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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 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
602 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
603 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
604 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
605 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
606 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
607 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
608 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
609 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
610 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
611 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
612 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
613 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
614 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
615 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
616 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
617 Redirects write to json files? #4001
618 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
619 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
620 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
621 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
622 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
623 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
624 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
625 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
626 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
627 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
628 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
629 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
630 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
631 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
632 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
633 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
634 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
635 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
636 One click install for digitalocean #5628
637 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
638 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
639 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
640 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
641 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
642 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
643 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
644 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
645 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
646 Custom Block contextual link #4390
647 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
648 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
649 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
650 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
651 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
652 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
653 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
654 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
655 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
656 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
657 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
658 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
659 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
660 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
661 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
662 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
663 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
664 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
665 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
666 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
667 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
668 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
669 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
670 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
671 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
672 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
673 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
674 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
675 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
676 Comment administration improvements #2919
677 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
678 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
679 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
680 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
681 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
682 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
683 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
684 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
685 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
686 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
687 Apply image style to default picture #4976
688 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
689 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
690 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
691 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
692 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
693 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
694 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
695 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
696 [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
697 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
698 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
699 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
700 Add a new core theme #5175

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