Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries

Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries turns every post into an AI-aware destination. It generates an inline AI summary readers can expand next to the share buttons, and offers one-click sharing to every major social network and the leading AI assistants.

Among the first plugins to integrate the native WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors API: configure your AI provider once in Settings > Connectors (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and the plugin reuses those credentials — no API keys to manage, no extra accounts.

Inline AI Summary

• Two-tier cascade: Level A uses the WordPress 7.0 AI Client; Level C is a built-in PHP extractive fallback with zero API cost on any WP 6.1+ install.
• Choose your AI model and mode: pick the provider and model used to generate summaries, or leave it on Automatic to use a fast, cost-effective model instead of the newest, most expensive one. Set how generation behaves too: AI with extractive fallback, AI only, extractive only, or disabled.
• Paragraph or bullet-list format: show the summary as prose (one paragraph per sentence) or as a concise bullet list, with configurable length (1-5 sentences or points).
• Collapsible inline block with native <details>, data-nosnippet and Schema.org CreativeWork microdata so search engines treat it as derived content, not competition.
• Editor controls in the block sidebar and the classic meta box: view, edit manually, regenerate on demand, hide per post (independently from the buttons).
• Visitor-facing “Generate AI summary” button for posts without a stored summary, restrictable to extractive-only or open to the AI Client.
• Async generation via WP-Cron. [ayudawp_aiss_summary] shortcode also available.

Sharing

• Social networks: X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, Email, Raindrop, Reddit, Bluesky, LINE, Mastodon, Threads, Pinterest.
• AI assistants: Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, Qwen, Meta AI — each opens with a citation-ready prompt linking back to your URL.
• Browser actions: a Copy link button and a native Share button that opens the device share sheet (reaching WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, Messages or AirDrop), shown only where the browser supports it.
• Where they show: inline before or after the content, through the [ayudawp_share_buttons] shortcode, or in a floating bar pinned to the left, the right or the bottom of the screen — on its own or alongside the inline block.
• Compact on phones: optionally collapse the whole set behind a single Share button, or show a few buttons plus a More button, without touching the desktop layout.
• 6 visual styles, 4 sizes, custom colors, brand SVG icons, dark-mode auto-adaptation, drag-and-drop ordering, optional UTM tagging. SEO-friendly (<a rel="nofollow"> or <button>, auto-exclusion on noindex content for all major SEO plugins).

Analytics

• Click tracking per platform and per post, timeline chart with per-platform breakdown, period comparison (previous period, same period last year, custom range), CSV export.
• Dashboard widget with 7-day sparkline. VigIA cross-reference (clicks vs. AI crawler visits) when active. Redis/Memcached compatible.

Why use it?

1. Cite your source naturally: when readers expand the summary or share to an AI assistant, your URL travels with the content.
2. Reach every audience: full social spectrum plus 11 AI assistants in one place.
3. Future-proof: built on WP 7.0 Connectors and a REST API ready for agentic clients.

External services

This plugin connects to third-party AI providers only when the inline AI Summary feature is enabled and an AI Connector is configured (or the WP AI Client is available). All other features — social and AI share buttons, click analytics, the extractive PHP fallback summary — run entirely on your own server and do not contact any external service.

AI Summary generation

When a post is saved (or when the editor / a visitor explicitly clicks “Regenerate” or “Generate AI summary”), the plugin uses the WordPress 7.0 AI Client (wp_ai_client_prompt()) to request a short summary from whichever provider you configured in Settings > Connectors. The plugin never stores your API keys — they are managed centrally by WordPress core.

What is sent:

• Post title (plain text)
• Post content (HTML stripped, up to ~3000 characters of plain text)
• A short instruction asking the provider to return a summary

What is not sent: API keys (managed by core Connectors), visitor IP addresses, user accounts, analytics data, or any other personal data of your readers.

Possible destinations (depending on which Connector your administrator activates):

• OpenAI — Terms of use · Privacy policy
• Anthropic — Terms of service · Privacy policy
• Google AI — Terms of service · Privacy policy

If you do not configure any Connector, or your WordPress version is below 7.0, the plugin falls back to the local PHP extractive summarizer and no external request is made.

How to opt out

• Set AI Summary generation to Disabled in the AI Summary tab of the plugin settings.
• Or choose Extractive only to keep summaries fully local — zero external requests, ever.
• Or choose AI only while leaving no Connector configured — no requests will be sent, and summaries simply won’t be generated.
• The visitor-facing “Generate AI summary” button is off by default; if enabled, you can additionally restrict it to the extractive PHP path so visitor clicks never reach an external provider.

Sharing buttons

The social and AI sharing buttons render as <a> / <button> elements that open the respective destination only when the visitor clicks them — your server does not contact those services. The plugin’s analytics endpoint that records button clicks runs locally on your own site.

Advanced Usage

Shortcode parameters

The [ayudawp_share_buttons] shortcode accepts several parameters:

buttons: Comma-separated list of buttons to display
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons buttons="claude,chatgpt,deepseek,twitter,mastodon"]
– Available: twitter, linkedin, facebook, telegram, whatsapp, email, raindrop, reddit, bluesky, line, mastodon, threads, pinterest, copy_link, web_share, claude, chatgpt, google_ai, gemini, grok, perplexity, deepseek, mistral, copilot, qwen, meta_ai

style: Visual style to use
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons style="outline"]
– Options: minimal, brand, outline, dark, custom, icons-only

size: Button size preset
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons size="compact"]
– Options: compact, normal, large, fluid

show_icons: Show icons with text (for non-icons-only styles)
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons show_icons="true" style="brand"]
– Options: true, false

icon_style: Icon corner style (for icons-only mode)
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons style="icons-only" icon_style="circular"]
– Options: circular, square

alignment: Button alignment
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons alignment="center"]
– Options: left, center

show_title: Show or hide the section title
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons show_title="false"]
– Options: true, false

title_text: Custom title text
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons title_text="Share this content"]

title_style: Title HTML element
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons title_style="h3"]
– Options: h3, h4, h5, h6, span

ai_title: Section title for AI buttons group
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons ai_title="Summarize with AI"]

social_title: Section title for social buttons group
– Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons social_title="Share on social media"]

Combined examples:

[ayudawp_share_buttons buttons="claude,deepseek,twitter" style="brand" show_icons="true"]

[ayudawp_share_buttons style="icons-only" icon_style="circular"]

[ayudawp_share_buttons show_title="true" title_text="Share or Summarize" title_style="h3"]

[ayudawp_share_buttons ai_title="Summarize with AI" social_title="Share" style="outline" show_icons="true"]

[ayudawp_share_buttons buttons="chatgpt,qwen,meta_ai,mastodon,threads" size="compact" style="brand"]

[ayudawp_share_buttons style="icons-only" icon_style="square" size="large"]

[ayudawp_share_buttons size="fluid" style="outline" show_icons="true"]

AI summary shortcode

The [ayudawp_aiss_summary] shortcode renders the AI-generated summary as a standalone collapsible block. Useful when you want to place the summary somewhere other than where the share buttons are auto-inserted, or when you have buttons disabled but still want to surface the summary.

post_id: Render the summary of a specific post
– Example: [ayudawp_aiss_summary post_id="123"]
– Defaults to the current post in the loop when omitted

The shortcode outputs nothing when the post has no stored summary, so it is safe to drop into templates without conditional wrappers.

CSS Customization Guide

The plugin uses CSS custom properties for all brand colors. You can override these in your theme to change any platform color globally:

Override platform colors:
.ayudawp-share-buttons {
–ayudawp-claude: #ff0000;
–ayudawp-chatgpt: #00ff00;
}

Main container classes:
– .ayudawp-share-buttons – Main wrapper container
– .ayudawp-buttons-container – Direct container for all buttons
– .ayudawp-title – Title element before buttons
– .ayudawp-section-title – Section title with extra top margin
– .ayudawp-aiss-centered – Applied when centered alignment is enabled

Button classes:
– .ayudawp-share-btn – Base class for all buttons (both <a> and <button> elements)
– .ayudawp-icon-wrapper – Container for button icons
– .ayudawp-button-text – Text label inside buttons
– .ayudawp-icon – SVG icon element

Style modifier classes:
– .brand – Brand colors style
– .outline – Outline style (brand-colored borders)
– .minimal – Minimal style
– .dark – Dark background style
– .custom – Custom colors style
– .icons-only – Icons-only mode
– .with-icons – Text buttons with icons
– .circular – Circular icon buttons
– .square – Square icon buttons

Size modifier classes:
– .size-compact – Compact button size
– .size-large – Large button size
– .size-fluid – Fluid width buttons

Platform-specific classes (on buttons):
– .twitter, .linkedin, .facebook, .telegram, .whatsapp
– .email, .raindrop, .reddit, .bluesky, .line
– .mastodon, .threads, .pinterest
– .claude, .chatgpt, .google-ai, .gemini, .grok
– .perplexity, .deepseek, .mistral, .copilot
– .qwen, .meta-ai
– .ai – Applied to all AI platform buttons

Example: Change Claude button color:
.ayudawp-share-buttons {
–ayudawp-claude: #your-color;
}

Example: Change all AI buttons background:
.ayudawp-share-buttons .ayudawp-share-btn.ai {
background: #f0f0f0;
}

Example: Hide specific button:
.ayudawp-share-btn.facebook {
display: none;
}

Customize or remove separator lines:
The main container has top and bottom border lines. You can hide either of them from the settings (Share Buttons → Separator lines) with no code. CSS is only needed to replace them with your own style:

.ayudawp-share-buttons {
    border-top: 2px dashed #ccc;
    border-bottom: 2px dashed #ccc;
}

Important notes:
– The use of !important is no longer needed for most overrides
– Use CSS custom properties to change brand colors cleanly
– Test on both desktop and mobile viewports
– Icons-only buttons have fixed dimensions (44px default, 36px compact, 54px large)

Technical Details

System requirements

• WordPress 6.1 or higher (7.0+ for AI-generated summaries)
• PHP 7.4 or higher (compatible up to PHP 8.4)
• Theme compatible with wp_head() and wp_footer()

Performance features

• Modular file structure for maximum efficiency
• Selective loading of resources (CSS/JS only where buttons display)
• No external dependencies: the front end script is plain JavaScript and does not load jQuery
• The floating bar ships its CSS and JS as separate files, loaded only where the bar is shown
• Optimized CSS with custom properties and minimal specificity
• Lightweight SVG icons (under 1KB each)
• Minimal database impact: analytics queries are cached (5 min) and compatible with persistent object cache (Redis, Memcached)
• Smart responsive layouts
• REST API for lightweight analytics data retrieval

Developer features

• Clean, documented code
• WordPress coding standards compliant
• Hook-based architecture
• Modular class structure in /includes folder
• Extensible icon system using Simple Icons
• Translation ready
• Comprehensive shortcode API
• SEO-friendly markup options
• Post meta for individual exclusions
• Centralized platform color definitions
• Filters to extend the 2.5.0 features: ayudawp_aiss_floating_bar_buttons (which buttons the bar shows), ayudawp_aiss_show_floating_bar (whether it renders on a given request), ayudawp_aiss_utm_args (the campaign parameters added to a shared link) and ayudawp_aiss_trusted_proxies (which addresses may set the forwarding header behind a CDN or load balancer)

Support

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Need help or have suggestions?

• Official website
• WordPress support forum
• YouTube channel
• Documentation and tutorials

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Automatic installation

1. Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress admin
2. Search for “Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries”
3. Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”
4. Go to Settings > Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries to configure

Manual installation

1. Download the plugin ZIP file
2. Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin
3. Select the ZIP file and click “Install Now”
4. Activate the plugin
5. Configure in Settings > Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries

Complete setup

1. Go to Settings > Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries
2. Select enabled buttons: Choose which social networks and AIs to display
3. Configure automatic insertion:
   • Choose position: Before content, after, both, or disabled (shortcode only)
   • Select content types: Posts, pages, products, or any Custom Post Type
4. Configure SEO integration: Enable/disable automatic exclusion of noindex content
5. Customize AI prompt: Modify the default text if desired (excellent default included)
6. Configure title: Change the text before buttons and choose heading style
7. Set section titles: Optionally set separate titles for AI and Social groups
8. Configure X mentions: Add your X (Twitter) handle for automatic mentions
9. Set Mastodon instance: Enter your Mastodon server domain if using Mastodon
10. Choose visual style: Minimal, brand colors, outline, dark, custom colors, or icons-only
11. Set button size: Compact, normal, large, or fluid
12. Pick custom colors: Use the color picker when “Custom colors” style is selected
13. Configure icons: Enable icons for text styles or use pure icons-only mode
14. Set icon shape: Choose circular or square corners for icons-only buttons
15. Set button order: Social first, AI first, or mixed — drag & drop to reorder within each group
16. Configure SEO settings: Choose between links with nofollow or button elements
17. Configure data retention: Set retention period and optionally delete all data when plugin is uninstalled
18. Configure the AI Summary in its own tab:
    • Choose the generation mode (AI with extractive fallback, AI only, extractive only, or disabled) and, optionally, the AI model
    • Choose position (before / after the buttons, before the content, or disabled)
    • Pick the post types where summaries should be generated (fully independent from the buttons’ list)
    • Optionally enable the visitor-facing “Generate AI summary” button for posts without a stored summary
    • On WordPress 7.0+, configure your AI provider in Settings > Connectors (the plugin reuses those credentials — no API keys to manage here)
19. Save changes (the Share Buttons and AI Summary tabs each save their own options)

Manual insertion with shortcode:
– Share buttons: [ayudawp_share_buttons]
– AI summary block: [ayudawp_aiss_summary] or [ayudawp_aiss_summary post_id="123"]
– Specific buttons: [ayudawp_share_buttons buttons="claude,twitter,linkedin,deepseek,mastodon"]
– Custom style: [ayudawp_share_buttons style="minimal" show_title="false"]
– With icons: [ayudawp_share_buttons show_icons="true" style="brand"]
– Icons only: [ayudawp_share_buttons style="icons-only"]
– Circular icons: [ayudawp_share_buttons style="icons-only" icon_style="circular"]
– Custom title: [ayudawp_share_buttons title_text="Share or Summarize" title_style="h3"]
– Section titles: [ayudawp_share_buttons ai_title="Summarize with AI" social_title="Share on social media"]
– Button size: [ayudawp_share_buttons size="compact"]
– Outline style: [ayudawp_share_buttons style="outline" show_icons="true"]

Per-post controls (block editor sidebar / classic meta box):
– Hide share buttons on this specific post
– Hide the AI summary on this specific post (independent from the buttons control)
– View, edit and regenerate the AI summary on demand
– Manually-edited summaries are locked against auto-regeneration

1. 

   Inline AI summary collapsible block above the share and AI buttons on a post

2. 

   Mobile responsive view

3. 

   Plugin settings for social and AI sharing buttons

4. 

   Prompt opened on ChatGPT

5. 

   Editor controls box: hide buttons or manage the AI summary

6. 

   SEO integration setting with detected SEO plugin

7. 

   Analytics dashboard with timeline chart and platform breakdown

8. 

   Period comparison with timeline overlay and stat card indicators

9. 

   Dashboard widget with sparkline and top platforms

10. 

    AI Summary settings with WP 7.0 AI Client status and Connectors link

11. 

    Visitor-facing "Generate AI summary" button for posts without a stored summary

2.5.0

New floating share bar, compact mode for phones, Copy link and native Share buttons, UTM tagging, and a reorganised settings screen where the three overlapping location settings become a single list.

• New: The settings screen is reorganised. Where the buttons appear was governed by three settings that had to agree with each other (the locations, the content types and the insertion position), two of them listing overlapping things, and nothing on screen said the condition was an AND, so ticking one of them and seeing no buttons was the usual first experience. They are now a single list with one row per destination and its own position, which also makes possible something that was not before: buttons after the content on posts and before it on pages. Your current setup is migrated to the new list, keeping what visitors were actually seeing rather than the literal settings. The rest of the screen is grouped under headings, with related settings side by side, so the two halves of the same decision are no longer twelve rows apart.
• New: The buttons you enable are shown as the real buttons, in the style you picked, and the preview repaints as you change the style, the icons or the corner shape. The AI Summary tab gets the same treatment: its thirteen settings are now four groups, and the block appearance is decided against a live sample instead of by saving and reloading.
• New: The floating bar can have its own destinations, so the inline block and the bar no longer have to appear in the same places: the block on posts and the bar on the blog home, or the other way round.
• New: Floating share bar. A new option pins the same enabled buttons, in icon form, to the left edge, the right edge or the bottom of the screen on single content. It can accompany the inline block or replace it entirely, it can use its own destinations so the two never have to coincide, it can be set to appear only while the reader scrolls down, and it can be told to stand aside on pages where the inline block is already showing. On phones it is hidden by default, and the side positions become a strip along the bottom when it is switched on, because a column pinned to the side of a small screen eats the reading area. Its CSS and JS are separate files, loaded only on pages where the bar is shown.
• New: Compact mode on phones. The buttons block can now show a single Share button that opens the rest, or a few buttons plus a More button, so a long list of platforms no longer fills the screen on mobile. The desktop layout is unchanged, and which buttons stay visible follows the order you set by dragging.
• New: Copy link button. A new platform that copies the post address to the clipboard, confirms it on screen and counts in the analytics like any other button.
• New: Native share button. Uses the browser share sheet, which reaches WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, Messages, AirDrop and any other app installed on the device. It is only rendered where the browser supports it, so it never shows as a dead button.
• New: Optional UTM tagging. A checkbox adds utm_source (the platform), utm_medium (social, ai or share) and an optional campaign name to the shared link, so you can tell this traffic apart in your analytics.
• New: The summary now has a position per content type, like the buttons: next to them on posts and before the content on pages, which a single global position could not express. “Do not display” becomes one of those positions, so a type can still generate its summary for the shortcode or the REST API without printing it.
• Improved: The buttons you can enable are now shown in the settings as the buttons themselves, grouped into social networks, AI assistants and browser actions, each rendered with the style you picked. It replaces the row of bare icons, which said nothing about size, colour or shape.
• Improved: The default label of the summary block is now “TL;DR (AI Generated)”. It says what the block is in the words readers already use, and it states plainly that a machine wrote it, which is what the EU AI Act expects of generated content shown to the public. A label you set yourself is untouched.
• Improved: Compact mode on phones is on by default for new installs, showing a single Share button that opens the rest. Updating sites keep whatever they had.
• Improved: Meta AI now opens with the prompt already written, instead of copying it to the clipboard for you to paste. Checked platform by platform in September 2026: Gemini, DeepSeek, Copilot and Qwen still offer no way to pre-fill the prompt from the address, so those four keep copying it.
• Improved: The settings screen uses the width it has. The form was capped well below what the browser offered while the promo cards ran along the bottom, where nobody scrolls; the content now sits in one column with the cards in a rail beside it that follows as you scroll, and folds underneath on narrower screens. Every field, description and heading shares one measure instead of two.
• Improved: Less weight on pages that have nothing to show. The stylesheet and the script were loaded on every singular view, archive and blog home whenever the buttons were not placed there, in case a shortcode turned up; a site with the buttons on posts was downloading 71 KB on its home page and on every archive to render nothing at all. They now load where something is actually placed, plus singular views whose content really does carry the shortcode. The list of platform names sent with the script is trimmed to the buttons you enabled.
• Improved: The front end no longer loads jQuery for the share buttons. The script was rewritten in plain JavaScript, so a block theme that does not use jQuery stops loading it (about 85 KB and one request) just to show the buttons. The same pass moved the hover effect and the mobile icon grid to the stylesheet, replaced a browser event removed from Chrome in 2024, reduced the tooltip to a single shared element instead of one per button, and sends click tracking with sendBeacon so it survives the page being replaced by the destination.
• Improved: Accessibility of the buttons block. Each group of buttons is now announced with the section title you wrote, or with a description when there is none, the keyboard focus ring no longer appears on mouse clicks, and the copy confirmation is announced by screen readers.
• Improved: Click tracking identifies the post directly from the buttons block, instead of relying on the theme marking the article in a particular way, so analytics are accurate on more themes.
• Improved: The summary, provider and content-hash post fields are sanitized on save. They are written by the plugin itself and the output was already escaped, so nothing changes on screen; it closes the gap on the way in as well.
• Fix: The Minimal and Outline styles of the summary block were indistinguishable, both drawing the same thin grey box. Minimal is now genuinely minimal, a rule above the block and nothing else, and Outline draws a real box in the accent colour with its heading to match.
• Fix: With a filled style (Brand, Dark or Custom colours), the “Generate AI summary” button that visitors see was painted as a full-width slab of colour with a small outlined button floating inside it. The colour now belongs to the button itself.
• Fix: The “fluid” button size behaved exactly like “normal” on phones. Both ended up as one full-width button per row, so choosing fluid changed nothing below 480 pixels; it now fills the row two buttons at a time, which is what it does on wider screens.
• Fix: The visitor generation limit could be bypassed on sites that trust a proxy header. Since 2.4.4 those headers are only read when the site opts in, but the address was taken from the start of the forwarding chain, which is the part the visitor writes. It now reads the end of the chain, and only when the request actually arrives from the proxy: an address declared with the new ayudawp_aiss_trusted_proxies filter, or the site own network when no list is declared.

For older changelog entries, please check the changelog.txt file