Title: Cadence Connector Author: Elegia Published: September 24, 2026 Last modified: September 24, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/cadence-connector/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3711296) ![](https://ps.w.org/cadence-connector/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3711296) # Cadence Connector By [Elegia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/elegiaio/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cadence-connector.0.7.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cadence-connector/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cadence-connector/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cadence-connector/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cadence-connector/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cadence-connector/) ## Description Cadence is Elegia’s content system. It drafts, translates and reviews articles in a brand’s own voice, starting from what the brand has already published. This plugin is how those articles reach your site: Cadence sends each finished piece to WordPress, usually as a draft for you to review, and links its language versions as WPML translations so nobody has to do it by hand. WPML has no documented REST endpoint for creating or linking translated posts, so the language variants of a piece never become each other’s translations without somebody linking them by hand. This plugin exposes an endpoint that writes that relationship through WPML’s own `wpml_set_element_language_details` action, plus endpoints to publish a piece and to replace one it published. Callers authenticate with a connector key issued on the settings screen, not as a WordPress user, and every request carries an Ed25519 signature over its own bytes: the key says a caller may publish here, the signature says this body is the one that caller composed. A request that disagrees with the site’s state is refused rather than reconciled: a duplicate identifier, a language the site does not run, a post this key did not publish. Nothing else is added: no post types, no front-end output, no telemetry, and no network requests of its own. The plugin never calls out; it only answers. WPML 4.5 or newer is needed for the translation-linking endpoint; only WPML’s core plugin is used, not the String Translation or Translation Management add-ons. Monolingual sites run the same plugin with no WPML; which one a site is must be declared in the request rather than detected here. Source, full endpoint reference and the security model: https://github.com/Elegia- io/cadence-wordpress ## Installation 1. Install through **Plugins Add New**, or upload the plugin directory to wp-content/ plugins/. 2. Activate it. The three endpoints go live under `/wp-json/cadence/v1/`. 3. Go to **Settings Cadence Connector** and issue a connector key: give it a label naming the tenant, tick the capabilities it needs, choose the byline its posts carry and the post types it may publish into. 4. The key is shown once and never again; the site stores only a SHA-256 of it. Callers present it as an `X-Cadence-Key` header. ## FAQ ### Does the plugin send anything anywhere? No. It answers requests and makes none of its own. It has no update-fetching code of its own either: updates arrive through WordPress.org like any other hosted plugin. ### Does it need WPML? Only the translation-linking endpoint does. Publishing and replacing work on a monolingual site with no WPML installed. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Cadence Connector” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Elegia ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/elegiaio/) [Translate “Cadence Connector” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/cadence-connector) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cadence-connector/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/cadence-connector/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cadence-connector/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cadence-connector/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.7.0 * The translation-linking route now requires an Ed25519 attestation over the plan’s own bytes, as the publishing and replacing routes already did. * Connector keys carry the post types they may reach; a key that no longer publishes a type no longer links it either. ## Meta * Version **0.7.0** * Last updated **16 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.2** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Tags * [multilingual](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multilingual/)[publishing](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/publishing/) [rest-api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest-api/)[translation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translation/) [wpml](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wpml/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cadence-connector/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cadence-connector/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cadence-connector/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Elegia ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/elegiaio/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cadence-connector/)