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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 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
902 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
903 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
904 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
905 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
906 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
907 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
908 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
909 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
910 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
911 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
912 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
913 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
914 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
915 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
916 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
917 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
918 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
919 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
920 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
921 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
922 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
923 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
924 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
925 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
926 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
927 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
928 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
929 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
930 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
931 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
932 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
933 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
934 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
935 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
936 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
937 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
938 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
939 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
940 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
941 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
942 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
943 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
944 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
945 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
946 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
947 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
948 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
949 Content creation page cleanup #202
950 Comment administration improvements #2919
951 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
952 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
953 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
954 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
955 Seventy two theme #5928
956 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
957 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
958 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
959 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
960 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
961 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
962 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
963 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
964 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
965 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
966 Trim textfields? #6386
967 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
968 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
969 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
970 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
971 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
972 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
973 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
974 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
975 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
976 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
977 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
978 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
979 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
980 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
981 Menu router refactoring #2400

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