I’ve tailored WordPress into a CMS and there’s some slight area’s that I’m not quite happy with in terms of the wording.
E.g The page attributes area on the right when editing a page, is it possible to change the wording of “Parent”, “Template” and “Order” and also add a little bit of help text.
The titles and help is all a bit techy, a lot of the people that will be using the CMS will be very basic users.
Ideally I’d like a plugin to make things a bit easier.
Unfortunately I’ve yet to see any ability to fully customize the default backend (without hacking core). This is one area that still bothers me about WP, especially when custom themes and forms for the admin feature are so well implemented in other systems like Drupal and Expression Engine.
With WP 3.x there are some hooks (filters) for some of the admin panel. A quick google will reveal instructions on a variety of ways.
http://www.thinkoomph.com/thinking/2010-06/customizing-wordpress-admin/
Check out the ‘White Label’ plugin (> 2.8)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/
You would have to change the relevant admin pages in the backend.
Or just an idea, create a new localization for the changes you wish to see, as most text in the backend are output using the localization function.