AI Share & Summarize

Description

AI Share & Summarize is the first free plugin published in WordPress.org that combines traditional social media sharing with the innovative functionality of generating summaries while citing the source in the top artificial intelligences.

Main features

• Social networks: X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, Email, Raindrop, Reddit, Bluesky, LINE, Mastodon, Threads, Pinterest
• Artificial intelligences: Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral AI, Microsoft Copilot, Qwen, Meta AI
• Official brand icons: High-quality SVG icons sourced from Simple Icons for accurate brand representation
• Visual customization: 6 button styles, 4 sizes, custom colors via color picker, and configurable button order
• Section titles: Optional separate headings for AI and Social button groups
• Individual exclusion: Hide buttons on specific posts or pages using a simple meta box
• Click analytics dashboard: Track button clicks by platform and content with timeline charts
• Period comparison: Compare analytics with previous period, same period last year, or custom dates
• CSV export: Download analytics data or timeline summaries as CSV files for analysis in Excel or Google Sheets
• Dashboard widget: Quick stats overview with 7-day sparkline directly on the WordPress dashboard
• VigIA integration: Cross-reference click data with AI crawler visits when VigIA plugin is active
• SEO plugin integration: Automatically exclude noindex content (Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework)
• SEO optimization options: Choose between <a> links with nofollow or <button> elements to optimize your link profile
• Universal tooltips: Helpful tooltips on ALL buttons for better user experience
• Smart automatic insertion: Configure exactly where and on which content types to display buttons
• Detailed control by content type: Choose specific post types (posts, pages, products, etc.)
• Customizable AI prompt: Configure the message sent to AIs for better summaries
• Customizable title: Change the text before buttons and choose heading style (h3-h6 or span)
• Multiple insertion modes: Before content, after content, both positions, or shortcode only
• 6 visual styles: Minimal, brand colors, outline, dark backgrounds, custom colors, and icons-only
• 4 button sizes: Compact, normal, large, and fluid (fills available width)
• Flexible icon options: Add icons to any style or use pure icons-only mode with circular/square shapes
• Button ordering: Social first, AI first, or mixed arrangement with drag & drop reordering within each group
• Button alignment: Choose between left-aligned (default) or centered layout for title and buttons
• Data retention control: Configurable retention period with automatic daily purge and manual data deletion
• Mastodon support: Configurable instance field for federated sharing
• Fully responsive: Adapts to any device and theme with smart mobile layouts
• SEO optimized: Nofollow links and target=”_blank” by default, or use button elements
• Lightweight: Optimized modular structure with ultra-fast loading SVG icons
• Accessible: Complies with web accessibility standards with enhanced tooltips
• Consistent design: Same size and behavior for both link and button elements

Why use this plugin?

This plugin helps you:

1. Generate natural backlinks: When users summarize your content with AI, they cite your source
2. Increase your reach: Combine traditional social sharing with AI power
3. Build authority: Your content becomes a reference source for future queries
4. Boost engagement: Users can interact with your content in multiple ways
5. Optimize SEO: Choose the HTML element type that best fits your SEO strategy
6. Stay ahead: Be among the first to leverage AI for content distribution
7. Modern appearance: Icons-only mode provides a sleek, professional look
8. Global reach: Support for LINE, Mastodon, and Threads brings access to diverse communities
9. Fine control: Exclude specific pages or noindex content automatically
10. Brand consistency: Custom colors and official brand icons match any site design

Advanced configuration

• Smart automatic insertion: Choose exactly where to insert buttons (before, after, both, or disabled)
• Content type control: Select specific post types from all registered in your WordPress
• Individual exclusion: Hide buttons on any post or page using a meta box checkbox
• SEO integration: Automatically hide buttons on noindex content
• Custom AI prompt: Optimize the message sent to AIs for better summaries with citation
• Custom title text: Configure the text shown before buttons or hide it completely
• Section titles: Set separate headings for AI and Social button groups
• Title style control: Choose between h3, h4, h5, h6 or span for the title element
• SEO optimization: Choose between traditional links or button elements for better link profile control
• X (Twitter) mentions: Configure your profile for automatic mentions in shares
• Mastodon instance: Set your Mastodon server for federated sharing
• Custom additional text: Add personalized text to AI prompts
• Visual styles: 6 predefined styles including outline and custom colors
• Button sizes: Compact, normal, large, or fluid width
• Custom colors: Background and text color picker for full brand control
• Advanced icon system: Show icons with text, icons-only mode, circular or square icons
• Button ordering: Organize buttons as social first, AI first, or mixed, with drag & drop reordering within each group
• Button alignment: Choose left or centered alignment for a cleaner design
• Data management: Configure retention period (1 month to forever), manual data deletion, and optional cleanup on uninstall
• Shortcode flexibility: Use [ayudawp_share_buttons] anywhere with extensive parameters

SEO features

• Link element control: Choose between <a> links with nofollow or <button> elements
• No PageRank leakage: All links include rel=”nofollow noopener” by default
• Crawl budget optimization: Button elements are not crawled by search engines
• Clean link profile: Reduce the total number of outbound links on your pages
• Semantic markup: Button elements are semantically correct for action triggers
• Flexible configuration: Set different options for different pages using shortcodes
• Noindex exclusion: Automatically hide buttons on content marked as noindex

Analytics features

• Click tracking: Every button click is recorded with platform, post, and date
• Timeline chart: Visualize total clicks over time with a daily breakdown
• Per-platform timeline: See each platform’s performance in the same chart with brand colors and interactive legend
• Period comparison: Compare current data with the previous period, same period last year, or a custom date range
• Comparison indicators: Stat cards show percentage change with color-coded arrows when comparison is active
• Comparison chart: Timeline switches to total view with a dashed overlay line and a detailed two-column tooltip
• Platform breakdown table: Ranked list of platforms by total clicks with paginated navigation
• Content performance table: Ranked list of posts and pages by total clicks with direct links and paginated navigation
• Platform type badges: Visual distinction between Social and AI platforms in all tables
• Date range filters: Filter data by 7, 15, 30, 90, 180, 365 days or a custom date range
• CSV export dropdown: Export the full dataset (current period) or a daily timeline summary, with comparison columns when active
• Dashboard widget: 7-day sparkline chart and top platforms summary on the WordPress admin homepage
• VigIA integration: When VigIA plugin is active, cross-reference your share clicks with AI crawler visits
• Cached queries: Analytics queries are cached for 5 minutes and compatible with Redis and Memcached
• REST API: Lightweight endpoints power all analytics views without full page reloads

Icon system features

• Official brand icons: Accurate SVG paths from Simple Icons for recognizable platform representation
• Icons-only style: Modern button design showing only platform icons
• Icons with text: Add recognizable icons to the left of button text in any style
• Responsive design: Icons automatically adapt size and layout for mobile devices
• Lightweight SVG: Ultra-optimized icons for minimal performance impact
• Smart tooltips: Platform names appear on hover for ALL buttons
• Flexible shapes: Choose between circular or square corners for icons-only buttons
• Consistent sizing: Same dimensions for both link and button elements

Special AI features

• Multiple AI platforms: Support for 11 different AI services
• Gemini integration: Automatically copies prompt to clipboard and opens Gemini
• DeepSeek integration: Automatically copies prompt to clipboard and opens DeepSeek
• Copilot integration: Automatically copies prompt to clipboard and opens Copilot
• Qwen integration: Copies prompt to clipboard and opens Alibaba’s AI assistant
• Meta AI integration: Copies prompt to clipboard and opens Meta’s AI assistant
• Optimized prompts: Pre-configured messages for best summary results with citation
• Direct links: Each AI opens with the complete prompt ready to process
• Source citation: All prompts automatically include your content URL as source
• Language support: Configure prompts to request responses in any language

Compatibility

• Supports any WordPress theme following standards
• Works with Custom Post Types automatically
• Optimized for WooCommerce products
• Compatible with page builders (Elementor, Gutenberg, etc.)
• Multi-language ready with automatic translations
• No external dependencies or conflicts
• Compatible with major SEO plugins

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"]

CSS Customization Guide

Since version 1.6.0, 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;
}

Important notes:
– Since v1.6.0, !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 5.0 or higher
• 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

Support

Need help or have suggestions?

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

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