Jeremy Felt

Automatic Featured Image Posts creates a new post with a Featured Image every time an image is uploaded. Through the plugin settings page, you can set the image to publish and assign itself to one of your other existing custom post types and/or post formats.
The imagined use case is to make managing a large number of photos through WordPress a little more interesting and a little more fun.
After uploading 10, 100, or 1000 pictures from an event or vacation, you and other users can go through and spend the majority of your time adding content, tags, and titles to your photographs rather than going through a monotonous process creating new posts over and over again.
Settings are available for:
<ul>
<li>Default Post Status (draft, pending, published, private)</li>
<li>Default Post Type
<ul>
<li>Default is the WordPress post.</li>
<li>Can choose any custom post type registered in your WordPress installation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Default Post Format
<ul>
<li>Default is ‘standard’, which equates to none.</li>
<li>Other options are provided if registered by your theme</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Filters are available for:
<ul>
<li><code>afip_new_post_title</code> = Allow other functions or themes to change the post title before creation.</li>
<li><code>afip_new_post_category</code> = Allow other functions or themes to change the post categories before creation.</li>
<li><code>afip_new_post_content</code> = Allow other functions or themes to change the post content before creation.</li>
<li><code>afip_new_post_date</code> = Allow other functions or themes to change the post date before creation.</li>
<li><code>afip_post_parent_continue</code> = Allow creation of a new post when an image is inserted in an existing post.</li>
<li><code>afip_continue_new_post</code> = Allow other functions or themes to skip creation of a post.</li>
</ul>
Actions are available for:
<ul>
<li><code>afip_pre_create_post</code> = Runs immediately before each post is created for an image.</li>
<li><code>afip_created_post</code> = Runs after each image load is processed.</li>
</ul>
Feel free to <a href="https://github.com/jeremyfelt/Automatic-Featured-Image-Posts" rel="nofollow ugc">fork, submit issues, and/or contribute on GitHub</a>

Automatic Featured Image Posts

One of those plugins which make my life a lot easier. Yes, it's rather specific, but for those who want to use wordpress as a photoblog it's great.

On request though, could you update the "tested up to" tag in the readme? Wordpress.org complains it's too long ago since something changed and it doesn't show up anymore in the search results for new plugins. As it works quite nice under 4.9.1, a minor update would solve this issue.

Thanks!

If you need it, you need it!

Automatic Featured Image Posts creates a new post with a Featured Image every time an image is uploaded.

sverde1

Watermark RELOADED is a lightweight WordPress image watermark plugin that automatically adds a customizable text watermark to images when you upload them to your Media Library.
Use it to:
<ul>
<li>Protect your work from unauthorized reuse</li>
<li>Brand images with your site name, URL, or copyright notice</li>
<li>Keep control of your visual content with a simple, set-and-forget solution</li>
</ul>
You can:
<ul>
<li>Choose which image sizes to watermark: thumbnail, medium, large, full size</li>
<li>Customize text watermark font and color</li>
<li>Precisely control watermark position (corners, edges or centered) on the image</li>
<li>Preview your watermark before saving settings so you know exactly how it will look</li>
</ul>
The plugin adds:
<ul>
<li>A dedicated Watermark RELOADED settings page where you configure your watermark and see a live preview</li>
<li>A WordPress Dashboard widget that shows your current watermark settings and a preview of the watermark directly on the main Dashboard screen</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatic watermark on upload – newly uploaded images are watermarked immediately</li>
<li>Text watermarking – add copyright text, site name or any custom message</li>
<li>Custom fonts – upload your own TTF fonts to use for the watermark</li>
<li>Color picker integration – choose any text color for your watermark</li>
<li>Per-size control – enable watermarking only on selected image sizes</li>
<li>Live settings preview – see how your watermark text, color and position look in the plugin settings before they are applied to new uploads</li>
<li>Dashboard widget – quickly review enabled sizes, position, offset and a preview from the WordPress Dashboard</li>
<li>Simple, focused UI – no unnecessary settings, just what you need to protect your images</li>
</ul>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>You configure your watermark text, font, color, and position in Settings → Watermark Reloaded.</li>
<li>You choose which image sizes should receive the watermark.</li>
<li>When you upload a new image through the Media Library or post editor, Watermark RELOADED automatically applies the text watermark to the selected sizes.</li>
</ol>
Existing images in your Media Library are not modified – only new uploads are processed.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
To generate watermarks, your server must support:
<ul>
<li>PHP 5.3+</li>
<li>GD extension for PHP</li>
<li>FreeType Library (for rendering text)</li>
</ul>
If any of these are missing, the plugin will show an error message so you can contact your hosting provider.
<h3>Planned improvements</h3>
The following ideas are on the to-do list and may be implemented in future updates:
<ul>
<li>Additional bug fixes and compatibility adjustments</li>
<li>Smarter handling of small images where the watermark might overflow</li>
<li>Support for watermarking additional custom image sizes added by other plugins/themes</li>
<li>Image-size aware watermarks and more flexible positioning options</li>
</ul>

Watermark RELOADED

Automatically add customizable text watermarks to new images on upload to protect your WordPress media library.

Automatic Featured Image Posts vs Watermark RELOADED