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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
501 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
502 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
503 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
504 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
505 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
506 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
507 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
508 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
509 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
510 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
511 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
512 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
513 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
514 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
515 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
516 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
517 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
518 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
519 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
520 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
521 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
522 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
523 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
524 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
525 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
526 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
527 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
528 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
529 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
530 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
531 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
532 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
533 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
534 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
535 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
536 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
537 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
538 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
539 Comment administration improvements #2919
540 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
541 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
542 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
543 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
544 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
545 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
546 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
547 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
548 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
549 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
550 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
551 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
552 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
553 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
554 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
555 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
556 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
557 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
558 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
559 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
560 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
561 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
562 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
563 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
564 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
565 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
566 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
567 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
568 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
569 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
570 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
571 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
572 Menu router refactoring #2400
573 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
574 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
575 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
576 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
577 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
578 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
579 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
580 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
581 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
582 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
583 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
584 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
585 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
586 Allow regions titles #2647
587 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
588 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
589 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
590 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
591 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
592 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
593 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
594 [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
595 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
596 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
597 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
598 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
599 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
600 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383

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