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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] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
202 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
203 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
204 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
205 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
206 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
207 Double click prevention #6393
208 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
209 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
210 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
211 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
212 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
213 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
214 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
215 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
216 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
217 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
218 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
219 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
220 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
221 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
222 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
223 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
224 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
225 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
226 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
227 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
228 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
229 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
230 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
231 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
232 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
233 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
234 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
235 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
236 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
237 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
238 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
239 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
240 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
241 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
242 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
243 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
244 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
245 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
246 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
247 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
248 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
249 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
250 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
251 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
252 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
253 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
254 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
255 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
256 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
257 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
258 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
259 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
260 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
261 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
262 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
263 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
264 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
265 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
266 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
267 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
268 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
269 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
270 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
271 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
272 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
273 Apply image style to default picture #4976
274 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
275 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
276 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
277 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
278 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
279 Remove syslog module from core #1260
280 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
281 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
282 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
283 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
284 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
285 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
286 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
287 Add a new core theme #5175
288 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
289 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
290 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
291 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
292 Search terms along with nodes #3850
293 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
294 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
295 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
296 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
297 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
298 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
299 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
300 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780

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