Removing qTranslate-X / qTranslate-XT

Thinking it might be useful for some, I share my experience after successfully removing qTranslate-X/XT from a website and leaving only one single language.

Website had qTranslate since 2012, which was then migrated to qTranslate-X, then to qTranslate-XT. It had tags in both formats <!–:en–>/<!–:–> and [:en][:] which would appear if the plugin gets deactivated (in page/post content and title).

I tried :

1. The split database function in the settings of the plugin (mentioned in other posts). Though it did split the database, it didn’t work in my case. The resulting database had ‘clean’ data + 2 languages (so a page would show 3 times the content). Not sure what went wrong, it’s hard to understand what the function is doing.
2. The plugin qTranslate X Cleanup and WPML Import – didn’t work for this operation, as some other report.
3. What worked was the method described on this page. Make sure to run each query only once or it breaks the database. Because I had both formats of tags, I had to run the steps twice. First time as described in the post ; the second time, replace
   [:en] by <!--:en-->
[: by <!--:
+5 by +10 (because the old tags are longer in terms of character count)

Step 1 and 2 are a waste of time dealing with tools that don’t explicitly detail what they are doing and/or plainly don’t work. Going straight to step 3 saves a lot of time.
Hope it helps.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by kalshyre.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by kalshyre.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by kalshyre.