Advanced Page Template is a nice new approach to custom fields by page template.
As of April 2026, Advanced Page Template is a WordPress page plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
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.
Open a template file with any text editor and add some additional templating comment lines starting with @custom_field keyword:
Example 1:
/* * Temp…
| WordPress | 3.0.0+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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