Goodbye qtranslate, welcome to mqtranslate

Qtranslate have not evolved for around 1 year, which is a compatibility problem with latest versions of WordPress. I prevented myself to update to wordpress 4.x until an hypothetic update of qtranslate. Nothing to gain here, qtranslate author is no more supporting it, it’s going to stay at version 2.5.39.

Good news, several actions have started and new extensions, based on this old qtranslate, appeared : qtranslate plus, qtranslate-x, mqtranslate, … I myself have selected mqtranslate plugin which have more regular updates. This evolution would seem to be complicated and risky. In the contrary it has been simple and without any problem.

You can find information about mqtranslate on this web page : http://www.xhaleera.com/wordpress/mqtranslate/

Migration is done in 7 steps :

1. Installation of mqtranslate plugin using WordPress Plugins menu

   Take care not to activate mqtranslate at this step

2. Deactivation of qtranslate plugin with same menu
3. Then activate mqtranslate
4. Import qtranslate plugin parameters into mqtranslate. For that :

   – access to configuration page of mqtranslate– display advanced parameters and use option to migrate qtranslate configuration to mqtranslate

   – Confirm parameters change

   At this moment, language parameters you were using in qtranslate should be identical into mqtranslate

5. Reconfigure default language of wordpress if necessary, using configuration page of mqtranslate
6. Include language selector widget from mqtranslate at same place than the one you were using from qtranslate
7. After a full check of your website, you can now imagine to de-install qtranslate plugin, but it sounds a good idea to keep it installed but deactivated

Here it is, transfer is done. Website behaviour shouldn’t have changed although visual appearance

After it is done, it’s now possible to update wordpress to V4.0 or V4.1, thanks to mqtranslate being already compatible to those versions  🙂