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AskThis adds a lightweight (<12KB) sharing widget to your posts, pages and WooCommerce products:
- AI share 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.
- 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 Graph meta tags (
ai:type,ai:title,ai:summary,ai:cite_as, and product tags likeai:priceandai:availability) that tell AI answer engines how to read, summarize and cite your pages. - One-click setup — press Connect to AskThis and the plugin creates (or signs you in to) a free AskThis account and fills in your Site ID for you. Nothing to copy across by hand.
- 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.
Four separate connections are made:
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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
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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
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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
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Connecting your site — askthis.io and api.askthis.io
Only when an administrator presses “Connect to AskThis”, the browser is sent
to https://app.askthis.io/connect carrying this site’s address and the
signed-in administrator’s email address. On that page you sign in to AskThis
(or create a free account) and approve the connection; approving it creates
an AskThis account and a site record for this address if you do not already
have them. You are then returned here with a single-use code, which this site
exchanges once, server-side, at https://api.askthis.io/api/v1/connect/exchange
for your Site ID. Nothing is sent unless you press the button, and no
WordPress password, user list or content is included at any point.
You can instead skip this entirely and paste a Site ID by hand.
Service provided by Agochar Tech LLP.
Terms of service: https://askthis.io/legal/terms/
Privacy policy: https://askthis.io/legal/privacy/
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- AskThis Share Widget Places the AskThis social + AI sharing widget at this spot in the content.
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- Install via Plugins Add New and search for AskThis, or upload the plugin zip (it unpacks to
askthis-ai-social-sharing/in/wp-content/plugins/). - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
- Go to Settings AskThis and press Connect to AskThis. You will be sent to askthis.io to approve the connection — sign in, or create a free account in a few seconds — and brought straight back with your Site ID filled in.
- Choose layout, networks, AI platforms and theme. Done — the widget appears after your content.
Already have a Site ID? You can skip the connection and paste it into the Connection section by hand instead.
To place the widget manually, disable “Auto-insert” and use the AskThis Share Widget block (or [askthis]) wherever you want it.
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Do I need an AskThis account?
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Yes, and the free one is enough to start. Pressing Connect to AskThis creates it for you (or signs you in to the one you already have) and fills in your Site ID. The account is what your share and AI buttons report to, which is how you get analytics.
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How do I sign in to AskThis afterwards?
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At app.askthis.io with the email and password you chose while connecting, or with Google, GitHub or Microsoft if you used one of those. The plugin never sets or stores a password — you create the account yourself on askthis.io, so the credentials are yours and are managed there, including password resets.
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What does the plugin send when I press Connect?
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Your site address and the email address of the administrator who pressed the button, and nothing else — no WordPress password, no user list, no post content. It is sent only on that click; the plugin transmits nothing on activation. You can edit the email on the AskThis page before approving.
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Can I use this on more than one site?
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Yes, though how many depends on your AskThis plan: the free plan covers one site, Pro covers five, and Business and above are unlimited. Each site gets its own Site ID, settings and analytics under the same account. If you connect a second site on the free plan the connection is refused with a message telling you so — nothing breaks.
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Does it work on WordPress multisite?
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Yes. Settings are per site, which is what you want: each site in the network is a separate site in AskThis with its own Site ID, its own buttons and its own analytics. Network-activate the plugin, then connect each site from its own Settings AskThis. There is no network-wide settings screen, and one subsite’s configuration never affects another’s.
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How do I disconnect, and does it delete anything?
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Settings AskThis Disconnect. It only switches the widget off on this site: your site, its settings and its history stay in your AskThis account, so reconnecting later picks up exactly where you left off. Deleting the plugin removes its options from WordPress and likewise leaves your AskThis account untouched.
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Does the plugin slow my site down?
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No. One async script tag is added; nothing render-blocking, no jQuery, no external CSS. If the CDN is unreachable the page renders normally without the widget.
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Does it work with WooCommerce?
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Yes. Product pages get a product-type prompt and additional AI Graph tags: price, currency, brand (from the
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Does it track my visitors?
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The plugin itself stores nothing about visitors. The widget records pseudonymous, consent-gated interaction events only (no names, emails or IPs), per the AskThis privacy policy.
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Can I change the CDN URL?
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Where does the widget appear?
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On single posts (article prompts), pages (generic prompts) and WooCommerce products (product prompts). Archives, feeds and embeds are excluded.
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“AskThis AI Social Sharing” ແມ່ນຊອຟແວໂອເພັນຊອດ (Open Source). ບຸກຄົນຕໍ່ໄປນີ້ໄດ້ມີສ່ວນຮ່ວມໃນການພັດທະນາປລັກອິນນີ້.
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ແປ “AskThis AI Social Sharing” ເປັນພາສາຂອງເຈົ້າ.
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0.1.4
- Fixed: the widget now appears when you place the AskThis Share Widget block or the
[askthis]shortcode on a page where auto-insert is switched off, or on a custom post type. Previously the spot stayed empty with nothing to explain it. - Connect links now stay valid for an hour, so a slower confirmation email no longer strands you part-way through setting up a new account.
- New: a Site Health check that tells you when AskThis is not connected, or when your server cannot reach it — the plugin used to fail silently in both cases.
- New: an AskThis panel in Tools Site Health Info, with the details support asks for first.
- New: suggested privacy-policy text, available under Settings Privacy Policy Guide, describing what the widget sends and to whom.
- Setup instructions and FAQ rewritten around one-click Connect, including what is sent, how to sign in, multisite, and how many sites each plan allows.
0.1.3
- New: Connect to AskThis — one button creates (or signs you in to) your free AskThis account and fills in your Site ID for you. No more copying it across from the dashboard.
- New: a get-started panel and an activation notice, so a fresh install says what it needs instead of showing an empty Site ID box.
- New: a connected status card showing which AskThis workspace and plan this site is attached to, with a Disconnect button.
- Disconnecting only switches the widget off here — your site and its history stay in your AskThis account, so reconnecting picks up where you left off.
- Clearer messages when a connection cannot be completed, each saying what to do next.
0.1.2
- Listing screenshots replaced: the widget on a real post, the settings screen, the button pickers and the editor block — all captured in a real WordPress admin.
- Fixed the Plugin URI, which pointed at a page that did not exist.
- Corrected the manual-install folder name in the installation steps.
- Tested against WordPress 7.1.
- Translation template regenerated — 13 admin strings added in 0.1.1 were missing from it and could not be translated.
0.1.1
- The settings screen’s layout CSS now loads through
wp_add_inline_style()onadmin_enqueue_scriptsinstead of a printed style tag, and only on that screen.
0.1.0
- Initial release.
- Settings screen (Settings AskThis): site ID (verified against the AskThis API on save), layout, networks, AI platforms, theme, position, auto-insert.
- “Unlock premium AI features” panel linking to plan & billing on the AskThis dashboard — paid features apply to your site automatically once you upgrade.
- Async widget injection with the WordPress 6.3 loading strategy (manual async attribute on 6.0–6.2).
- AI Graph v1.0 meta tags for posts, pages and WooCommerce products (incl. price, currency, brand, availability, category path, published/updated dates, language and author).
- Gutenberg block
askthis/share-widget,[askthis]shortcode, and a classic widget-area widget.