How to make title tag translatable?

I’ve searched all the files in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo folder. There is 131 matches of apply_filters in 19 files. Should I now go and look for a specific filter?

Hopefully I’m on the right track. I really appreciate your help.

Yes, this is a good test for the start, but you need to find a place of their code where exactly the wrong title string goes out (normally with echo, printf or similar) and then see if that string is passed through some apply_filters or do_action before that. In case you never heard about those functions yet, you may read https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/apply_filters and related articles, in case you wish to get familiar with this stuff.

This can be very complex actually, if you never done such thing before, it may be challenging. And it could be that there is no applicable filter, in which case we will have to talk to “WordPress SEO” folks to put one in. But they would expect us to tell them exactly what we want to do, I mean by the line of code. If you do not find the place in the code where it outputs the wrong string for the title by tomorrow, then I will try to do it later in the week.

Okay. Now I understand what I need to do. I’ll do my best and let you know about my findings.

BTW, have you seen plugin Yoast SEO fix for qTranslate?

I looked into their code, it actually enables just one filter, maybe exactly the one which you are looking for? Please, try it.

I didn’t know about this plugin. I’ve just installed it but the problem remains.

Hi @m4j4, I may be able to work on this tomorrow, did you get any progress? Some tips for me to take into account? Are you still interested in resolving it?

Hi, @john, I have found that if I put:

if ( is_page() ) {
    return $title;
}

at the very beginning of the function called title (line 323 of wordpress-seo/frontend/class-frontend.php) than my Pages get a nice <title> again.

A nice means translated so:

Map - Jane Roe

when on English and

Landkarte - Jane Roe

when on Deutsch site.

Is this of any help?

And yes, I’m still interested in resolving it.

Yes, it points to a right file. Is $title already translated at that point or does it get translated later? I need to be able to reproduce your case, which I did not try yet. It just occured to me that the author of Yoast SEO fix for qTranslate may be able to improve his plugin with your case much quicker than anybody else, since he apparently already did a lot of investigation.

Could you ask him first, and if he does not reply, then we will have no choice but to get engaged on our own. Could you please, submit a message on his support forum and cite a link to this thread, so that you would not have explain all over again.

Okay, I’ve posted a question also on WordPress SEO by Yoast support forum.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/title-tag-displays-all-the-languages?replies=1#post-6574685

This will probably not help, since that community does not use q. It seems like the author of “Yoast SEO fix for qTranslate” does not support his plugin anymore, so he will not help either. I might start looking into it today.

@m4j4: There is a workaraound solution found in this topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/both-english-and-german-titles-showing-up-in-the-page-title, does it help you?

@m4j4: Now, I cannot reproduce the described behavior, it shows title correctly for me. Please, figure out the minimum configuration, which I could reproduce with publicly available theme and plugins, or send me admin login to qtranslateteam at gma il d co m for a test-copy of your site, where I could do modifications without interfering with you.

… just answering one of your questions above:

Your question: Is $title already translated at that point or does it get translated later?

Answer: Yes it is already translated when it gets into the function called title.