Description
Give your readers something to do. RealSmile drops a free, interactive face-analysis quiz straight into any post or page — visitors upload a photo and get an instant, measurement-based face rating, and they stay on your site the whole time. No API key, no account, no server costs. Just one shortcode.
It’s the kind of interactive content — a “how old do I look” quiz, an attractiveness test, selfie score, face symmetry check, or looksmax analyzer — that lifts time-on-page, shares, and return visits on beauty, grooming, dating, fitness, and self-improvement blogs. Think of it as an engagement widget that turns a passive read into a share-worthy result.
Six widgets, one shortcode:
[realsmile_widget type="looksmax"]— looksmaxxing test: 17-metric face analysis (symmetry, canthal tilt, jawline angle, golden ratio and more)[realsmile_widget type="age"]— NEW: “how old do I look?” age guesser (an honest age range, never a fake-precise number)[realsmile_widget type="smile"]— smile analyzer (Duchenne / genuine-smile detection)[realsmile_widget type="golden-ratio"]— golden ratio face measurement[realsmile_widget type="face-score"]— quick 0–100 face score[realsmile_widget type="rank"]— photo ranker (compare 2–6 photos, pick the best)
Why embed it:
- More engagement — an interactive quiz keeps readers on the page instead of bouncing; results are made to share
- Zero setup — no API key, no account, no server costs; it’s a single shortcode
- Zero page-speed cost — loads lazily in a sandboxed iframe, so your Core Web Vitals are unaffected
- Measurement-based, not a novelty quiz — the underlying impression model is validated, with published methodology (see below)
- Privacy-first — photos are processed in memory and deleted instantly; never stored, never used for training
Validated accuracy (and its honest limits):
The Face Score impression model behind these widgets was tested against a 5,500-face academic benchmark of human-rated photos, where its predictions correlate with averaged human ratings at r ≈ 0.8 — strong agreement by social-science standards. The full methodology is published at https://realsmile.online/research-base. That validation applies to the impression score specifically: the geometric measurements are honest rulers (not attractiveness verdicts), and the new age widget is an experimental photo read that always shows a range, never a fake-precise number — the widget itself says so.
Perfect for:
- Beauty, skincare & makeup blogs — a “rate my features” quiz readers love to share
- Men’s grooming & looksmaxxing sites — the full looksmaxxing test, on your own domain
- Anti-aging, skincare & wellness content — a “how old do I look?” quiz is the perfect interactive hook
- Dating & relationship blogs — a photo ranker for “which profile picture wins?”
- Fitness, glow-up & self-improvement content — an interactive before/after hook
- Any publisher who wants quiz-style interactive content without building one
Options:
height— iframe height in pixels (default 720):[realsmile_widget type="smile" height="640"]badge— a small visible “Free face analysis by RealSmile” credit renders under the widget by default; setbadge="no"to hide it
External Service Disclosure
This plugin embeds an iframe served by realsmile.online (the RealSmile face-analysis service). The iframe loads only on pages where you place the shortcode. When one of your visitors chooses to upload a photo inside the widget, that photo is sent to RealSmile for analysis, processed in memory, and deleted immediately after the facial landmarks are measured — it is never written to disk, never stored, and never used to train anything. No data is collected by the plugin itself, and nothing is sent anywhere until a visitor actively uses the widget.
- Service: https://realsmile.online
- Privacy details and methodology: https://realsmile.online/about
- Terms: https://realsmile.online/terms
Screenshots
Installation
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Add the shortcode to any post, page, or shortcode block:
[realsmile_widget type="looksmax"] - That’s it — no API key, no configuration.
FAQ
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What does this plugin actually do?
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It embeds a free, interactive face-analysis quiz on your site via a shortcode. A visitor uploads a photo and gets an instant, measurement-based result — a face rating, symmetry read, golden-ratio measurement, smile analysis, or a photo ranking — without ever leaving your page.
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What kind of site is this best for?
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Any blog where readers care about faces, photos, or appearance: beauty and skincare, men’s grooming and looksmaxxing, dating and relationships, fitness and glow-up, and self-improvement. It’s an easy way to add quiz-style interactive content that keeps visitors engaged on your page.
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How do I add the widget to a post?
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Paste the shortcode where you want the widget to appear, for example
[realsmile_widget type="looksmax"]. Changetypetoage,smile,golden-ratio,face-score, orrankto embed a different widget. Useheight="640"to adjust the size. -
How does the “how old do I look” widget work?
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A visitor uploads a photo and gets an estimated age range (for example “24–32”). It is deliberately labeled experimental and never shows a fake-precise single number — off-the-shelf age models have an error band of several years, and the widget is honest about that. Low-quality photos (face too small, off-angle) get retake guidance instead of a garbage number.
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Can I put more than one widget on a page?
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Yes. Each shortcode renders independently, so you can place several widgets in the same post if it fits your content.
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Does it slow my site down?
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No. The widget is a lazily-loaded iframe — it doesn’t load until it’s near the viewport, and analysis models load only when a visitor interacts with it. Your Core Web Vitals are unaffected.
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Is the face rating accurate, or just a random number?
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It’s measurement-based. The underlying impression model was tested against a 5,500-face academic benchmark of human-rated photos and correlates with averaged human ratings at r ≈ 0.8, with the methodology published at https://realsmile.online/research-base — it is not a random novelty quiz. The age widget is separate and explicitly experimental: it shows an honest range, not a validated score.
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Are my visitors’ photos stored?
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No. Photos are processed in memory and deleted instantly after measurement — never stored, never used for training. See the external-service disclosure above.
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Is it really free?
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Yes. The embedded tools are RealSmile’s free tier — a visitor gets their Face Score and top-3 strongest metrics at no cost, with no signup required. Visitors who want the full 17-metric report can choose to buy one on realsmile.online — your page just hosts the free widget.
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Can I remove the credit line?
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Yes:
[realsmile_widget badge="no"]. The credit is a small visible text link, on by default. -
Do I need an API key or account?
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No. There is no API key, no account, and no configuration — install, activate, and drop in the shortcode.
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Contributors & Developers
“Face Analysis Quiz & Age Guesser Widget — Interactive Content by RealSmile” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.1.0
- NEW:
[realsmile_widget type="age"]— a “how old do I look?” age-guesser widget. Shows an honest age range (never a fake-precise number), labels itself experimental, and gives retake guidance instead of a garbage read on low-quality photos. - Listing: added the published validation details (5,500-face academic benchmark, r ≈ 0.8 impression-model correlation, methodology at realsmile.online/research-base) with an honest note on what is and isn’t covered by that validation.
- Clarified exactly what the free tier includes (Face Score + top-3 metrics, no signup).
- Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0 (“Tested up to” refreshed).
1.0.1
- Refreshed the listing for clearer discovery (face rating / attractiveness test / looksmax) and expanded the FAQ for site owners.
- Added an optional, dismissible admin reminder to leave a review (no incentive, appears only after the widget has been active a while).
- Updated the outbound widget links to a consistent WordPress UTM source.
- Confirmed compatibility with current WordPress (“Tested up to” refreshed).
1.0.0
- Initial release: five embeddable widgets via one shortcode, lazy iframe, optional credit badge.