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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 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
202 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
203 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
204 [DX] Simplify getting and setting of values without using the 'und' data structure in entities #2240
205 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
206 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
207 [UX] Project Browser: Improve the project details modal. #1778
208 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
209 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
210 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
211 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
212 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
213 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
214 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
215 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
216 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
217 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
218 Add a new core theme #5175
219 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
220 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
221 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
222 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
223 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
224 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
225 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
226 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
227 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
228 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
229 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
230 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
231 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
232 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
233 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
234 Apply image style to default picture #4976
235 Create "Current Node" block #5774
236 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
237 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
238 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
239 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
240 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
241 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
242 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
243 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
244 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
245 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
246 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
247 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
248 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
249 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
250 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
251 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
252 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
253 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
254 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
255 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
256 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
257 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
258 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
259 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
260 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
261 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
262 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
263 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
264 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
265 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
266 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
267 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
268 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
269 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
270 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
271 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
272 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
273 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
274 Content creation page cleanup #202
275 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
276 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
277 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
278 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
279 Rename default Contact form category #4703
280 Seventy two theme #5928
281 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
282 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
283 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
284 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
285 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
286 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
287 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
288 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
289 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
290 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
291 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
292 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
293 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
294 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
295 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
296 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
297 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
298 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
299 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
300 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705

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