Spencer Brown

This plugin offers you the ability to add custom page template files to your WordPress installation without having to manage 
theme folders or use a ftp client. Simply upload the custom template file you have been working on and it will be registered 
with WordPress as a template option for your pages. This plugin is straight to the point and has a clean user interface using 
W3.CSS.
Plugin menu is located under ‘Appearance’ menu.
Attribution: This post online and code on github by wpexplorer: 
http://www.wpexplorer.com/wordpress-page-templates-plugin/ 
https://github.com/wpexplorer/page-templater

Custom Page Templates Setup

Easily add custom page templates without having to use ftp or keep track of changing themes.

nwells

Too many plugins installed to do basic things? This plugin tries to bring some common ones into one plugin to make life that little bit easier.
Current functionality
<ul>
<li>Identify the production URL so as to apply specific logic or hooks depending on which environment the site is in</li>
<li>Block visitors to the staging site based on IP or by using a specific cookie – great for showing clients but not the world</li>
<li>Find & replace functionality – great for changing from a staging URL to a production URL</li>
<li>Auto 301 redirect to the site domain for WordPress – useful to ensure everyone is using the correct path i.e. with www (or not) and https (or not)</li>
<li>Add additional classes to the main body tag to easily target device and operating system i.e. iOS, Android, Chrome, etc…</li>
<li>Sitemap generator to display a list of pages (or any post type) on the site as well as offering the ability to exclude pages</li>
<li>WooCommerce settings to disable categories list on single product page, remove reviews tab, remove product count on categories</li>
<li>When using Visual Composer you can automatically load in any PHP files that make use of vc_map() within your theme</li>
<li>When using Gravity Forms & Bootstrap all correct classes will be applied to input boxes and buttons. Also, a new field type is added to add columns to forms as well as placing the submit button wherever you like</li>
<li>Gravity Forms confirmation message appear underneath any fixed header when using AJAX. This hook allows you to scroll to the correct position based on the header</li>
<li>Can specify a stylesheet that you want to appear last in the enqueue – useful for overwriting parent themes or other plugins</li>
<li>YouTube embedded videos can have the title, related videos, and controls switched off</li>
<li>Change the sender name and email address for emails sent</li>
<li>Short code for displaying the current year – useful for keeping copyright notices up-to-date</li>
<li>WooCommerce template tweaks for improved usability when using the Jupiter theme</li>
<li>Set parent hierarchy pages as place holders so they don’t provide links in menus to empty pages</li>
<li>Simple short code for the current page title – useful to add in to links</li>
<li>Disable certain notifications for admin</li>
<li>Added Relevanssi support for XforWooCommerce filter plugin when AJAX is in use</li>
</ul>
Coming soon
<ul>
<li>Drag & drop page re-ordering</li>
<li>Improve noindexing on WooCommerce hidden products as well as ensuring the don’t appear in sitemaps both HTML & XML</li>
<li>Auto hide a page from any menu when its status is no longer published</li>
<li>Additional default settings for Visual Composer to make it easier to extend and remove built in elements & templates</li>
<li>More to come!</li>
</ul>

Apex Digital Toolbox

Too many plugins installed to do basic things? Bring some common functions ones into one plugin to make life that little bit easier for developers.

Custom Page Templates Setup vs Apex Digital Toolbox