FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - Look here for Quick Help

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Click on one of the following questions to see the answer:

• I’ve found a bug!
• Is my language supported or included?
• Does qTranslate change my database?
• Where do I get .mo files?
• Where do I find the .mo file for English
• When using English, some texts show up with language tags, why?
• How do I make the qTranslate Widget pretty?
• All my custom Template Dates don’t work anymore, what’s wrong?
• How do I add multilingual content without changing the .mo files?
• What are language tags or Quicktags?
• I don’t use Widgets, how can I let qTranslate generated the Language Selector/Switcher?
• Can qTranslate translate all the other text fields like Blog Title?
• Clicking on the Title/Home-Link resets selected language.
• Dates show up as time when qTranslate is activated.
• How to install .mo files?
• I am getting "Language is already enabled or invalid!"
• I can't login anymore after switching the language!

[Qian Qin]

Great! Help me and others by posting it in the Support Forum. Remember to post when the bug occurs or what you did to make it appear. Don’t forget to post what exactly is broken. I'll try to fix it as fast as I can.

[Qian Qin]

Yes, all languages are supported and more and more get included. If yours is not included, you can easily add it through the "Languages" Configuration Page under Settings. If you are a native speaker of that language, consider sending me all details so I can add it for others.

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This depends on the version you are using. qTranslate 2.x does not modify your database structure. qTranslate 1.x does change your database. When you access the Configuration page, it will check how long category names can be. Wordpress’ default length is 55 characters, which is too short too handle multilingual content. Thats why qTranslate will change it to support up to 255 characters. It won’t alter the database if you already changed it to a different type like text to support even longer texts.

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.mo files can be found at the WordPress Localization Repository. If you are looking a .mo file for English, here is one.

[Qian Qin]

Exactly here.

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You probably don't have the correct .mo files. qTranslate 2.0 downloads automatically from the Wordpress Localisation Repository. But if you have some exotic language, you will need to learn to create one by yourself. See the Wordpress guide "Translating WordPress" for more information.

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The qTranslate Widget creates a list, which can be formatted to be vertical or horizontal. The Code generated looks as follows (don't copy paste to your website, it won't work, use the widget instead):

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<ul class="qtrans_language_chooser">
<li class="active"><a href="/qtranslate/faq/" class="qtrans_flag qtrans_flag_en"><span>English</span></a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="/de/qtranslate/faq/" class="qtrans_flag qtrans_flag_de"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li>
</ul>

So to remove bullet points, add this CSS line (to your theme's style.css):

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.qtrans_language_chooser { list-style-type:none }

A Horizontal List can be made by adding this CSS line:

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.qtrans_language_chooser li { float:left; margin-right:3px }

A border around the flags can be added with:

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.qtrans_flag { border:1px solid #b6b6b6 }

The best way if to learn CSS and customize it to match your needs.

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qTranslate will make the_date, the_time, etc. to ignore the format because it uses strftime instead of date. So to prevent date formats being passed to strftime, qTranslate overwrites them. But you can still use custom dates. Simply use one of the following functions (using a strftime format):

Returns the creation date and/or time of the post

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qtrans_formatPostDateTime($format)

Returns the posting date and/or time of the comment

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qtrans_formatCommentDateTime($format)

Returns the last modification date and/or time of the post

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qtrans_formatPostModifiedDateTime($format)

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It’s simple, just use language tags within gettext:

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<?php _e("<!--:en-->english text<!--:--><!--:de-->german text<!--:-->"); ?>

The line above will output “english text” if the visitor selected English page and “german text” if the visitor selected German.