Smashing Magazine recently posted some "power tips" for WordPress template developers to help them get the most of the frontend side of their sites (continued from this first part).

This article presents the second part of the article; it covers customizing basic content administration and adding features to the post and page editor in WordPress.

Broken up into two sections - Customizing Basic Content Administration and Adding Features to the Post & Page Editor, the topics covered in this post include:

• Customizing the Dashboard Widgets
• Dropping in Your Own Logo
• Hiding Fields Based on User Role
• Adding a Custom Meta Box
• Adding Custom Taxonomies