Qtranslate plus support for Wordpress SEO by Yoast

Question

Im using Qtranlate plus (https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-xp/) and i also use Wordpress seo by Yoast but the meta title and description fields cant be translated. Anyone have a fix for that or knows a plugin that fixes the issue?

Answer 1

This Problem exists since qTranslate wasn't plus. There is a fix, from Yoast: http://kb.yoast.com/article/52-wordpress-seo-qtranslate

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function qtranslate_filter( $text ) {
  return __( $text );
}

add_filter( 'wpseo_title', 'qtranslate_filter', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'wpseo_metadesc', 'qtranslate_filter', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'wpseo_metakey', 'qtranslate_filter', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'wpseo_opengraph_title', 'qtranslate_filter', 10, 1 );

This wasn't enough for me... i traced the $text and saw that the language syntax was broken. It wasn't

<!--:de-->, it was <!-:de->.

So i added a replacement for that directly in the qtranslate_filter($..).

function qtranslate_filter( $text ) {
    $fixedOpenTag = str_replace("<!-:", "<!--:", $text);
    $fixedCloseTag = str_replace("->", "-->", $fixedOpenTag);
    return __($fixedCloseTag);
}

This works for frontend output. I looked in the sourcecode of yoast but haven't fixed it by now...