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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 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
202 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
203 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
204 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
205 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
206 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
207 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
208 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
209 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
210 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
211 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
212 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
213 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
214 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
215 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
216 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
217 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
218 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
219 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
220 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
221 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
222 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
223 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
224 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
225 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
226 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
227 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
228 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
229 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
230 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
231 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
232 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
233 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
234 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
235 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
236 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
237 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
238 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
239 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
240 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
241 Content creation page cleanup #202
242 Comment administration improvements #2919
243 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
244 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
245 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
246 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
247 Seventy two theme #5928
248 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
249 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
250 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
251 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
252 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
253 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
254 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
255 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
256 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
257 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
258 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
259 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
260 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
261 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
262 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
263 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
264 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
265 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
266 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
267 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
268 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
269 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
270 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
271 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
272 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
273 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
274 Menu router refactoring #2400
275 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
276 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
277 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
278 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
279 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
280 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
281 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
282 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
283 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
284 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
285 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
286 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
287 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
288 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
289 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
290 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
291 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
292 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
293 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
294 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
295 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
296 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
297 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
298 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
299 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
300 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129

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