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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] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
202 [D8] Autosave content #3426
203 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
204 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
205 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
206 [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
207 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
208 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
209 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
210 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
211 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
212 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
213 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
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 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
219 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
220 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
221 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
222 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
223 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
224 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
225 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
226 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
227 Mobile first approach theme #4131
228 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
229 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
230 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
231 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
232 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
233 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
234 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
235 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
236 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
237 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
238 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
239 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
240 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
241 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
242 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
243 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
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 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
250 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
251 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
252 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
253 Create "Current Node" block #5774
254 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
255 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
256 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
257 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
258 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
259 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
260 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
261 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
262 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
263 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
264 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
265 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
266 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
267 Add state_override function to core #4725
268 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
269 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
270 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
271 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
272 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
273 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
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 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
281 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
282 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
283 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
284 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
285 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
286 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
287 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
288 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
289 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
290 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
291 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
292 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
293 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
294 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
295 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
296 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
297 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
298 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
299 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
300 Seventy two theme #5928

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