Drych Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Drych connects an English WordPress website to a clear English and Welsh workflow. Install the plugin, create a free Drych account or sign in, and follow the guided setup. No API keys, WordPress passwords or manual ZIP uploads are needed.
If a multilingual provider is not active, Drych links to WordPress’s standard Polylang installation and activation screens. Those actions remain under the administrator’s direct control. Once Polylang is active, Drych can configure English and Welsh, prepare linked private Welsh counterparts, and monitor new English pages and posts. Existing WPML sites can use their current English/Welsh language structure. Setup never publishes a new Welsh page.
An accessible language switch can be added automatically when both versions are public. Choose a floating corner or place it before or after page content, then configure its colours, shape, size and wording. Any valid background and text colours can be saved, and the switch can be disabled whenever a theme already provides one.
English content is split into stable, markup-preserving translation segments. Welsh wording is staged privately and can follow a review workflow or, with separate website-owner consent, publish automatically only after the complete current page is ready. A changed English source keeps the last approved Welsh page live while its replacement is prepared privately.
Every protected write is conditional, idempotent, read back immediately and recorded for safe recovery. A failed prerequisite, stale page, payment problem or quality check leaves Welsh work private and never blocks the English publication. Administrators can emergency-pause or disconnect Drych at any time.
After pairing, the administrator who approved the connection can also use a WordPress-native Drych workspace from its own icon in the left admin menu. The workspace opens by default on healthy sites and shows one page-level queue for new WordPress content, the automatic translation status, remaining translation allowance and returned wording; display controls live on a separate Settings tab, while setup and connection checks have their own attention-aware tab. New or changed English content tells Drych to refresh the queue straight away, while a scheduled catalogue check remains as a fallback. Eligible waiting pages are grouped into timed 15-minute dispatch windows, and the workspace shows a live countdown to the next send. The monthly translation allowance is measured only in words: there is no second cap on how many audited pages can be corrected while enough words remain. If complete waiting pages cannot fit the remaining allowance, the administrator can select them in WordPress, see the exact one-off price and open secure Stripe payment. Paid page revisions are sent immediately instead of waiting for the grouped-send window, while an unfinished or cancelled checkout keeps the selection visible and recoverable without duplicate sending or charging. More than one eligible package can remain with Clear at once, so new complete pages do not wait for an earlier package to return. Pages and Posts also gain a compact English/Cymraeg pair view: both titles sit beside each other, link directly to their editors and show which page belongs to the current row. WordPress is the source for new-content translation; a separate public-site audit lists other possible corrections for the customer to review and send. If that audit questions wording supplied through a WordPress translation job, the page remains attached to that original job for complimentary review instead of becoming a second chargeable correction. Optional correction-request changes and “mark fixed” actions are sent to Drych through a separate site-scoped workspace credential; billing and full-account tasks open through short-lived, one-use Drych sign-in links.
Search terms such as “Welsh bilingual site”, “Welsh website translation” and “Welshify your site” all describe the same guided Drych workflow. Supported multilingual providers are Polylang and WPML. Participating WordPress tables must use InnoDB for transactional safety.
External service
This plugin connects to the Drych service at https://drych.cymru, operated by Clear Translations Ltd. The service is required for Drych account matching, translation workflow, monitoring and controlled publication. An explicitly configured, visibly labelled sandbox installation may instead connect only to https://testing.drych.cymru for isolated test accounts, translations and Stripe test payments; production remains the default and arbitrary service addresses are not accepted.
No connection data is sent merely by installing or activating the plugin. When an administrator chooses to create an account or connect, the browser sends the site’s public URL and the Drych settings return URL to Drych. New users can register for Drych Free with that website address already filled in; existing users can sign in. After final approval, WordPress sends Drych the one-time pairing code, site URL, REST API URL, WordPress user ID, plugin version, safety-test result and a site-scoped workspace credential. Once connected, the workspace exchanges allowance totals, audit findings, basket changes, selected one-off WordPress payment pages, returned correction wording and implementation status with Drych. Drych calculates and locks the exact selected wording and price before a short-lived sign-in link opens Stripe checkout; card details are handled by Stripe and are not sent to WordPress. When monitored English content is published or updated, the plugin also sends its numeric WordPress content ID, the managed-catalogue revision, event type and event time so Drych can refresh that site’s authorised translation catalogue without waiting for the fallback check. On the explicitly allowlisted testing sandbox only, the workspace can also request deletion of unreturned test translation packages, restore their reserved allowance and pause automatic translation. Once the bilingual workflow is enabled, authorised source wording, Welsh translation segments and the metadata required to stage, verify, publish, read back and safely roll back that wording are also exchanged with the service.
Service information and terms: https://drych.cymru/wordpress-service
Privacy notice: https://drych.cymru/privacy
Security and data
Every protected resource request requires the paired WordPress administrator and edit permission for its exact target. Every write also requires that target post type’s publish capability, a strong If-Match value and a unique Drych operation key. The plugin locks authoritative post and locale rows, verifies the exact result, stores an idempotent receipt in the same database transaction and fails closed on ambiguity.
Operation receipts contain hashes and the protected response required for safe replay. Pending receipts, which can represent an uncertain outcome, are retained until an administrator resolves them. Completed and rejected receipts are retained for 180 days and then removed in bounded daily batches. Deactivation pauses publication immediately and stops that maintenance schedule; it does not erase evidence.
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