AI Share & Summarize

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

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