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
*/
</pre>
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.

Andy Fragen

Peter Westwood

Colin Stewart

Paul Biron

Maura Teal

This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.
Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.
By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.
For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.
Don’t forget to backup before you start!
Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.
<h3>Extra Settings</h3>
There is a setting to Skip successful autoupdate emails. It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process are sent.
There is a setting to Skip bundled plugins and themes. It functions to disable the installation of any plugins or themes that are bundled with the Core update.
PRs are welcome on <a href="https://github.com/afragen/wordpress-beta-tester" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

WordPress Beta Tester

This plugin works great, as advertised.

A lot of people complain that you can't revert the DB changes. I bet (hope) that they are not plugin developers. The plugin warns you about this. You are meant to keep a backup of your site first. If you are testing in a container such as docker or a VM, then it's even easier.

This highlights the issue that user reviews are not always reliable. A lot of users click on plugins and run arbitrary code on their sites without even reading the readme, then they come here and complain. Makes you wonder if there should be a feature on this site for users to rate the usefulness of reviews. Oh well, I'm getting side-tracked!

Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.


Must-have for any theme or plugin developer

When I activated my plugins page returns 503: Server runs out of time. Deactivated this plugin and all back to normal. Not recommended for 4.8.3!

Not recommended for 4.8.3

Great plugin to install beta releases for testing plugins and themes.
It would be helpful to see information about version numbers which will be installed.


Great for testing beta releases but missing information about version numbers


This is just brilliant. It allows anyone to test out the beta and see if everything works - Nice work here! I only found out about this from the WPBUILDS podcast - needs more promotion - its fantastic! 


What a fantastic facility!


As a plugin developer, I need this extension to be able to test my plugin against future versions before the officiale release.


Mandatory for a plugin developer!


Seems to work as expected. Great tool to test plugins before release and ensure they are compatible with the next Wordpress release. So thank you for the plugin. 


Great tool


Perfect for developers to test plugins with new versions of WP. 


Working great

Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.

Advanced Page Template vs WordPress Beta Tester