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Free Plugin by Fernando Tellado v2.4.4

Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries

Inline AI summary on every post + one-click sharing to social networks and 11 AI assistants. Powered by the new WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors.

Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries

The facts

Rating
5★ from 16
Active installs
1k+
Price
Free
Last updated
28 Aug 2026
Added
Aug 2025
Requires WP
6.1
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
Downloads
24,849

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries is a WordPress plugin that enhances posts with AI-generated summaries and social sharing options. It allows you to generate inline summaries using various AI providers and offers one-click sharing to multiple social networks and AI assistants. The plugin is designed for users who want to improve engagement and accessibility of their content through AI and social media integration.

The plugin features a two-tier summary generation system, configurable display options, and various analytics tools to track sharing performance. It connects to third-party AI providers only when the summary feature is enabled, ensuring that other functionalities operate solely on your server.

Best for: This plugin suits content creators and website owners looking to enhance user engagement through AI and social sharing.

What it does well

  • Generates AI summaries for posts
  • Offers one-click sharing to multiple social networks
  • Configurable summary display options
  • Includes click tracking and analytics features
  • Integrates with major AI assistants

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on specific performance metrics or user experience
  • No details on support or updates beyond the last update date

Verdict

Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries provides useful features for integrating AI summaries and social sharing, making it a practical choice for enhancing content visibility.

From the developer

Fernando Tellado's own description of Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries, lightly tidied.

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.
  • 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?

  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

Read the full description on the official page →

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