How to solve a PHP problem to increase user experience ?

[Tintanus]

Hi all, I am having a peculiar PHP problem that  is affecting the user experience of the site and thus, the SEO.

The site is www.atlantiksurf.com and as you can see I use the QTranslate Plugin to manage the 3 different languages:

1. www.atlantiksurf.com (Spanish)
2. www.atlantiksurf.com/en
3. www.atlantiksurf.com/de

If you enter the german version: http://www.atlantiksurf.com/de/ , and you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will notice there are a couple of posts that have (Español) in their Titles. This means that this particular post is written in Spanish and should only appear in the Spanish version of the site.

Every single post is published on the three versions even when they are language orientated. The result is that when you press that specific Spanish title on the German version, you get nothing but this:

http://www.atlantiksurf.com/de/aritz-aranburu-tendra-que-estar-un-mes-sin-competir/

Because obviously there is nothing there.

If I go to the wordpress admin panel and search for the post manually, I can solve the problem by erasing all the default code of the different language versions that should not appear. But this is only a manual and non practical solution.

The problem, I think, might be in the PHP orders that the Wordpress Theme is receiving from somewhere.

I come to all of you SEomoz users as my last chance, because I've been months in discussions with Qtranslate users and php amateurs that cannot solve the issue.

I know that this question isn't strictly about SEO, but in a way it is, because it must be affecting the way that Google look at us.

Please, some help or orientation would be highly appreciated.

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[Tintanus]

Ok thanks a lot ! Cheers !

[SSRMarketing]

I'm not spotting it right away.  The problem is I would need to know what the plug-in is doing. . .and I'm not the best guy to ask those kinds of questions.  I haven't written in PHP/MySQL in about 8 years so I'm a bit out of it.

If you go to http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate you should be able to post for help there.

[Tintanus]

Do you see any errors or can you localize the mistaken PHP function in this code?

if ( $postImg['showImage'] ) { ?>
                                   

endwhile;
                    else :
                        echo '

'.__('There are no featured posts selected to display in this area (yet).',THEMENAME).'

';
                    endif;

//Reset Query
                    wp_reset_query();
                    ?>

} // end if( featuredContentActive != '')
                ?>

// Home Page Blog Posts
                if (get_theme_var('homePostsActive') !== '') { ?>

global $firstPage;
                    $firstPage = true;

if ($paged > 1) {
                        // filter for offset and proper paging
                        add_filter('post_limits', 'my_post_limit');
                        // modify paging (to work with offset for home page)
                        $paged = $paged-1;
                        $firstPage = false;
                    }

[Tintanus]

Thank you very much for your answer, it gave me some clues I will investigate.

[SSRMarketing]

I can diagnose where a search for the problem should begin, but not so much the specifics.  My guess is the issue is in the plug-in.

WordPress is designed to read constantly from a database and it's reading something that looks like %TITLE%.  Now I've never experimented with QTranslate, but my assumption is they are adding additional database entries for the various languages and then each post, in their respective language, is supposed to pull from it's own database.

It could be something as simple as a pointer to the database that is still using the Spanish version instead of making the switch the plugin is supposed to accomplish.

Again, QTranslate, who knows their own code, should be able to diagnose something like this very easy.  I'm sorry to hear they haven't so far.  Your solution is going to be either getting them to fix it or hiring someone who can edit PHP and MySQL (which usually go together anyway).