AskThis AI Social Sharing

Description

AskThis adds a lightweight (<12KB) sharing widget to your posts, pages and WooCommerce products:

• Social share buttons — 28 networks, pick the ones you want: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, email, SMS and copy link; Line, VK, Viber, Weibo, Bluesky, Threads, Tumblr, Pocket, Hacker News, Flipboard and Xing; plus copy-to-app sharing for Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, WeChat, KakaoTalk and Mastodon.
• AI buttons — visitors send your page to any of 14 AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Consensus, SciSpace and Andi) with a neutral, citation-friendly prompt built for the page type.
• AI Graph meta tags (ai:type, ai:title, ai:summary, ai:cite_as, and product tags like ai:price and ai:availability) that tell AI answer engines how to read, summarize and cite your pages.
• WooCommerce and ecommerce aware: product pages automatically map title, price, currency, brand and stock status into the AI tags and prompts, so an AI answering “is this the right product for me” reads accurate e-commerce data instead of guessing.

AI SEO / answer engine optimization. Search is shifting from ten blue links to answers
written by AI. AskThis gives you both halves of that: AI Graph meta tags describe your page
in a vocabulary answer engines can read, so you are summarized accurately and cited by name
rather than paraphrased away — and the AI share buttons let a reader carry your page into
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity with a prompt that asks the engine to cite the source.
This is what AI SEO, answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization
(GEO) describe: being readable, quotable and attributable to machines, not just to people.
In practice it means AI visibility in AI search — an LLM that reaches your page can identify
what it is, summarize it faithfully and produce an AI citation pointing back to you, which is
the difference between traffic from search engines and being quietly absorbed into an answer.

The widget loads asynchronously from a CDN and never blocks page rendering, and works with classic and block themes.

Cache friendly. Changing a setting clears the page cache for you — AskThis triggers a purge in LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and SG Optimizer, so you never have to wonder why a layout change did not appear on the front end.

Place it automatically after your content, or manually with the AskThis Share Widget block, the [askthis] shortcode, or the classic AskThis Share Widget widget in any widget area.

External services

This plugin connects to AskThis (askthis.io), the service that powers the
sharing widget and its analytics. An AskThis account and Site ID are required
for the plugin to do anything.

Three separate connections are made:

1. Widget script — cdn.askthis.io
   On every page where the widget is enabled, the visitor’s browser loads
   https://cdn.askthis.io/widget.js. No data is sent by the plugin; this is a
   script request, so the visitor’s IP address and user agent reach AskThis as
   they would with any externally hosted script.

2. Site ID verification — api.askthis.io
   When an administrator saves the plugin settings, the site makes one
   server-side request to https://api.askthis.io/api/v1/sites/{site-id}/config
   to confirm the Site ID is valid. Only the Site ID is sent. No visitor data
   and no site content are included. If the request fails the setting is still
   saved; verification is advisory.

3. Interaction analytics — ingest.askthis.io
   When a visitor views or interacts with the widget, the widget sends event
   data to https://ingest.askthis.io. Each event contains: the event type
   (view, share, ai_click, question), your Site ID, the platform or AI engine
   chosen, the URL of the page, and a timestamp. If a visitor types a question
   into the AI panel, that question text is included. Events are batched in the
   browser and sent periodically, not on every interaction.
   AskThis derives a pseudonymous identifier at its edge for deduplication. The
   plugin itself stores nothing about visitors and sets no cookies.

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