Greenweb

All Pages before Posts does is move the Pages link above the Posts link in the admin menu column. So if you think Pages are more important to your site then Posts this plugin is for you.
You can even copy and paste the code from the plugin into your theme’s functions.php file if you don’t want to install another plugin

Pages before Posts

Lets put Pages First, in the admin menu that is.

mrwweb

This plugin is useful for people who regularly use all or most of the post statuses with Posts, Pages, or Custom Post Types. Post Status Menu Items does the following:
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<li>Show each post status and number of posts with that status (e.g. “Drafts (7)”) in each post type’s admin menu.</li>
<li>Show the number of Posts with each post status in the “Right Now” / “At a Glance” admin Dashboard Widget.</li>
<li>Show post status icons with each status at the top of admin post list pages.</li>
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Options give control over which post statuses are displayed and in which menus those statuses are displayed. Post statuses in the “Right Now” / “At a Glance” admin Dashboard widget can also be turned off.
Screenshots of all features and settings are available on <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-menu-items/screenshots/" rel="ugc">the Screenshots page</a>.
Notes
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<li>Plugin settings available on Settings > Writing.</li>
<li>Statuses with 0 posts are never displayed.</li>
<li>Posts are the only post type for which the post status menu items are enabled by default.</li>
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This plugin works with custom statuses created by <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-flow/" rel="ugc">Edit Flow</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/" rel="ugc">Archived Post Status</a>, <a href="http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/synchronized-json/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Custom Field PRO “Sync Available” status</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/" rel="ugc">Simple Page Ordering</a>, and <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/register_post_status" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>register_post_status()</code></a>.
<h4>Other Plugins by MRWweb</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-a-page-widget/" rel="ugc">Feature a Page Widget</a> – Shows a summary of any Page in any sidebar.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mrw-web-design-simple-tinymce/" rel="ugc">MRW Web Design Simple TinyMCE</a> – A compact page editor to encourage good formatting.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-archive-descriptions/" rel="ugc">Post Type Archive Description</a> – Enables an editable description for a post type to display at the top of the post type archive page.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hawaiian-characters/" rel="ugc">Hawaiian Characters</a> – Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Character Map for Hawaiian</li>
</ul>

Post Status Menu Items

Adds post status links–e.g. "Draft" (7)–to post type admin menus and a few other nice goodies.

Pages before Posts vs Post Status Menu Items