Son Do

<p>Floating Publish Button is perfect especially for editors who use the page and post editing interfaces more than regular administrators.</p>
<p>They’ll find this plugin extremely useful, since there won’t be any need to scroll up and hit Publish/Save every time they want to update the post, especially if it’s a really long post or a page with lots of metaboxes.</p>
<p>If this behavior is annoying for some users, it can easily be turned off from the user’s backend profile page.</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable/Disable settings in Admin > Users > Your Profile > Publish/Update button</li>
</ul>


Floating Publish Button

I'm working on a site with ACF custom fields to add sponsor logos to pages.  Some pages have dozens of sponsor logos so the pages get very long.  Having to scroll to the top of the page to update was a pain, but this plugin keeps the Publish metabox in sight.  And it still works in June 2017 :D

Still working :D

Should be in core

A WordPress plugin that alters the position and behavior of the Publish button, making it stick to the top of the page when scrolling down the page

Blackbam

<p>This Plugin improves the search for users in the WordPress backend significantly. It empowers admins to search for the first name, last name and email address of users instead of only their nicknames/nicenames.</p>
<p>It is also possible to search for custom user meta fields now.</p>
<p>Translations: English, German, Swedish</p>
<p>Plugin Homepage: http://www.blackbam.at/blackbams-blog/2011/06/27/wordpress-improved-user-search-first-name-last-name-email-in-backend/<br />
Special characters like quotes are escaped, problems with the query may apper when trying to search for other non-alphanumeric characters.</p>
<h3>1.2.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added translations and il8n (Mikael Grön <a href="mailto:jag@mikaelgron.se" rel="nofollow ugc">jag@mikaelgron.se</a>)<br />
(en_US, en_UK,sv_SE)</li>
<li>Added german translation (de_DE)</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Database compatibility improved.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Re-allowed special characters in keys, but strings are still escaped for safe queries.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Filter and test custom meta fields. Remove unallowed characters.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Case-insensitive matching.</li>
<li>Added Multisite support.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.2</h3>
<p>Fix issue where attempting to activate the plugin would throw an “Invalid Header” error</p>
<h3>1.1.1</h3>
<p>Minor changes.</p>
<h3>1.1</h3>
<p>Added options page to include custom user meta fields in the search.</p>
<h3>1.0.1</h3>
<p>Little code improvements.</p>
<h4>1.0</h4>
<p>Initial release to the Plugins directory.</p>


Improved user search in backend

Improves the search for users in the backend significantly: Search for first name, last, email and more of users instead of only nicename.

Floating Publish Button vs Improved user search in backend