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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
701 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
702 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
703 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
704 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
705 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
706 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
707 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
708 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
709 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
710 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
711 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
712 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
713 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
714 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
715 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
716 [WP] Media Library #3203
717 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
718 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
719 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
720 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
721 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
722 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
723 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
724 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
725 Add a wrapper to make tables "responsive" #6008
726 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
727 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
728 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
729 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
730 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
731 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
732 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
733 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
734 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
735 Allow taxonomy term for layout block visibility #5612
736 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
737 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
738 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
739 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
740 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
741 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
742 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
743 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
744 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
745 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
746 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
747 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
748 [DX] Disabling a field should not update the weights of all fields #5755
749 Custom Block contextual link #4390
750 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
751 Status page: Provide information about the security coverage of the currently-installed minor version #5759
752 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
753 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
754 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
755 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
756 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
757 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
758 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
759 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
760 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
761 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
762 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
763 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
764 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
765 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
766 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
767 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
768 Use config for color module palettes #2554
769 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
770 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
771 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
772 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
773 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
774 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
775 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
776 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
777 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
778 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
779 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
780 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
781 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
782 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
783 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
784 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
785 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
786 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
787 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
788 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
789 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
790 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
791 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
792 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
793 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
794 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
795 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
796 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
797 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
798 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
799 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
800 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718

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