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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
901 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
902 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
903 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
904 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
905 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
906 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
907 Use config for color module palettes #2554
908 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
909 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
910 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
911 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
912 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
913 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
914 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
915 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
916 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
917 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
918 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
919 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
920 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
921 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
922 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
923 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
924 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
925 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
926 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
927 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
928 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
929 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
930 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
931 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
932 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
933 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
934 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
935 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
936 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
937 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
938 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
939 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
940 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
941 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
942 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
943 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
944 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
945 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
946 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
947 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
948 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
949 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
950 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
951 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
952 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
953 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
954 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
955 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
956 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
957 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
958 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
959 [D8] Autosave content #3426
960 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
961 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
962 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
963 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
964 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
965 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
966 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
967 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
968 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
969 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
970 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
971 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
972 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
973 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
974 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
975 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
976 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
977 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
978 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
979 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
980 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
981 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
982 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
983 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
984 Mobile first approach theme #4131
985 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
986 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383

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