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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 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
202 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
203 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
204 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
205 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
206 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
207 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
208 [WP] Media Library #3203
209 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
210 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
211 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
212 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
213 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
214 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
215 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
216 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
217 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
218 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
219 Mobile first approach theme #4131
220 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
221 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
222 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
223 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
224 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
225 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
226 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
227 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
228 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
229 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
230 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
231 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
232 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
233 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
234 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
235 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
236 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
237 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
238 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
239 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
240 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
241 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
242 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
243 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
244 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
245 Create "Current Node" block #5774
246 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
247 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
248 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
249 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
250 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
251 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
252 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
253 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
254 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
255 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
256 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
257 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
258 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
259 Add state_override function to core #4725
260 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
261 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
262 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
263 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
264 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
265 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
266 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
267 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
268 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
269 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
270 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
271 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
272 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
273 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
274 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
275 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
276 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
277 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
278 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
279 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
280 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
281 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
282 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
283 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
284 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
285 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
286 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
287 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
288 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
289 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
290 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
291 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
292 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
293 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
294 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
295 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
296 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
297 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
298 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
299 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
300 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352

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