Comments on: qTranslate and multilingual META tags

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:00:33 +0000

It's difficult for me to tell what's going on without seeing your source code, but this sounds like to me like a conflict between your other SEO plugin and qTranslate META. As stated on the plugin homepage, I have not tested the plugin with any other SEO plugin and do not intend to. I can't solve your problem directly, but perhaps trying the following may give you some clues:

Look in your database to see if the META information is saved correctly. Look at the table wp_postmeta, where the meta_key column begins with qtrans_meta:. This is kindof low-level but will help establish if the meta information itself has become corrupted.
Create a local duplicate of the site (and database), completely uninstall the other SEO plugin, use a default theme with no customisations, and see what happens then.

The qtranslate META plugin itself is not that complicated, and you will probably be able to figure out what it's doing by looking at the qtranslate-meta.php. Debugging Wordpress loop stuff can be a hassle because you never know where hooks are being registered, and in which order they're firing. There are Wordpress plugins for helping with this, but in general it means getting very in depth and truly understanding what's going on. It's difficult to provide a quick solution in cases like these.

By: efffetti

efffetti — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:23:04 +0000

Hi, I am having two problesm here.
1) Titles in different languages are not in the source code of no pages, but Descriptions are
2) Descriptions are in the source code twice, both called meta name=”description” content=”": the fist occurrence of the meta description is that of the main language of the site, the second is that of the language of the page. I need to mainly solve the title issue, but even the second would be appreciated.
Here is what I have on my WP site:
Site based on twenty eleven child (the child is just changed in the CSS for background colours and fonts)
Static Pages as main
YOAST SEO, set to rewrite title, and title taxonomy is %%title%% (but this should not affect anything because it is rewritten)
(I also tried to disable the rewrite, but a lot of duplications in one sinngle meta title occurrs so I have all the languages one after the other, + the title of the site. Also tried WITHOUT the rewrite and WITHOUT the %%title%% taxonomy, nothing changed, and also emptying all the SEO TITLES fields… in the latter case the result was all the page titles in all the languages one after the other)
QTranslate Meta with settings to wp_title in the hook
General settings title of the blog st up with [:en] xxxxxxx [:ru] yyyyyyy etc and that part works in the body but NOT IN THE META
I tried all the solutions suggested in the thread but none worked.
Please help me
Thanks

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:55:17 +0000

It depends on why you want meta tags in the first place, and that’s not up to me to decide for you. If meta tags are not important to you, then yes you should remove this plugin.

By: Eugen

Eugen — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:40:20 +0000

I do not understand. Why do I need your plugin?
Can I remove the plugin? It can not hurt to index blog?

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:20:02 +0000

We can’t control what Google does Eugen! It is almost agreed that META tags are useless when it comes to SEO anyway; since they are so easily abused, many say that the major search engines to do not even pay attention to them.

By: Eugen

Eugen — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:54:35 +0000

Google does not index the text in the Description and Keywords. Why?
Text in Russian. But it is obvious that he is different.
http://savepic.ru/3191415.jpg
http://savepic.ru/3192439.jpg

By: patricio

patricio — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:44:20 +0000

perfect! thanks a lot!!! that did the job with just one line of code

By: John

John — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:20:48 +0000

Hi Patricio, Yes this is a very good point. I think I know the solution: place the following line in your qtranslate-meta.php file, in the beginning of the hook_head function (line 163): if (!(is_single() || is_page())) return; Let me know if this works correctly, and I will push it as an update to the plugin.

By: patricio

patricio — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:25:37 +0000

hi there!
great plugin! i have one small problem – maybe i oversee something, but i get the meta tags of the first post also in the category and tag pages which leads to double content. is there an easy way to avoid this (if … remove_action)?
thanks for your work and help!

By: Ruslan

Ruslan — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:11:39 +0000

Only “For users of qTranslate META 0.9.1 and older, to make the plugin work on a “static” homepage you should change the title hook used from single_post_title to wp_title (in qtranslate-meta.php, line 29).” helped me on version 1.0.0!!!!!!!!