Advanced Page Template is a nice new approach to custom fields by page template. 
Please try to configure the custom fields easily in the template file itself using this plugin.
It doesn’t require to save any configuration data to database, just config the custom fields in template file itself as how wordpress recognize the templates – Its just wordpress way!
I think that it makes developing and deploying more easy and more sense for the developers. 🙂
Note: I highly recommend you to install and activate Advanced Custom Fields plugin so as to get its perfect benefit. Field Types only works with Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Open a template file with any text editor and add some additional templating comment lines starting with @custom_field keyword:
Example 1:
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/*
* Template Name: 2column-layout
*
* @custom_field main, type: wysiwyg, label: Main content
* @custom_field sidebar, type: wysiwyg, label: Sidebar
*/
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Example 2:
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/*
* Template Name: Contact Page
*
* @custom_field photo, type: image, label: Photo of manager
* @custom_field phone, type: text
* @custom_field map, type: google_map
* 
* Note: The photo, phone, map are the custom field names in each '@custom_field' line,
* therefore use wordpress's 'get_post_meta' or ACF's 'get_field' method with those custom field names to get the values in this template. :)
*/
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Please bring the page edit link up in the backend and select the template which you just edited and hit ‘Update’ or ‘Save’ button. 
After page refreshing, You can’t miss new custom fields block from this template file.
Available Types and options with Advanced Custom Fields plugin are:
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/*
* @custom_field tab1, type: tab, instructions: Tab

* @custom_field field1, type: checkbox, choices: (1|2|3), label: Checkbox
* @custom_field field2, type: color_picker, label: Color Picker
* @custom_field field3, type: email, label: Email
* @custom_field field4, type: file, label: File
* @custom_field field5, type: google_map, label: Google map
* @custom_field field6, type: image, label: Image
* @custom_field field7, type: message, message: Message goes right here, label: Message
* @custom_field field8, type: number, label: Number
* @custom_field field9, type: page_link, label: Page link
* @custom_field field10, type: password, label: Password

* @custom_field tab2, type: tab, label: Tab

* @custom_field field11, type: post_object, label: Post object
* @custom_field field12, type: radio, choices: (1|2|3), label: Radio
* @custom_field field13, type: relationship, label: Relationship
* @custom_field field14, type: select, choices: (1|2|3), label: Select
* @custom_field field15, type: taxonomy, label: Taxonomy
* @custom_field field16, type: text, label: Text
* @custom_field field17, type: textarea, label: Textarea
* @custom_field field18, type: true_false, label: True/False
* @custom_field field19, type: user, label: User
* @custom_field field20, type: wysiwyg, label: Wysiwyg
*/
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Advanced Page Template

Advanced Page Template is a nice new approach to custom fields by page template.

tommasomeli

Customize WordPress with Global Custom Fields! You can use GCF for example to create HTML + PHP shortcodes, global text fields, to save custom urls and retrieve them wherever you want and much more.
Add global fields in GCF Admin Page Create groups in the ‘Settings’ section and related fields in the ‘Fields’ section. Then edit the fields individually from the ‘GCF’ section.
Recover GCF with php Fields groups / single gcf can be retrieved anywhere within your theme / plugin with the function <code>get_gcf($group, $single = false, $eval = false)</code>
Show single GCF with a shortcode Load and display your single gcf with a shortcode! <code>[gcf group="group_name" field="field_name" eval=false]</code>
Each field is validated before saving. Add non-standard HTML tags and attributes in the “Settings” section if you need.
N.B. Use php “eval” only if you know what you’re doing. Save php fields using pseudo tags <code>[php] ... [/php]</code>
<a href="mailto:info@tommasomeli.it" rel="nofollow ugc">contact</a> me if you have any questions, issues, or suggestions. 
And leave a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/global-custom-fields/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">review</a> to grow the project!

Global Custom Fields

Create Global Custom fields and save them into WP Options, get them with PHP or use gfc Shortcode

Advanced Page Template vs Global Custom Fields