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A program removing qTranslate language section

Overview This is a program for migrating from a Wordpress with qTranslate to Wordpress multi-site. It removes the language-specific contents and tags attached by qTranslate plugin. Keywords: qTranslate, qTranslate-X, multi-site, multi-language, Wordpress Introduction Ten years ago from now (abound 2013), it is common that the cheapest web hosting service had 0 SQL databases, and even the next level service with database had up to 2 SQL databases. Therefore, if you want to use Wordpress in multiple languages, qTranslate multilingual plug-ins https://qtranslatexteam.wordpress.com/ was a common solution to reduce the number of database use. How does the qTranslate plugin work? The qTranslate plugin puts special tags ([:ja], [:], etc.) in the text. The plugin will retrieve the specific language text based on the tag. Advantages and disadvantage of the qTranslate plugin The biggest advantage of the qTranslate plugin is that it needs only one database even if it is multilingual. Ten years a