azurecurve

featured-image shortcode allows a floating featured image to be placed at the top of a post. Default settings can be entered to simplify the use of the plugin.
When used several parameters are available for use: 
1. image – to use an image other than the default 
2. title – set a title on the image (will appear in the tooltip) 
3. alt – enter the alt text for when the image cannot be displayed 
4. taxonomy – enter a category or tag name or slug to have a hyperlink added to the image 
5. is_tag – set to 1 for when the taxonomy should be a tag instead of a category
This plugin is multi-site compatible.
This plugin supports language translations. If you want to translate this plugin please sent the .po and .mo files to wordpress.translations@azurecurve.co.uk for inclusion in the next version (full credit will be given). The .pot fie is in the languages folder of the plugin and can also be downloaded from the plugin page on http://development.azurecurve.co.uk.
Current translations: 
Serbian (sr_RS) translation by Borisa Djuraskovic of <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Hosting Hub</a>

azurecurve Floating Featured Image

Shortcode allowing a floating featured image to be placed at the top of a post; this plugin is multi-site compatible.

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.

azurecurve Floating Featured Image vs Automatic Featured Image Posts