Prevent pre-path changes on link URLs

@rjpedrosa

qTranslate X is not designed for that.

Read also Browser re-direction based on language

Yes, I know! But any way I can modify the code to achieve that? E.g. change the function that alters the permalink? Just give me some lights where that happens. It is a question of replacing the language placeholder on the change permalink’s function by “en”.
Tried to find it on the code but too complex.

I am also trying to achieve something like this.
I thought I could solve this by adding ?setlang=no to the menu links , that I don’t want to be translated.
(See How can I prevent URL of a custom menu item from being converted)

But it is not working for me at all.
I even get URLs like https://localhost/impressum/?setlang=no&lang=en

I disabled all plugins and switched to standard wordpress themes (twentyfourteen, twentyfifteen), but it still doesn’t work.

But as Gunu says it is not designed for that, I might have to find a different plugin.

I ended up writing this ugly javascript code to force no translation for all links except if I set the attribute rel="no-convert". Technically it forces all the links to be in the EN language by replacing the current language by “en” in the url. I only set it up for chinese, french and german because those are the ones I am using.

// Force EN language
var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a'),
len = links.length;

while(len--) {
	if(links[len].rel !== "no-convert") {
                links[len].href = links[len].href.replace('/fr/','/en/');
		links[len].href = links[len].href.replace('/zh/','/en/');
		links[len].href = links[len].href.replace('/de/','/en/');
		if((links[len].href.slice(-3) === "/fr") || (links[len].href.slice(-3) === "/de") || (links[len].href.slice(-3) === "/zh")) {
		        links[len].href = links[len].href.slice(0,-3) + "/en";
		}
	}
}

@peek

?setlang=no indeed does not work as I expected. I will consult John about it.

Thanks for reporting.

@gunu

thanks, please keep me posted.

@rjedrosa

thanks for the script.
i would suggest using “do-translate” as an attribute if you want to translate.
“no-convert” really confused me, it kind of translates to “no-translate” in my brain ??