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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] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
202 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
203 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
204 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
205 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
206 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
207 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
208 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
209 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
210 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
211 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
212 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
213 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
214 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
215 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
216 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
217 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
218 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
219 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
220 Mobile first approach theme #4131
221 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
222 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
223 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
224 Add layouts into the search index #5128
225 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
226 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
227 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
228 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
229 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
230 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
231 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
232 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
233 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
234 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
235 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
236 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
237 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
238 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
239 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
240 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
241 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
242 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
243 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
244 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
245 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
246 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
247 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
248 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
249 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
250 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
251 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
252 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
253 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
254 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
255 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
256 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
257 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
258 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
259 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
260 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
261 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
262 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
263 [WP] Media Library #3203
264 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
265 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
266 Seventy two theme #5928
267 Better Book navigation links #4879
268 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
269 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
270 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
271 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
272 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
273 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
274 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
275 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
276 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
277 [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
278 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
279 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
280 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
281 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
282 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
283 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
284 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
285 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
286 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
287 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
288 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
289 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
290 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
291 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
292 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
293 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
294 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
295 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
296 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
297 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
298 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
299 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
300 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721

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