I'm using qTranslate v2.5.28 to allow two languages on my website. For that purpose, I need to use expressions like:

[:en]by %author%, on %date('F jS, Y')%[:pt]por %author%, em %date('j \d\e F \d\e Y')%

where [:en] and [:pt] indicate the start of the respective language version for a specific text.

This used to work in previous versions of Atahualpa but not now with 3.7.3 !! After I make my changes in Atahualpa Theme Options like the one above and I save them I will see only:

by %author%, on %date('F jS, Y')%

which means that Atahualpa cleans it up, removing the qTranslate tags !!! Can anyone help????

that's odd because I just entered you settings and it saves fine. try disablinmg all other plugins except qtranslate and see what happens - I wonder if you have a plugin that looks at shortcodes

Thanks for your reply, juggledad.

Put ODD on that !! The worst part is: this code cleaning up is random, meaning, you might save Atahualpa Options, the shortcodes remain there but they might disappear at any time !!!!

Removing plugins it's quite hard !! I have 16 plugins installed !! Any clue about which type of plugins might be interfering?

There hasn't been a significant change in the code that saves teh options. What version were you using?

as for disabling the plugins, it is easy to disable all the plugins, though it might not make your site look good

if you can get a handle on a series of steps that cause the issue to happen, I can look at it in more detail, but if it is random it is hard to determine or even recreate.

what version of Atahualpa were you on?
What version of WP?

Yes, with "hard" I mean what I would feel watching my website if I'd deactivate the plugins

I'm using Atahualpa 3.7.3, WordPress 3.3.1 and qTranslate 2.5.28 !!

I already started deactivating plugins one by one and I have started with those handling square brackets "[" and "]". I will post the result here if I succeed

Actual status:

1 - I deactivated plugins one by one. No improvement !!
2 - I finally deactivated ALL plugins but qTranslate. No improvement !!
3 - Meanwhile, I've found out that shortcodes are removed after I navigate through my website (read in pages, read in posts, etc)

Additional information: I have exactly the same problem on a different website running on Wordpress 3.1.1, Atahualpa 3.6.4 and qTranslate 2.5.19 !!!! Any clues?