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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 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
202 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
203 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
204 [D8] Autosave content #3426
205 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
206 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
207 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
208 [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
209 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
210 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
211 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
212 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
213 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
214 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
215 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
216 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
217 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
218 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
219 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
220 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
221 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
222 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
223 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
224 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
225 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
226 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
227 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
228 Mobile first approach theme #4131
229 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
230 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
231 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
232 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
233 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
234 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
235 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
236 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
237 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
238 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
239 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
240 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
241 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
242 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
243 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
244 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
245 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
246 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
247 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
248 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
249 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
250 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
251 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
252 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
253 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
254 Create "Current Node" block #5774
255 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
256 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
257 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
258 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
259 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
260 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
261 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
262 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
263 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
264 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
265 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
266 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
267 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
268 Add state_override function to core #4725
269 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
270 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
271 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
272 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
273 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
274 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
275 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
276 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
277 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
278 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
279 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
280 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
281 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
282 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
283 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
284 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
285 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
286 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
287 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
288 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
289 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
290 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
291 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
292 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
293 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
294 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
295 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
296 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
297 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
298 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
299 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
300 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667

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