Lightshare – Social & AI Share Buttons

Lightshare adds fast, customizable social and AI sharing buttons to WordPress without loading third-party SDKs, tracking scripts, icon fonts, or external APIs in the background.

Visitors can share an article through familiar social networks or open a prefilled prompt in ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI, Perplexity, or Grok to summarize and explore its content.

Social and AI sharing in one plugin

Social and utility buttons include Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, WhatsApp, Bluesky, Telegram, Threads, Mastodon, Email, and Copy Link.

AI buttons include:

• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Google AI
• Perplexity
• Grok

When a visitor clicks an AI button, Lightshare opens that service with a prompt containing the current page URL. The prompt asks the selected AI service to summarize or analyze the content.

The AI Association Text setting lets a site owner add helpful context to each AI prompt. Use {domain} as a placeholder for the current site domain. Lightshare does not call AI APIs and does not require API keys.

Key features

• Social and AI sharing buttons in one lightweight plugin
• No third-party scripts loaded on page view
• Inline SVG icons instead of an icon font
• Conditional frontend CSS and JavaScript
• Inline buttons before or after content
• Floating desktop and mobile sharing bars
• Optional scroll threshold for floating buttons
• Default, Rounded, and Circle button styles
• Brand, Dark, Gray, and White color schemes
• Gutenberg block and [lightshare] shortcode
• Support for posts, pages, and public custom post types
• Optional internal click counts and count threshold
• Optional UTM parameters
• Drag-and-drop network ordering
• Per-post network, placement, nudge-text, and disable controls
• Privacy-friendly Mastodon server chooser

Display Lightshare anywhere

Enable inline or floating buttons from Settings > Lightshare, use the Lightshare Buttons block, or add the shortcode:

Choose specific networks and a style:

The Gutenberg block supports a network list, label visibility, and custom label text. It is rendered server-side so its frontend output remains consistent.

Privacy and performance

Lightshare does not load external scripts, pixels, social SDKs, or icon fonts. It does not contact social or AI services in the background. A destination receives data only after a visitor intentionally clicks its button.

Built-in color themes use static, cache-friendly CSS. Assets are loaded only where Lightshare output is expected.

Click counts

Optional counts are recorded internally when a sharing button is clicked. They are click interactions, not confirmation that the visitor completed a share on the destination service. Lightshare does not request share-count data from social networks.

External services

Lightshare does not call third-party APIs in the background. External requests happen only when a visitor clicks a sharing button. Depending on the selected service, the destination may receive the current page URL, page title, featured image URL, or a generated AI prompt through URL parameters.

The plugin can connect to the following services:

• Facebook (facebook.com) for sharing links. Data sent on click: page URL. Terms: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php Privacy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

• X / Twitter (twitter.com and x.com) for sharing links/text and opening Grok prompts. Data sent on click: page title and page URL, or a generated Grok prompt containing the page URL. Terms: https://x.com/en/tos Privacy: https://x.com/en/privacy

• LinkedIn (linkedin.com) for sharing links. Data sent on click: page URL. Terms: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement Privacy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

• WhatsApp (api.whatsapp.com) for sharing links/text. Data sent on click: page title and page URL. Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service Privacy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy

• Pinterest (pinterest.com) for creating pins. Data sent on click: page URL, page title, and featured image URL when available. Terms: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/terms-of-service Privacy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

• Reddit (reddit.com) for sharing posts. Data sent on click: page title and page URL. Terms: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement Privacy: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy

• Bluesky (bsky.app) for sharing links/text. Data sent on click: page title and page URL. Terms: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos Privacy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy

• Telegram (t.me) for sharing links/text. Data sent on click: page title and page URL. Terms: https://telegram.org/tos Privacy: https://telegram.org/privacy

• Threads (threads.com) for sharing links/text. Data sent on click: page title and page URL. Terms: https://help.instagram.com/769983657850450 Privacy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/

• Mastodon (the server selected by the visitor) for sharing links/text. Data sent on click: page title and page URL. The selected server hostname may be stored in the visitor’s browser using local storage. Terms and privacy policy: provided by the selected Mastodon server.

• OpenAI ChatGPT (chat.openai.com) for opening a prefilled prompt. Data sent on click: generated prompt text containing the page URL and configured AI Association Text. Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/ Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/

• Google AI mode (google.com) for opening a prefilled query. Data sent on click: generated prompt text containing the page URL and configured AI Association Text. Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Perplexity (perplexity.ai) for opening a prefilled query. Data sent on click: generated prompt text containing the page URL and configured AI Association Text. Terms: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service Privacy: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy

• Anthropic Claude (claude.ai) for opening a new chat with a prefilled prompt. Data sent on click: generated prompt text containing the page URL and configured AI Association Text. Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

• Email client (mailto:) for composing an email draft. Data sent on click: page title as the subject and page URL as the body. This is passed to the visitor’s local email client.

Support

For support, feature requests, or bug reports, visit the Lightshare support forum.

License

Lightshare is free software released under the GPLv2 or later.