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These are features that you would most like to see included in future releases of Backdrop CMS.  All the issues you see here are issues tagged with the label "type - feature request" from the Backdrop CMS core issue queue. 

# GitHub Issue title Issue # Vote for this feature # of votes
901 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
902 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
903 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
904 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
905 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
906 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
907 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
908 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
909 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
910 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
911 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
912 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
913 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
914 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
915 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
916 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
917 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
918 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
919 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
920 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
921 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
922 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
923 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
924 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
925 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
926 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
927 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
928 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
929 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
930 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
931 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
932 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
933 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
934 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
935 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
936 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
937 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
938 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
939 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
940 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
941 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
942 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
943 Content creation page cleanup #202
944 Comment administration improvements #2919
945 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
946 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
947 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
948 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
949 Seventy two theme #5928
950 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
951 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
952 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
953 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
954 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
955 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
956 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
957 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
958 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
959 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
960 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
961 Trim textfields? #6386
962 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
963 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
964 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
965 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
966 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
967 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
968 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
969 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
970 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
971 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
972 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
973 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
974 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
975 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
976 Menu router refactoring #2400
977 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
978 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
979 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
980 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
981 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883

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