migration from qtranslate to mqtranslate – description

@ Uobet

I wrote this to another user maybe it will help you so long

Disable qtranslate then enable mqtranslate go to the settings page and import your qtranslate settings to mqtranslate.

yoururl.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=mqtranslate#advanced_settings

Under mqtranslate Settings:
Open: Advanced Settings
Find: Settings Migration
Select: Import settings from qTranslate

Save options, done

Wow!!! The migration was very easy and everything works.

In my case this is not self-evident because my site doesn’t only have something like 100 pages, a member area, a event module (events made easy) but also some cases where I use php code like
`if(is_user_logged_in()){
if(qtrans_getlanguage() == ‘it’){
echo ‘<a href=”https://&#8230;..`

Here is my detailed description how to migrate from qtranslate to mqtranlsate in English (and German). I hope it may be useful to other people who want to migrate from qtranslate to mqtranslate:

First create a backup (Erstelle zuerst ein Backup deiner Seite).

1) install the plugin mqtranslate (Installiere das Plugin mqtranslate)
2) disable the plugin qtranslate (Das Plugin qtranslate deaktivieren)
3) enable mqtranslate (mqtranslate aktivieren)
4) go to settings – languages (Einstellungen – languages ausw?hlen)
5) Open “Advance Settings” by clicking on “Show” (Gehe zu “Advanced Settings” und klicke auf “Show” um den Bereich zu ?ffnen)
6) Go to “Settings Migration” and select “Import Settings from qTranslate” (Gehe zu “Settings Migration” und w?hle “Import Settings from qTranslate”)
7) Save changes (Die Schaltfl?che “Save changes” anklicken um abzuspeichern.
8) Stay where you are and go down to the area “Languages”. There you have to choose your default language, enable your languages and disable the languages you don’t use (in my case I had to disable English and Chinese, I enabled German as default language and I enabled Italian as the second language).
Save changes
Verlasse Konfigurationsbereich von mqtranslate noch nicht, sondern scrolle nach unten zum Bereich “Languages”. Dort deaktiviere bitte die Sprachen, welche dich nicht interessieren und aktiviere die für dich relevanten Sprachen (in meinem Fall musste ich English und Chinesisch deaktivieren, Deutsch aktivieren und als Standardsprache setzen sowie Italienisch als zweite Sprache aktivieren).
Speichere mittels Anklicken der Schaltfl?che “Save changes”
9) No go to Design – Widgets and select the widget “language chooser of mqtranslate”. Place it where ever you want to put it (in my case in the header of the theme).
(Nun w?hle Design – Widgets und w?hle das Widget “language chooser of mqtranslate” und platziere es an der für dich passenden Stelle (in meinem Fall im Kopf des Theme).

That’s it (Das war’s).

Thank you very much!

S

Hi,
I do my own translations so I add titles and text in three languages. Will the mtranslate work for me you think?
I don’t know much about html so I was wondering if you could help.
Thanks so much!

Quick question, if you deactivate the other languages on qtranslate and just leave English as the default language, will the previous titles of posts and text in other languages be gone too automatically or will I have to remove them? If they are gone after that, that would solve my problem.
Thanks

Hi mariaonpoint,

I am of course not an expert for mqtranlsate but I will try to answer:

Qestion 1: Yes, mqtranlsate is going to work for you as well.

Question 2:
If you enable only English and make it your default language, it won’t work if you hade three languages enabled and pages/news in three languages so far.

As much as I understand you’ve installed qtranlsate at present. Now you would like to migrate from qtranlate to mqtranslate. At present you’ve activated tree languages and – i suppose – English is the default language of the three.
In this case you have to configure mqtranslate exactly as you had configured qtranlsate before (please see my description).
I give you an example.
Let’s say you have three languages, Englisch (default language), German and Italian.
In this case you should configure mqtranslate exactly as you already had configured qtranslate so far:
a) enable English as your default language
b) enable Germane
c) enable Italian
d) disable other languages, in my case I had to disable Chinese
You can check if everything is correctly configured by going to the top of the page, where your three languages should be listed, with English as the default language.

I wish you good luck of the migration!

S

Hi Uobet,

thanks for the migration description. It works with german (default language) and english (second) without problems.

Danke,

Jacox

Hello! I have big problems with Nextgen Gallery using both plugins – qtranslatte and myqtranslate. Qtranslate doesn’t translate images captions and myqtranslate even doesn’t see gallery in the post – only in the post with default language. Any ideas?

This worked for me – qtranslate is forever giving problems. I would recommend doing this.

anunja,
You may want to start a new thread for issues with mqTranslate & NextGEN Gallery.
This one is already marked as resolved.

Thank you for your work.
Finally working

A lot of thanks… you save my day

Hi, would you first upgrade WordPress and do then the switch to mqtranslate, or first do the switch and then upgrade WordPress? Thank you so much.

You can upgrade either way, but I recommend switching to mqTranslate first, so you can check everything works as expected with the plugin before upgrading your whole WordPress database.

Thank you so much!

I’d suggest a couple of extra steps:
Before (around where you do the backup) make notes of some settings you’re going to need afterwards:
– Do you hide language indicator for main language, or not? (by default, mqtranslate hides it, and you may want to change this setting afterwards)
– What URL format do you use?
– In what widget areas do you use the language choice widget? (And do you show text, flags, or both?)

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During:
After you import the settings from qtranslate, have a quick look at the other settings of mqtranslate to check that things are ok with you.

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And after:
– The qtranslate language chooser will be gone. You now need to visit your widget settings and add the mqtranslate language chooser widget to the relevant widget areas, recreating possible widget header etc.

And one special thing I noted:
mqtranslate modifies the language indication to the current language for any link you’re using that points to any specific language. In almost all cases, that’s perfect. BUT: In addition to the language choice widget, I’ve been using pointers to the start page of all languages in the main menu. And suddenly all these different menu items point at the start page in the current language. As a quick-and-dirty workaround, I created “shortened” links to these pages with bitly.com, and those aren’t touched by mqtranslate. ??