zTranslate and qTranslate slug

The author of this plugin changed the function names, which was unnecessary. It breaks all the plugins that rely on qtranslate functions, including qtranslate-slug.

The author of zTranslate simply followed WP policy, which requires to have all functions names to be different across whole WP. I am in communication with both qtranslate slug and ztranslate and I believe we will make slugs work soon enough under qTranslate-X (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/qtranslate-x/), which will replaces zTranslate soon as well. Please, follow topic https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/slugs-question for further updates.

Sorry John, i wasn’t aware of that policy. Let’s work together to fix these issues.

Well, but policies are not made for themselves. And in this special case this policy makes more trouble than it prevents.

But finally making this kind of decision is always a double-edged sword.

LG Hani

@hibr: I agree, but WP folks do not have time to go through all our little details, they simply enforce their policy. I did try to convince them with a couple-page long letter, but they replied with one line: “you still need to rename them” ??

If you think longer, you will find that it actually makes sense, because, otherwise if a user tries to activate a conflicting plugin, then it fails with a developer targeted message like “… method already declared …” and the majority of simple users have no idea what it means. They simply decide that your plugin is broken and forget it forever.

However, if(function_exists()) can actually help, and I believe we are to employ that for our purpose.

BTW, I am in communication with zTranslate author and we decided to merge zTranslate and qTranslate-X. Further development will continue in joint effort under qTranslate-X. Please, continue updates on this topic under -X thread titled “SLugs question”: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/slugs-question