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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
201 Add state_override function to core #4725
202 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
203 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
204 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
205 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
206 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
207 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
208 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
209 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
210 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
211 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
212 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
213 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
214 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
215 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
216 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
217 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
218 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
219 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
220 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
221 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
222 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
223 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
224 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
225 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
226 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
227 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
228 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
229 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
230 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
231 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
232 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
233 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
234 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
235 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
236 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
237 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
238 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
239 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
240 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
241 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
242 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
243 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
244 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
245 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
246 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
247 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
248 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
249 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
250 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
251 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
252 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
253 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
254 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
255 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
256 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
257 Content creation page cleanup #202
258 Comment administration improvements #2919
259 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
260 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
261 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
262 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
263 Seventy two theme #5928
264 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
265 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
266 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
267 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
268 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
269 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
270 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
271 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
272 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
273 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
274 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
275 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
276 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
277 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
278 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
279 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
280 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
281 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
282 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
283 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
284 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
285 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
286 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
287 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
288 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
289 Menu router refactoring #2400
290 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
291 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
292 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
293 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
294 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
295 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
296 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
297 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
298 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
299 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
300 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532

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