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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
601 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
602 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
603 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
604 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
605 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
606 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
607 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
608 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
609 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
610 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
611 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
612 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
613 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
614 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
615 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
616 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
617 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
618 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
619 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
620 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
621 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
622 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
623 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
624 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
625 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
626 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
627 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
628 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
629 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
630 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
631 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
632 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
633 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
634 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
635 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
636 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
637 Comment administration improvements #2919
638 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
639 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
640 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
641 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
642 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
643 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
644 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
645 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
646 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
647 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
648 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
649 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
650 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
651 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
652 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
653 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
654 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
655 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
656 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
657 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
658 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
659 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
660 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
661 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
662 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
663 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
664 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
665 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
666 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
667 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
668 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
669 Menu router refactoring #2400
670 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
671 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
672 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
673 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
674 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
675 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
676 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
677 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
678 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
679 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
680 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
681 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
682 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
683 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
684 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
685 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
686 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
687 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
688 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
689 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
690 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
691 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
692 [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
693 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
694 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
695 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
696 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
697 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
698 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
699 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
700 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946

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