Alfredo Barbosa

Customizing provides a nice interface for you to create custom post types, taxonomies and fields (meta boxes).
You’ll find the Customizing tools in the ‘Customizing’ menu.
In the ‘Custom Box’ screen, you may show and hide groups of fields, and order them the way you like.
All the settings are based on the WordPress API settings, therefore, the oficial guides apply to them.
<h3>Known Problems</h3>
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<li>Custom boxes and user boxes won’t work if you have taxonomy terms with quotes.</li>
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Customizing – Post Types, Taxonomies & Fields

Custom post types, taxonomies and fields for WordPress.

FuzzGuard

This plugin allows you to show posts on the dashboard based on a POST STATUS. This can be the default post status from wordpress such as: 
Publish 
Future 
Draft 
Pending 
Private 
Trash 
Auto-draft 
Inherit
This plugin will also allow you to view posts based on any post status that is registered with wordpress. Such as POST types created by a plugin.
You can also add multiple widgets to the dashboard. This allows you to monitor multiple post types in different widgets.

Post Status Dashboard

This plugin allows you to show posts on the dashboard based on a POST STATUS.  This can be the default post status from wordpress such as:

Customizing – Post Types, Taxonomies & Fields vs Post Status Dashboard