qtranslate slug bugfixing

Some of my customers need their website to be multilingual. For these cases, i like to use the plugin qtranslate. As awesome as it is, it is lacking the support of multilingual slugs for seo-friendly permalinks.

But now i found a plugin that solves this problem: enter qtranslate slugs. It adds the much needed possibility to give e.g. the english version of a page or post a different slug than the german version.

Still, there were two problems that bugged me:

• The alternate language versions of the page are still inserted in the header by qtranslate, not knowing about the new slug versions and by that wrong
• The searching only works in the default language. If you try to use the search feature in a different language, you see the front page. (Maybe this is only true with certain settings. I use a static front page and the ‚directory mode‘ of qtranslate -> domain.com/lang-code/

To solve this problem, i tweaked the plugin a tiny bit and added a function to it.
Carlos, if you read this, maybe you could implement these changes in the next update? Thanks 😉

Change #1:

In the function ‚filter_request‘ (qtranslate-slug.php line 772) insert at the start, directly after the global vars, the following two lines:

if(isset($query['s'])){
return array('s' => $query['s']);
}

Change #2:

Add the following code at the end of the plugin file:

UPDATE: Google needs now all of the languages, so i deleted the if-clause.


remove_action('wp_head','qtrans_header');
add_action('wp_head','qtranslate_slug_header_extended');
function qtranslate_slug_header_extended(){
global $qtranslate_slug;
global $q_config;
if(is_404()) return;
foreach($q_config['enabled_languages'] as $language) {
echo '<link hreflang="'.$language.'" href="'.$qtranslate_slug->get_current_url($language).'" rel="alternate" />'."\n";
}


I hope these changes can help someone who has the same problem as me 😉

CU, Kuchen und Kakao