[Closed] Translating site from Qtranslate to WPML

Hello,

Thank you, I am honestly stuck here.

On your staging the migration stops at about batch 22 and a 500 Error occurs in the console.

For some unexpected reason, I was unable to disable ACF and Toolset on your staging site. I installed the File Manager Plugin and renamed the folder for those plugins on the server and also renamed the mu-plugins folder (plugins run by WP Engine) to make sure that we test with nothing else but WPML, but the migration still gets stuck.

At this point, the only thing I can try to do now is take another copy of the site and migrate it to a virtual server in order to try to run the migration there and debug the issue once more.

Also, thank you for your cooperation on the sandbox, where I now imported your posts, but I can not start the import, as I keep getting asked to edit and resave the languages in qTranslate, which I have already done various times now.

Maybe you could have a look yourself and try to make the import run on the sandbox?

Best regards
Andreas

Hello,

My apologies for the delay in answering, as I do not work on Sundays and Mondays and I am also sorry if I might keep repeating myself here, but here are my findings:

I have today created a new localhost installation with WordPress and qTranslate X only.

Take note, that qTranslate X was not updated for more than 7 years:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/

This means that the plugin was only tested up to WordPress 4.5.30, while the current version is 6.3.2.

The latest PHP version that was released in the same month as the latest update of qTranslate X was PHP version 7.0.9.

This means that this plugin is very likely not fully compatible with PHP 7.2 or higher. The same counts to mySQL, which highest available version at this time was mySQL 5.7.14.

In my localhost install I am trying to use an almost similar setup, as your website does, with PHP 8.0.30 and using MySQL 8.0.16.

I installed qTranslate X using this source:
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When installing the plugin on this new test site I get the following fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: strpos(): Argument #1 ($haystack) must be of type string, array given in D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-content\plugins\qtranslate-x-master\admin\qtx_admin.php:782 Stack trace: #0 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-content\plugins\qtranslate-x-master\admin\qtx_admin.php(782): strpos(Array, '&', 0) #1 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(310): qtranxf_get_terms_args(Array, Array) #2 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\plugin.php(205): WP_Hook->apply_filters(Array, Array) #3 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-term-query.php(408): apply_filters('get_terms_args', Array, Array) #4 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-term-query.php(308): WP_Term_Query->get_terms() #5 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-tax-query.php(644): WP_Term_Query->query(Array) #6 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-tax-query.php(581): WP_Tax_Query->transform_query(Array, 'term_taxonomy_i...') #7 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-tax-query.php(395): WP_Tax_Query->clean_query(Array) #8 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-tax-query.php(325): WP_Tax_Query->get_sql_for_clause(Array, Array) #9 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-tax-query.php(275): WP_Tax_Query->get_sql_for_query(Array) #10 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-tax-query.php(251): WP_Tax_Query->get_sql_clauses() #11 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(2247): WP_Tax_Query->get_sql('wp_posts', 'ID') #12 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(3800): WP_Query->get_posts() #13 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(3932): WP_Query->query(Array) #14 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\block-template-utils.php(1002): WP_Query->__construct(Array) #15 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\blocks\template-part.php(232): get_block_templates(Array, 'wp_template_par...') #16 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\blocks\template-part.php(272): build_template_part_block_instance_variations() #17 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\blocks\template-part.php(285): build_template_part_block_variations() #18 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(310): register_block_core_template_part('') #19 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(334): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #20 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-includes\plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #21 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-settings.php(632): do_action('init') #22 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-config.php(104): require_once('D:\\Work\\Local S...') #23 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-load.php(50): require_once('D:\\Work\\Local S...') #24 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-admin\admin.php(34): require_once('D:\\Work\\Local S...') #25 D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-admin\plugins.php(10): require_once('D:\\Work\\Local S...') #26 {main} thrown in D:\Work\Local Sites\qtranslate\app\public\wp-content\plugins\qtranslate-x-master\admin\qtx_admin.php on line 782

This refers to the strpos()function in PHP, which is a function that handles strings, and since PHP 7.3 changed the way it works (only accepting data format "string") and the way in which qTranslateX is using this function will no longer work, unless you use a PHP version 7.2 or earlier.

Source:
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This shows very clearly that this plugin, which has not been updated since 2016, is not working as expected when using one of the latest versions of PHP.

I then downgraded PHP on my virtual server to version 7.3.5, which is the earliest PHP version that I have currently available and the error still showed up, which is kind of expected.

Sadly I have not any earlier version available on my localhost server, as prior versions for PHP are no longer supported.

The only difference with PHP 7.3 was, that I was able to use the backend, but the error still shows up.

Then, I installed ACF and the ACF addon for qTranslate and tried exporting your field groups from your staging site, but this gave me a fatal error and I can no longer export them.

Finally, I decided to try to import your complete database to my localhost install, which is
still running currently and might take quite a long time, as the database is more than 2GB big.

I am still working on this and will get back to you later about it.

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What I would suggest you do now, is to ask your hosting support team about creating a staging site on a server, that allows you to use PHP 7.2 or earlier to make sure that qTranslateX is running without errors.

If that would be possible, then please let me know.

Best regards
Andreas

Hello,

On your staging I do currently see the following posts:

English (2798) | French (2783) |

How did you achieve to obtain the translations?

Best regards
Andreas