You can create a custom field, give it a value of lang=’ur’ and check for it in your header.php. Add the custom field from the Custom Fields box. Let’s call it page_lang. Give it a value of lang=’ur’. In header.php: <?php global $post; $lang = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘page_lang’, true); ?> <body <?php body_class();?> <?php echo $lang;?>> … Read more
This can be done via cookies. We set it with Javascript, reload the page and display different menus in PHP using its value. First, print the script at the site footer (see comments). Note: would be better to enqueue this together with your theme scripts. add_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘wpse_77220_language_cookie’ ); /** * Cookie script based on … Read more
I don’t know how qTraslate works, but you can pass filters to Widget Logic , you basically duplicate each widget, one for each language. I have used this technique with WPML to show widgets in separate languages that can sometimes be difficult ( such as when they make direct DB queries).
Create a subdomain for each language, set the main site to English. Then use the plugin Multilingual Press to chain these subdomains together. It has an option to redirect the visitor to the correct single page too if it is translated on another subdomain (not sure if that is part of the free version). Subdomains … Read more
Less complicated is to use the plugin’s Quicktags and use the Gettext functions to print the content in the site. [:en]English[:pt]Português Quicktags docs Another option is to do just like qTranslate interface does with the post titles: Create one custom field for each language in your meta box: qTrans documentation is not consolidated, so analyzing … Read more
When naming your po and mo files in a theme, you need to only make use of the language code to name these files. Any other convention will not work For example, my blog is in Afrikaans and the localization language code is af_AF. My mo and po files are named accordingly, ie, af_AF.po and … Read more
There are a couple of methods that this can be done without the overhead of plugins. Method 1 The first method involves hooking to the load_textdomain_mofile filter. (This must go into a separate plugin) function wpse31785_change_mofile( $mofile, $domain ) { if ( $domain == ‘default’ and get_current_user() == ‘riccardo’ ) return substr($mofile, 0, -8).’it_IT.mo’; return … Read more
qTranslate has an option to hide content which is not available in the specified language. Check the plugin options for “Hide Untranslated Content.”
If you’re comfortable with the use of WordPress and plugins you should take a look at WPML plugin at http://wpml.org/ It’s working quite well, even for non-programming users.
Use a default Multisite installation and enhance this with the plugin MLP – Multilingual Press. You find a lot of information in this post, a better english as my. You find the idea and discussion about this solid solution, benefits in this answer from my side to the same question in WPSE.