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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 ago (2013), this was a significant advantage for a hosting service to limit the number of databases to one. However, qTranslate distinguishes language section by own tags in the text, so there is a risk of accidentally edit tags. If the tag is accidentally erased or if the same string in the text, it could cause display problems. In addition, some plug-ins cannot be used at the same time because they do not know that other plug-ins switch languages by inserting tags into the content. Thus, there are restrictions on the use of the plugin.

qTranslate no longer supported, Wordpress version up

The price of databases has dropped comparing to the 10 years ago. It is not unusual for an introductory web hosting service to have 10 databases available. And qTranslate is no longer supported in Wordpress 4.x. qTranslate plugin does not work well with the current 6.x version.

remove_qtrans.py

During the migration, we considered manually editing the exported xml file from WordPress.  However, due to the large number of articles and the fact that my site uses 3 languages, I decided to write a program to handle it: remove_qtrans.py. You can found here on github .

How to use remove_qtrans.py

To remove the German (de) part from a Wordpress export file (export.xml) and output (out.xml) file, use the following command. This is a python3 program.

   python3 remove_qtrans.py --language de --infile _export.xml --outfile out.xml

Tip: You can use your editor's replacezfunction to remove the last remaining language tags.

Conclusion

I have developed a program to remove specific language parts and language tags from qTranslate. License: the New BSD. I hope this may useful for someone. It is under the New BSD License, there is no warranties. 2023-9-15(Fri)


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