Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries vs Webhook Actions – build automations and integrations with AI help

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 , data-nosnippet and Schema.org CreativeWork microdata, so Google leaves the summary out of its snippets and AI Overviews and it never competes with your own text. 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. Your own content inside the box: anything you want below the summary, as text, HTML or scripts (an ad, a newsletter form, a map, a notice), loaded when a reader opens the box, with an optional label. Only where there is something to summarize: posts with fewer than 50 words of text get no summary, so the box never shows an AI reply saying there was nothing to summarize. 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. Google Preferred Source: a button that takes readers to the Google tool where they mark your site as a preferred source, with the clicks counted per post. It can go with the social networks, in a section of its own, or anywhere with the shortcode. 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 ( or , 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 / elements that open the respective destination only when the visitor clicks them — your server does not contact those services. The same goes for the Google Preferred Source button, a plain link to Google’s preferred sources tool with your domain in it: no Google script is loaded (Terms of service · Privacy policy). 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, google_preferred, 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"] google_title: Title of the Google Preferred Source section, when it has a section of its own – Example: [ayudawp_share_buttons google_title="Follow us on Google"] 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. Printing the blocks in theme hooks Some themes rewrite the post content after WordPress filters it, for example to place ads, and end up duplicating whatever plugins added to it. For those, the ayudawp_aiss_content_anchors filter prints what goes before the content, what goes after it, or both, in an action of the theme instead: add_filter( 'ayudawp_aiss_content_anchors', function ( $anchors ) { $anchors['before'] = array( 'hook' => 'mytheme_before_content', 'priority' => 20 ); $anchors['after'] = array( 'hook' => 'mytheme_after_content', 'priority' => 1 ); return $anchors; } ); The settings still decide whether the buttons and the summary show and where (before, after or both). The stylesheet still loads in the head, exclusions and the floating bar keep working, and each block is printed once per page. Leave an anchor as the_content to keep it inside the content. 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 and 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: 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), ayudawp_aiss_trusted_proxies (which addresses may set the forwarding header behind a CDN or load balancer), ayudawp_aiss_content_anchors (print the blocks in theme actions), ayudawp_aiss_summary_min_words (minimum length for a summary), ayudawp_aiss_summary_custom_html (the custom content inside the summary box, per post) and ayudawp_aiss_google_preferred_domain (the domain sent to Google) Support Need private support or custom development? Do you need one-on-one help, priority troubleshooting, or a custom feature, integration, or tweak built specifically for your site? I offer private support and custom development. Just contact me and tell me what you need. Need help or have suggestions? Official website WordPress support forum YouTube channel Documentation and tutorials Love the plugin? Please leave us a 5-star review and help spread the word! About AyudaWP We are specialists in WordPress security, SEO, AI and performance optimization plugins. We create tools that solve real problems for WordPress site owners while maintaining the highest coding standards and accessibility requirements.

Describe the integration you want. The AI builds it. Webhook Actions ships with Build with AI — an in-admin agent that turns a plain-language request like “When a Contact Form 7 form is submitted, send it as JSON to my n8n webhook” into a working, tested automation. The agent proposes a plan you can review and edit, then creates the webhook, works from a real example payload — your site’s own capture, or the Payload Library for an event your site has never fired — maps the fields, sets dispatch conditions, probes your endpoint, and sends a test delivery. Nothing goes live without your confirmation — new webhooks are always created disabled, and you can undo the last change with one click. 🤖 Verified by WPVibe — works with Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. WPVibe ran 28 of the plugin’s 31 abilities on a live install, lists Webhook Actions in its Works with AI directory and publishes five tested recipes for it — see Ready-made AI recipes (WPVibe) below. It reads the API before it builds. Name HubSpot, OpenAI, Slack, Stripe, Notion or any of the 300+ services in the WP Webhooks API Docs Library and the agent works from that vendor’s current API reference — endpoint, auth header, body envelope, the errors people actually hit — not from the model’s memory of it. A service the library has never seen is researched from the vendor’s own docs on the spot, and every reply built this way says so. 📖 Full documentation at wpwebhooks.org/docs/ ▶️ Try it in your browser — no install, no signup, no API key What you can connect Sources — anything in WordPress that fires an action. Webhook Actions turns any do_action into a trigger, so form submissions, WooCommerce orders, user registrations, post publishes and your own custom plugin events can all start an automation. That covers Elementor Forms, WPForms, Forminator, Fluent Forms, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce and your own code — there is no per-plugin add-on to hunt down. Contact Form 7 and IvyForms go one step further with built-in support: their submissions are normalized into clean JSON payloads automatically. Destinations — any HTTP endpoint. The plugin sends outgoing webhooks to anything that accepts a request: an n8n, Make (formerly Integromat), Zapier or Pabbly webhook node, a Slack or Discord incoming-webhook URL for order and form notifications, Airtable, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, your CRM, an internal microservice, or an AI agent API. There are no bundled per-service connectors and none are needed — point a webhook at a URL, map the fields, and send. Every delivery is queued, retried on failure and logged with full request and response history. That makes it a no-code way to sync WordPress data outward: describe what you want in chat and let the AI build it, or wire it up by hand in the admin UI. No PHP required either way. No API key needed to start 55 free credits, no key and no signup — claimed automatically on your first prompt. There is no button to press, no account to create and no card; the plugin sends nothing but your site address. That is about five agent turns, or roughly two complete automations built end to end Try it without installing anything — Live Preview (also the button at the top of this page) boots a throwaway WordPress in your browser and runs the real agent on those credits WordPress connectors — if your site already has an AI provider connected (Settings → Connectors), the builder uses it directly and the plugin stores no keys My own keys — connect Anthropic, OpenAI or Google in the builder; keys are encrypted in the Credentials Vault and never returned over the API. A free Google AI Studio key gives you Gemini at no cost: step-by-step tutorial Your own key always wins — once a provider of yours is connected, the free credits are never spent Automatic fallback — if a provider is rate-limited mid-build, the agent switches to another connected provider and keeps going What the AI works from The agent doesn’t guess — it works from real payloads. It maps fields against actually captured payloads, edits existing webhooks by name or id instead of duplicating them, validates endpoints with a guarded probe (SSRF-protected, secrets always redacted), and verifies the result with a real test delivery. Every operation is also published as a WordPress Ability, so external AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor) can drive the same toolset over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with scoped API tokens. Ready-made AI recipes (WPVibe) WPVibe publishes these tested recipes for Webhook Actions. On a site connected to WPVibe, ask your AI to run a recipe by its name. See What Data Your Webhooks Send with Webhook Actions and AI — where every webhook sends your data and exactly which fields leave your site, in one read-only report. Beginner, about 5 minutes. Get Alerted When a Webhook Fails with Webhook Actions and AI — a message to Slack, email or another channel when a webhook gives up on a delivery, with one test message after your approval. Beginner, about 5 minutes. Find Out Why a Webhook Failed with Webhook Actions and AI — the webhook and its delivery log read, your endpoint checked, and the cause and fix explained before anything changes. Beginner, about 10 minutes. Send Contact Form 7 Submissions to Zapier, Make or n8n with Webhook Actions and AI — each submission of one Contact Form 7 form goes to your Zapier, Make or n8n webhook, with only the fields you pick. Intermediate, about 15 minutes. Send WooCommerce Orders to Zapier, Make or n8n with Webhook Actions and AI — a tested webhook sends the order fields you choose to Zapier, Make or n8n; it’s created switched off and turned on only after you approve. Intermediate, about 15 minutes. The Payload Library Mapping fields needs an example payload, and until a trigger fires on your site there is nothing to map against — which is worst on the events that are hardest to produce on demand: a refunded order, a cancelled subscription, a deleted user. The Payload Library closes that gap with hundreds of hook payloads captured on our own test sites — WordPress core, WooCommerce, ACF and the major form plugins — so the agent can work from the real shape of an event your site has never fired. Your own capture always wins the moment the event really fires, and a reference payload is always labelled as one: the trigger panel shows a “WP Webhooks Payload Library” badge naming the plugin build it came off, and every build made from one ends with a test delivery before the webhook can go live. What a reference payload cannot know is your own keys. Fields inside containers your site defines — a form’s fields, post or order meta, ACF — are never mapped from it; the agent pauses, names the paths, and asks you to fire the event once. Lookups run while Build with AI is on WP Webhooks AI (the free trial or Pro credits) and cost no credits. The API Docs Library A language model remembers an API the way it was documented when the model was trained: an old version path, a body envelope that has since changed, a required field it never saw. Build with AI does not build from that memory. When a prompt names a service the library knows — HubSpot, Airtable, Slack, Notion, Stripe, Shopify, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and 300+ more — WP Webhooks AI reads that service’s current reference card on our server and puts it in front of the model before it plans: the exact endpoint and method, how the auth token enters the plan (as a credential step, not a question in chat), the body envelope, request-level flags, and the 4xx responses that come up in practice. A service nobody has a card for yet is researched on the spot from the vendor’s own documentation — the chat says “Reading …’s API reference for the first time” while it waits, usually under a minute, and the wait costs no credits — and the card is kept for everyone. Every reply built from a card carries a “WP Webhooks API Docs Library” pill naming the service, the operation and the date the reference was verified, linking to the vendor’s page. Available while Build with AI runs on WP Webhooks AI (the free trial or Pro credits); about one credit on the turn that uses a card. Notifications Retries handle the flaky minute; Notifications handle the endpoint that stays down at 3 a.m. Get told when a delivery fails, retries, gives up, is skipped, succeeds or recovers — by email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Mattermost, Pushover, ntfy, SMS and WhatsApp through Twilio, PagerDuty (an incident that opens on failure and resolves on recovery), or any URL as JSON. Rules decide when and where: which attempt, which HTTP codes, which triggers; a quiet time per webhook so a bad hour is one message, not a hundred; hourly or daily digests. Every webhook inherits the site-wide rules, can mute single ones, keep only its own, or switch notifications off. Every message is a template with {{ payload.order.id }}-style placeholders, a field picker, a live preview against your captured payload, a linter — and a Draft with AI button. Channel secrets are encrypted and never shown again. Entirely free. Five-minute setup guide · Feature overview The engine underneath (free) Turn any WordPress do_action into a first-class automation trigger your CRMs, n8n flows, AI agents, and internal services can consume — every dispatch is an outgoing webhook you fully control Persistent delivery queue with smart retry and exponential backoff — powered by WP-Cron, auto-upgrades to Action Scheduler or System Cron when available, (Pro) External Cron for guaranteed reliability Per-event UUID and ISO 8601 timestamp — enable downstream deduplication Delivery logs with full attempt history, request/response inspection, replay, and bulk retry Code Glue — attach PHP snippets to any webhook+trigger to reshape the payload before dispatch or run side effects after the response, with a preview that runs your code against a real captured payload first. Build with AI can draft, test-run and assign them for you Per-webhook retry limit and backoff strategy (exponential, linear or fixed), each falling back to a site-wide default Synchronous execution mode — fire inline without queue delay Payload mapping — rename, restructure, exclude, and type-cast fields with dot-notation paths Conditional dispatch — filter events by payload field values before dispatch, so a Slack notification or a CRM sync only fires when it should. Build as many rules as you need and group them with AND/OR matching, by hand or by describing them to Build with AI HTTP method, custom headers, and URL query parameters per webhook Dynamic endpoint URLs — {{ field.path }} placeholders resolved against the payload at dispatch time, or the fswa_webhook_url filter if you would rather do it in PHP Webhook Chains — wire 2xx completions to downstream webhooks with full observability Import & Export — move webhooks and chains between sites as portable JSON (triggers, field mapping, conditions and Code Glue snippets included), with strict validation and a per-item result summary on import Markdown descriptions — document what each webhook and chain does inline, with a Write/Preview toggle while editing Notifications — email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, SMS, PagerDuty and more when a delivery fails, gives up or recovers; rules with filters, quiet times and digests; templated messages the AI can draft Credentials Vault — store reusable auth secrets (Bearer, Basic, API key, custom) encrypted at rest; reference them from webhooks instead of pasting raw Authorization headers. Secrets are write-only over the API — never returned, only a masked hint Activity History — persistent audit log of every admin and API-token action Built-in CF7 and IvyForms integrations — structured payloads, no extra plugins Action Scheduler auto-detection — more reliable delivery on high-traffic sites Fully translatable — the entire admin interface and all server-side strings are internationalized; ships with Polish, Simplified Chinese, and Dutch, and is compatible with WPML and Polylang String Translation Full REST API with scoped API token authentication (read / operational / full / agent) — the agent scope grants full write access for AI assistants while never exposing stored secrets Developer extensibility — 30 filters and 11 action hooks (reference) Pro features AI credits included — Build with AI runs through the hosted WP Webhooks AI service on every Pro plan: no API keys to create, no provider accounts, a monthly credit allowance that renews automatically, and a live credits counter in the builder. Your own keys and WordPress connectors stay available any time External Cron — replace unreliable visitor-triggered WP-Cron with a managed external pinger, provisioned automatically on license activation. Two modes: plugin queue endpoint (down to 20 s interval, configurable batch size) or WP-Cron endpoint (60 s, covers all WordPress background work). No server crontab or external dashboard — controlled entirely from wp-admin, with a live heartbeat chart and inline error alerts See pricing and upgrade → Examples Send Contact Form 7 submissions to a webhook (n8n demo) Send Gravity Forms Submissions to n8n Send IvyForms submissions to a webhook (n8n demo) WooCommerce orders to n8n on completion — wired up with a Claude Code agent WooCommerce to HubSpot integration — sync orders, contacts, and deals with no custom code