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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
401 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
402 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
403 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
404 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
405 Create a printable Status Report #5821
406 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
407 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
408 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
409 [UX] Provide a report page that lists all configured paths where files are being saved. #4585
410 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
411 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
412 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
413 [WP] Media Library #3203
414 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
415 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
416 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
417 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
418 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
419 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
420 Add state_override function to core #4725
421 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
422 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
423 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
424 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
425 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
426 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
427 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
428 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
429 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
430 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
431 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
432 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
433 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
434 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
435 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
436 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
437 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
438 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
439 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
440 [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
441 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
442 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
443 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
444 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
445 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
446 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
447 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
448 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
449 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
450 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
451 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
452 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
453 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
454 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
455 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
456 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
457 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
458 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
459 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
460 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
461 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
462 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
463 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
464 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
465 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
466 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
467 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
468 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
469 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
470 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
471 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
472 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
473 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
474 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
475 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
476 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
477 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
478 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
479 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
480 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
481 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
482 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
483 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
484 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
485 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
486 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
487 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
488 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
489 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
490 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
491 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
492 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
493 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
494 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
495 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
496 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
497 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
498 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
499 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
500 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718

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