Drych

Drych connects an English WordPress website to a clear English and Welsh workflow. Drych Ltd owns and licenses the Drych software. Clear Translations Ltd is the current Drych operator and provides the customer service. 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. Guided setup selects one standard accessible language-switch preset without asking for styling or template decisions. It stays hidden until a matched Welsh page is public and follows the visitor's current language. Later, Settings can change its placement, colours, shape, size and wording, or disable it when the theme already provides a switch. 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. During guided setup the administrator explicitly chooses publication timing. Publishing English immediately is selected by default; an optional equal-release mode keeps a newly published English page private until its complete Welsh counterpart is ready, then releases both in one protected transaction. 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. English remains independent under the default publication choice; equal-release mode safely keeps only new English content private until its Welsh counterpart is ready. Administrators can emergency-pause or disconnect Drych at any time. After pairing, Drych provides four canonical destinations in the WordPress admin menu: Home, Translations, Settings and Help. During onboarding, Home shows saved setup progress and one Continue setup action. Afterwards, Home stays focused on overall state, the current translation batch, the next milestone, compact entitlement and recent activity. Translation selection, review and payment actions remain in Translations; website-wide controls remain in Settings. Inventory can be refreshed whenever pages, posts or navigation change. Each plan includes a fixed number of managed pages; the administrator chooses those pages explicitly, and Drych rechecks the current tier at dispatch time. Navigation is inventoried and translated automatically without consuming a managed-page place. Translation words remain a separate monthly balance. New or changed English content also tells Drych to refresh immediately, with a scheduled catalogue check as fallback. After the initial cycle, the recommended policy replaces repeated edits with the latest pending revision and sends the complete pending update batch once daily at the stated time. An administrator may choose manual dispatch or send the complete batch early with Send now. Pages outside the managed selection remain visible as new pages available to manage and are never selected, purchased or dispatched automatically. Testing-sandbox accounts can safely clear unused test work, inventory, scans, choices and local connection state to repeat the new-user journey without deleting existing WordPress content. Translations contains the canonical searchable content list. It filters by the customer-facing translation states, shows matched English and Welsh state, managed-page use, current batch and next action, and keeps content refresh beside the inventory it updates. Page and batch histories use the same concise stages while preserving page-level exceptions and factual progress. Home opens by default. Publishing English immediately is selected by default, with equal bilingual release available during setup. More than one eligible package can remain with Clear at once. Pages and Posts retain a compact English/Cymraeg pair view, and the launch requires the administrator to review every selected waiting page before translation begins. 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.

1. In WordPress, open Plugins > Add New and search for "Drych".
2. Install and activate Drych.
3. Follow Start bilingual setup, or choose Drych from the left admin menu.
4. Create a free Drych account or sign in; the website address is filled in automatically.
5. Verify your email if you are new, then return to WordPress and approve the secure connection.
6. If needed, use WordPress's standard buttons to install and activate Polylang, then run the guided English/Welsh setup. Choose whether English publishes immediately (the default) or new English and Welsh content are released together. Setup also previews and selects the standard accessible language switch; specialist controls remain in Settings.
7. Review the first content inventory, confirm the pages, posts and supported custom content Drych should manage, and check the automatically included supporting site content. The inventory and scope confirmation do not send translation work or use translation words.
8. After the initial batch, keep the recommended once-daily update batch or choose manual dispatch. Send now always sends the complete eligible pending batch and does not change when English or Welsh content is published.

No WordPress password or Application Password needs to be created or copied. A reviewed ZIP remains available from Drych only as a fallback for private pilots or when the WordPress.org directory is unavailable.

3.0.0

• Lets each authorised WordPress administrator or editor use their own WordPress identity and existing capabilities.
• Assigns translation-review, technical and billing contacts explicitly instead of emailing every administrator.
• Adds verified production moves, provider-migration revalidation and managed-page choices after plan downgrades.
• Keeps published content, drafts, language relationships and account records through pause, disconnect, deactivation and uninstall.
• Keeps content deletion separate from every lifecycle control.

2.9.0

• Shows provenance-aware quality and publication exceptions in WordPress.
• Routes unchanged supplied Welsh wording to Clear Translations with no customer action.
• Offers one deliberate recovery choice for WordPress wording changes and failed public verification.

2.8.0

• Added matched English/Welsh review, auditable approval and page-level correction rounds in WordPress.

2.7.0

• Consolidates the latest revisions of all managed content into one complete pending update batch.
• Adds a stated once-daily default, manual dispatch and an explicit Send now action.
• Keeps unmanaged new pages visible without selecting, purchasing or dispatching them automatically.
• Waits without partial dispatch when the complete batch needs more entitlement or payment authority.

2.6.0

• Adds the canonical searchable Translations content list with English/Welsh state, managed-page use, refresh recovery and factual page and batch history.
• Selects and previews one safe language-switch preset during setup, keeps it hidden until matched Welsh content is public and leaves specialist customization in Settings.
• Separates English release timing from Welsh review or automatic publication.
• Shows the consequence of every publishing combination and records website-specific versioned standing authority.
• Supports an audited urgent-English override without changing the website-wide matched-release setting.

2.5.5

• Opens a focused Drych account hand-off that keeps the website, Connect Drych task and manual WordPress return visible through sign-in, registration and verification.
• Lets an authorised account match or deliberately add the current website to its eligible organisation before issuing the one-time connection.
• Returns to the exact Connect Drych setup step and explains organisation or domain mismatches without exposing another organisation's details.

2.5.4

• Checks administrator capability, the canonical HTTPS website address and live same-origin REST availability before guided Polylang setup, with a recovery action for each problem.
• Returns automatically to Prepare WordPress after WordPress activates Polylang so interrupted setup can resume safely.
• Shows exactly which selected items use included words and names every item requiring an optional one-off payment.
• Returns deleted or trashed Welsh counterparts to the translation queue during a fresh inventory scan.

2.5.3

• Makes managed-page selection the main onboarding action, separates automatic navigation, and keeps completed content out of translation activity.

2.5.2

• Recover cleanly when a completed one-time connection request is submitted again.

2.5.1

• Adds automatic update discovery from drych.cymru for installations outside the WordPress.org directory.
• Verifies the downloaded release against Drych's published SHA-256 checksum before WordPress can install it.

2.5.0

• Keeps inventory refresh, publication timing and managed-page selection inside the guided WordPress journey.
• Adds repeatable page, post and navigation inventory refresh.
• Enforces each tier's managed-page cap independently of its monthly word allowance.
• Lets administrators choose which pages are included and change the selection later.
• Adds a sandbox-only complete onboarding reset while preserving WordPress content.

2.4.0

• Adds a guided first inventory and missing-Welsh check without consuming translation words.
• Recommends explainable visitor tasks such as Home and Contact, lets the administrator confirm every managed item explicitly, and keeps supporting site content separate from the managed-page limit.
• Makes immediate English publication the preselected default while offering an explicit setup choice to release new English and Welsh content together.

2.3.3

• Simplifies WordPress Translations to words available, words waiting and clear one-off or monthly payment choices.
• Keeps unused starter words available in later allowance periods while monthly words reset.
• Makes a paid package's monthly words available as soon as Stripe confirms it, alongside any unused starter words.

2.3.2

• Lets administrators select WordPress pages that cannot fit the remaining allowance, see an exact one-off price and pay securely without requiring an audit.
• Reserves the selected page revisions against duplicate sending and dispatches them immediately when Stripe confirms payment, bypassing the grouped-send cron.
• Keeps unfinished payment controls visible so the customer can continue or cancel and release the unchanged pages.
• Requires paired-administrator, exact-resource edit and post-type publish capabilities before the protected WordPress write route can change or publish managed Welsh content.

2.3.1

• Shows the current Drych translation status from the page and post editor, including a direct link to WordPress Translations.
• Renders the grouped-send countdown immediately on the server before the live seconds begin updating.

2.3.0

• Notifies Drych when managed English content changes so the WordPress queue refreshes promptly, with the scheduled catalogue check retained as a fallback.
• Groups eligible waiting pages into fixed 15-minute translation dispatch windows instead of sending one package for each page save.
• Shows a live minute-and-second countdown to the next grouped translation dispatch.

2.2.1

• Allows only WordPress's exact first-publication metadata and Polylang term-translation side effects while retaining atomic rollback for every unexpected change.
• Uses the latest protected WordPress version token when visible managed wording and publication state are unchanged.

2.2.0

• Adds managed Welsh translation for classic menu items and Navigation blocks while preserving links, order and structure; linked pages publish before navigation and unavailable Welsh destinations keep navigation private.
• Sends a genuinely empty Welsh target for first translations and keeps existing Welsh only for correction work.
• Gives navigation and other managed WordPress content clear type and status labels in WordPress Translations.
• Prevents a WordPress segment claimed by a manual correction package from also entering an automatic package.

2.1.15

• Adds the translator guidance required for every interface string containing numbered or count placeholders.

2.1.14

• Shows the one-off starter allowance separately from the plan's monthly allowance.
• Reflects the revised self-service packages, including Active's automatic weekly website check.

2.1.13

• Makes clear that a public-site audit is separate from automatic translation of new WordPress content and that the customer chooses which audit findings to send.

2.1.12

• Simplifies monthly allowances to correction words only. Pages found within the audit scope can be sent whenever the complete page fits the remaining word allowance.

2.1.11

• Explains the exact setup or connection issue instead of showing a generic warning.
• Puts a required safety-check action in plain sight, including when an earlier certificate has become stale.

2.1.10

• Adds an allowlisted sandbox-only reset for unreturned WordPress test translation packages.
• Restores reserved words and page allowances, returns affected pages to waiting and pauses automatic translation after a reset.
• Protects returned, exported, billed, Scheduler-linked and publication-linked packages from deletion.

2.1.9

• Opens healthy connected sites in WordPress Translations, with language-button controls moved to Settings and setup or connection checks in a separate attention-aware tab.
• Allows additional eligible WordPress translation packages to be sent while earlier packages are still with Clear.

2.1.8

• Shows translation-word and WordPress-page allowances as separate balances, including used and reserved amounts.
• Counts a complete WordPress page as one page allowance instead of counting each technical text section separately.
• Explains whether pages are waiting for words, page allowance or the current translation package to return.

2.1.7

• Keeps the protected safety certificate identical between real WordPress cron and HTTPS web requests by fingerprinting the configured canonical site URL.

2.1.6

• Shows linked English and Cymraeg page or post titles side by side in the WordPress content list.
• Links each language card directly to its editor, highlights the page represented by the current row and recognises existing Polylang or WPML pairs as well as Drych-managed content.

2.1.5

• Shrinks and vertically centres the Drych icon in the WordPress admin menu with balanced internal padding.

2.1.4

• Adds a fail-closed, visibly labelled testing mode for the protected Drych WordPress sandbox.
• Keeps production as the default and accepts only the named production or testing Drych service.
• Invalidates connection and safety certification when a WordPress installation changes service environment.

2.1.3

• Presents one page-level WordPress translation queue instead of repeated text-segment issues.
• Explains automatic translation, WordPress detection and live-site verification as one clear workflow.
• Shows draft correction requests separately and previews the allowance remaining after they are sent.
• Keeps later scan concerns about Drych-managed wording with the original job for complimentary review, without charging the words twice.
• Adds Drych to the main WordPress admin menu with the Drych icon and shows Welsh translation status in Pages and Posts.
• Adds [drych_language_switcher] and a safe PHP template helper for manually placed language buttons.
• Protects mid-translation edits by retaining unchanged work and replacing—not double-counting—superseded wording.

2.1.2

• Replaced WordPress authentication-salt credential derivation with independent random site credentials.
• Moved admin and language-switch assets to WordPress's enqueue APIs.
• Restricted the managed content catalog to WordPress administrators.

2.1.1

• Restores the previous local connection and pause state when Drych cannot confirm a reconnect.

2.1.0

• Added the original WordPress-native translation screen for allowances and correction work; the confirmed 3.0 journey later replaced its obsolete audit and correction branches.
• Added separate site-scoped authentication and short-lived one-use links for Drych account actions and checkout.
• Added direct self-service plan selection for Free customers.
• Removed the enforced colour-contrast threshold from language-switch settings.

2.0.0

• Added direct Drych Free registration and passwordless site pairing from WordPress.
• Added guided English/Welsh setup using WordPress-controlled Polylang installation or existing Polylang/WPML adoption.
• Added linked private Welsh counterparts, stable translation segments and safe source-change shadow drafts.
• Added review-first and consent-gated hands-off Welsh staging and publication support.
• Added an automatic accessible language switch with configurable location, colours, shape, size and wording.
• Added protected content cataloguing, exact read-back, rollback and recovery support.

1.1.0

• Added WordPress-native, passwordless Drych pairing.
• Added a site-scoped bearer credential limited to protected Drych routes.
• Runs certification during connection and safely re-certifies after relevant environment changes.
• Added one-click emergency pause, disconnect and token rotation controls.
• Added WordPress.org service and privacy disclosures.

1.0.0

• Initial certified WordPress page/post publication adapter.