Grégory Viguier

<h4>This plugin is not maintained anymore!</h4>
<p>Please see <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sf-archiver/" rel="ugc">my other plugin SF Archiver</a> which does quite the same thing.</p>
<h4>Description</h4>
<p>Sick of creating custom page templates with a specific loop for your custom post types?<br />
This plugin allows you to easily assign to a page your custom post types with a settings panel, like you can do with normal posts.</p>
<p>Go to Settings > Pages for C. Posts, all your public custom post types will be listed.<br />
You can choose the page where they will be displayed (of course), the number of posts per page, and also the template to use if needed (e.g. Page, Archive, Home page…). In most cases you don’t have to specify a template, just let it as it is (but this can be useful with some themes).<br />
You can also choose to display a custom post type on your home page: just specify the same page as you have chosen in Settings > Reading, and optionally, specify the “Home page” template.</p>
<p>Note that this plugin is not for creating a secondary loop in your page, it will replace the original loop.</p>
<p>This plugin is still in beta-test, so it may not work for everybody. So far, it works fine with WP 3.2.1 and TwentyEleven for me.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>


SF Pages For Custom Posts

Allows you to easily assign to a page your custom post types with a settings panel, like you can do with normal posts.

dauidus

<p>Add Post Type Instructions allows admins to easily set instructional context for metaboxes and more on pages, posts or custom post types.  Currently it supports adding instructional context in the following areas on the add/edit screen:</p>
<ul>
<li>above the title field</li>
<li>above the WYSIWYG editor</li>
<li>default content within the WYSIWYG editor</li>
</ul>
<p>and within the following metaboxes:</p>
<ul>
<li>publish</li>
<li>author</li>
<li>featured image</li>
<li>excerpt</li>
<li>trackbacks</li>
<li>custom fields</li>
<li>page attributes</li>
<li>categories</li>
<li>tags</li>
<li>post format</li>
<li>discussion</li>
<li>comments</li>
<li>revisions</li>
<li>slug</li>
</ul>
<p>APTI uses OOP standards to add options only for those metaboxes which are supported for each post type and to execute code only on those pages where it is needed.  It works especially well for sites with many custom post types that require content to be entered in a specific way (ie. when a post type requires a specific page template or when the absence of a featured image will break the intended look of a post).  Think of any theme or plugin that supports an image slider powered by a required featured image, and you can surely see where APTI can come in handy.</p>
<p>To be clear, APTI does absolutely nothing to the front-end of your site.  It simply adds instructional context to the add/edit page/post admin screen so your clients and site editors might better understand how content is to be added.</p>
<p>APTI works with multisite networks and allows users to define settings on a per-site basis.</p>
<h4>Coming soon</h4>
<ul>
<li>Translations – to submit a translation, please contact the author</li>
</ul>
<p>APTI will work with drag-n-drop builders such as Visual Composer, but the author cannot recommend its use with them.  This will be addressed in a future release.</p>
<h4>Suggestions are welcome</h4>
<ul>
<li>email the author at dave@dauid.us</li>
</ul>
<h4>Follow Development on Github</h4>
<ul>
<li>https://github.com/dauidus/add-post-type-instructions</li>
</ul>


Add Post Type Instructions

Absolutely fantastic, every design decision is spot on, looks like native WordPress.
Options to configure as you need per-post-type and being able to pre-populate the wysiwyg is a great optional bonus.
I have a site with multiple post types, many authors and some very specific posting requirements. Following instructions written elsewhere hasn't proven that effective but I'm confident having instructions directly next to the fields is going to make everything go so much more smoothly.



Brilliant

Allows admins to easily set instructional context for metaboxes and more on pages, posts or custom post types.

SF Pages For Custom Posts vs Add Post Type Instructions