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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 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
702 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
703 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
704 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
705 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
706 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
707 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
708 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
709 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
710 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
711 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
712 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
713 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
714 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
715 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
716 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
717 Mobile first approach theme #4131
718 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
719 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
720 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
721 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
722 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
723 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
724 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
725 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
726 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
727 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
728 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
729 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
730 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
731 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
732 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
733 Use config for color module palettes #2554
734 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
735 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
736 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
737 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
738 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
739 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
740 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
741 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
742 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
743 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
744 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
745 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
746 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
747 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
748 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
749 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
750 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
751 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
752 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
753 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
754 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
755 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
756 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
757 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
758 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
759 [D8] Autosave content #3426
760 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
761 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
762 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
763 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
764 [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
765 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
766 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
767 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
768 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
769 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
770 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
771 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
772 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
773 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
774 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
775 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
776 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
777 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
778 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
779 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
780 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
781 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
782 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
783 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
784 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
785 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
786 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
787 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
788 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
789 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
790 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
791 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
792 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
793 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
794 Content creation page cleanup #202
795 Add global site logo token #5871
796 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
797 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
798 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
799 Rename default Contact form category #4703
800 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093

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