Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries for WordPress

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.

6 visual styles, 4 sizes, custom colors, brand SVG icons, dark-mode auto-adaptation, drag-and-drop ordering. 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?

Cite your source naturally: when readers expand the summary or share to an AI assistant, your URL travels with the content.

Reach every audience: full social spectrum plus 11 AI assistants in one place.

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, 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

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

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Need help or have suggestions?

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