sv][:zh]text

This does work correctly:

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[:en] [:de] [:sv] [:zh]text

[Qian Qin]

empty quicktags will be simply ignored.

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[:en][:de][:sv][:zh]text

should be handled just like

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[:zh]text

[StephaneGallay]

Hello!

I've been working on a test, Wordpress-based site and tried to use Quicktags to translate blog title, as per your suggestion, but I can't get it to work properly. Adding Quicktags to the title, I get all four languages + quicktags appearing at the same time.

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<div id="title">
<h1>
[:en]The Lutheran World Federation
[:de]Lutherischer Weltbund
[:fr]Fédération luthérienne mondiale
[:es]Federacíon luterana mundial<br />
&ndash; A Communion of Churches </h1>
</div>


Would it be possible to have some example of code using Quicktags?

[Qian Qin]

qT does not parse HTML, so you will have to put the text through qT:

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<?php _e('[:en]The Lutheran World Federation
[:de]Lutherischer Weltbund
[:fr]Fédération luthérienne mondiale
[:es]Federacíon luterana mundial'); ?>

[Wyn James]

I'm well down the road to modifying the Simple:Press forum plugin to work multilingually in conjunction with qTranslate. One outstanding issue is that post titles, forum names and descriptions will only accept full tags, whereas the post message areas will only accept quicktags. Why is this? It would be good if at least one of these tags work in both situations - then it might be feasible to create custom buttons to apply specific language tags to highlighted content. However, I don't want to have two buttons for every language (one to add quicktags to post content and the other to add full tags to post and forum titles).

[Qian Qin]

qT has two modes:
- it can either support both at the same time (full and quick)
- or only full

So adding full tags should always work. if it somehow seems not to work, it is probably because the < > get transformed to html entities.

[alarch]

Thanks a lot - you were exactly right. I have discovered that one workable solution (which I've tested to ensure that it works) for this scenario is to use the html_entity_decode() function to ensure that the "<" and ">" are converted back.

[StephaneGallay]

Thanks! I actually managed to work around that one in a different way, but your answer helped me for another issue.