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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
101 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
102 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
103 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
104 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
105 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
106 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
107 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
108 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
109 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
110 Mobile first approach theme #4131
111 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
112 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
113 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
114 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
115 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
116 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
117 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
118 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
119 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
120 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
121 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
122 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
123 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
124 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
125 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
126 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
127 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
128 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
129 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
130 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
131 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
132 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
133 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
134 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
135 Create "Current Node" block #5774
136 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
137 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
138 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
139 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
140 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
141 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
142 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
143 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
144 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
145 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
146 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
147 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
148 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
149 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
150 Add state_override function to core #4725
151 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
152 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
153 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
154 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
155 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
156 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
157 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
158 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
159 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
160 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
161 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
162 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
163 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
164 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
165 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
166 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
167 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
168 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
169 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
170 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
171 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
172 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
173 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
174 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
175 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
176 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
177 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
178 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
179 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
180 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
181 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
182 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
183 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
184 Seventy two theme #5928
185 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
186 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
187 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
188 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
189 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
190 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
191 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
192 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
193 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
194 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
195 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
196 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
197 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
198 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
199 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
200 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067

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