| #9547 | Taxonomy - interesting 'unused' term_order column in table term_relationships. | | enhancement | high | Future Release | Taxonomy |
| #35827 | Customizer: Create a dropzone for adding images | | enhancement | high | Future Release | Customize |
| #40175 | Upload Validation / MIME Handling | | defect (bug) | high | Future Release | Media |
| #45407 | Add block attributes to `wp_calculate_image_sizes` to allow for proper handling of `sizes` attribute | joemcgill | defect (bug) | high | Future Release | Media |
| #45795 | Twenty Nineteen: missing license information for assets | williampatton | defect (bug) | high | Future Release | Bundled Theme |
| #56780 | shortcode block in block-based template part in a classic theme does not get expanded | costdev | defect (bug) | high | Future Release | Editor |
| #2691 | HTML comments in posts aren't handled properly. | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Formatting |
| #3260 | XML output (rss, atom, rdf ...) should always use UTF-8 or CDATA for user input | stevenkword | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Feeds |
| #4969 | Make wp_list_* functions all behave similarly... | igmoweb | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Themes |
| #5358 | Queried object on multiple tag query holds only first tag | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Taxonomy |
| #6425 | Support for RTL in feeds | | enhancement | normal | Awaiting Review | Feeds |
| #6814 | Async media crunching | adamsilverstein | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Upload |
| #7795 | Activate and Deactivate Theme hooks | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Themes |
| #7797 | Consolidate iframe headers | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Administration |
| #8905 | Category pagination broken with certain permalink structures | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Permalinks |
| #9102 | Inverse proxy breaks permalinks | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Permalinks |
| #9257 | EXIF GPS data | | enhancement | normal | Awaiting Review | Media |
| #9825 | Enforce permalink history, outright | | enhancement | normal | | Permalinks |
| #9978 | Sticky Posts are not ordered correctly after selection | | enhancement | normal | | Query |
| #9993 | Rss and atom feeds are dropping some characters | | defect (bug) | normal | Awaiting Review | Feeds |
| #10230 | get_pages function: number and child_of parameters conflict | | defect (bug) | normal | | Posts, Post Types |
| #10762 | Bulk editing creates invalid URIs | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Quick/Bulk Edit |
| #10883 | db-error.php not used for all DB failures | | enhancement | normal | | Database |
| #10931 | Verify Comment Email Addresses of Registered Users | adamsilverstein | enhancement | normal | 6.9 | Comments |
| #10984 | If content uses the nextpage tag then only the first page is shown in feeds | | defect (bug) | normal | | Feeds |
| #11248 | Paged wp_list_comments() should always output something | boonebgorges | defect (bug) | normal | | Comments |
| #11398 | new sort method for query_posts (order by last comment date) | | enhancement | normal | | Query |
| #11585 | WordPress should cache failed feed fetches so as to avoid overloading feed sources | pbearne | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Feeds |
| #11697 | Keep private posts in the admin area / Was: Make private posts a canonical plugin | | defect (bug) | normal | | Posts, Post Types |
| #12257 | wpdb Scales Badly Due to Unnecessary Copies of All Query Results | | defect (bug) | normal | | Database |
| #12363 | Comment permalink wrong when only listing one comment type | wonderboymusic | defect (bug) | normal | | Comments |
| #12634 | Media Library & Permalink Overlap | | defect (bug) | normal | | Permalinks |
| #12671 | Installer page doesn't check if MySQL tables were created successfully | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Upgrade/Install |
| #12682 | Multiple password reset emails can be annoying | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Users |
| #12684 | Add Edit to Bulk Actions menu on Categories screen | dipalidhole27gmailcom | feature request | normal | Future Release | Quick/Bulk Edit |
| #12726 | Add get_post_by_*() functions | | enhancement | normal | | Posts, Post Types |
| #12779 | Better support for custom post types in WP_Rewrite | | enhancement | normal | | Rewrite Rules |
| #12934 | Allow a menu to be added as a menuitem to be a submenu. | | enhancement | normal | | Menus |
| #13103 | "Unknown character set" during install into database reports successful install. | barrykooij | defect (bug) | normal | | Database |
| #13363 | Edit Comments: Pending > Approving shouldn't make them disappear from screen | wonderboymusic | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Comments |
| #13459 | Conflict between post and page slugs/permalinks when permalink setting is set to /%postname%/ | petitphp | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Permalinks |
| #13867 | New filter for comment RSS feed's title | killua99 | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Feeds |
| #13874 | Add package argument to "_deprecated_function" function | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Bootstrap/Load |
| #14017 | New template "tag": get_custom_field() | obenland | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Posts, Post Types |
| #14050 | shortcode_unautop() should also remove the <br /> added after shortcodes | aaroncampbell | defect (bug) | normal | | Formatting |
| #14172 | Implement $scheme in site info in ms-sites edit site | | enhancement | normal | | Networks and Sites |
| #14254 | update_meta_cache fails; query too large? | pbearne | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Cache API |
| #14432 | Role-based help text | garyc40 | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Help/About |
| #14808 | Add Editor Documentation Functions URL for theme-defined functions | adamsilverstein | enhancement | normal | Future Release | General |
| #14981 | Provide a context for post statuses | rockwell15 | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | I18N |
| #15204 | JavaScript Validation should trim values and set focus on invalid field | | enhancement | normal | | Taxonomy |
| #15317 | My Sites limited to 23 sites on Admin Bar | morganestes | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Toolbar |
| #15565 | More context for clean_post_cache() | spacedmonkey | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Cache API |
| #15667 | wp_list_pages, if it finds no pages to display, shows random child pages instead because of a bug in get_pages() | jackreichert | defect (bug) | normal | | Query |
| #15760 | LiveJournal Importer mishandles some <lj-cut> and <lj user=""> expressions | westi | defect (bug) | normal | WordPress.org | Import |
| #15761 | Bulk editing on posts without Javascript enabled results in the post being set to draft | garyc40 | defect (bug) | normal | | Quick/Bulk Edit |
| #15801 | Network Admin: Deactivated / Deleted inconsistency | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Networks and Sites |
| #15855 | Dropdown isn't shown when doing a user 'removal' | | defect (bug) | normal | | Users |
| #16165 | Media Library Bulk Delete: Error in deleting... | nacin | enhancement | normal | | Media |
| #16706 | Queries using "category__and" are slow on large databases | chriscct7 | enhancement | normal | | Query |
| #16853 | Error 500 when a user has too many sites | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Networks and Sites |
| #16980 | Empty Values are ignored by class-ixr.php | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | XML-RPC |
| #17077 | Page parent li elements in nav menus not always given current-page-parent class | | defect (bug) | normal | | Menus |
| #17301 | Keep the connection open when doing upgrades or long-running operations | dd32 | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Upgrade/Install |
| #17374 | get_pages() with child_of forgets sort | DrewAPicture | defect (bug) | normal | | Posts, Post Types |
| #17904 | Multisite has more restrictions on user login character set | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Login and Registration |
| #17905 | Multisite doesn't delete a user's posts/links upon removal | | defect (bug) | normal | | Users |
| #18146 | Add user-level & front end timezone display flexibility according to a fixed time [GMT:0] | | feature request | normal | Future Release | Date/Time |
| #18209 | Capabilities with misplaced dependencies in edit_theme_options | | defect (bug) | normal | Awaiting Review | Menus |
| #18408 | Can't wp_reset_postdata after custom WP_Query in an admin edit page | audrasjb | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Query |
| #18448 | wp_insert_category() is Not Properly Abstracted | chriscct7 | defect (bug) | normal | | Taxonomy |
| #18523 | Can't change page permalink if slug metabox is removed | helen | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Permalinks |
| #18549 | wp_texturize incorrectly curls closing quotes after inline HTML end tags | miqrogroove | defect (bug) | normal | | Formatting |
| #18660 | Enhance rel_canonical function, add filter | joostdevalk | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Canonical |
| #18836 | ORDER BY RAND() is slow | pbearne | enhancement | normal | 6.9 | Query |
| #18857 | get_plugin_page_hookname uses menu_title to construct subpage load-hooks | chriscct7 | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Plugins |
| #18877 | DRY up rewrite rule matching | ericlewis | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Rewrite Rules |
| #18947 | get_intermediate_image_sizes() should also contain width/height/crop values as sub array | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Media |
| #19272 | Add Filter to Nav Menu Support Themes Text | bhargavbhandari90 | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Menus |
| #19627 | Themes should be able to opt-in to a static front page | | feature request | normal | | Themes |
| #19711 | Posts edit list window display no information about filtering | chriscct7 | enhancement | normal | | Posts, Post Types |
| #19826 | Error behavior for deleting trashed posts is different for Bulk Delete versus Empty Trash | piontkowski | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Posts, Post Types |
| #19867 | wp_dropdown_users() still not scalable | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Users |
| #20241 | make it possible for plugins to activate other plugins | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Plugins |
| #20716 | Control how and when request_filesystem_credentials outputs creds form | dd32 | enhancement | normal | | Filesystem API |
| #20853 | get_post_custom show directly serialized data from the post_meta arrays. | | defect (bug) | normal | | Options, Meta APIs |
| #21256 | New theme feature - add_theme_support( 'content-width', $defaults ) | chriscct7 | feature request | normal | Awaiting Review | Themes |
| #21292 | XML-RPC: wp_upload_bits should act like wp_handle_upload | | defect (bug) | normal | | XML-RPC |
| #21432 | Deprecate *_blog_option() | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Options, Meta APIs |
| #21602 | redirect_canonical can lead to infinite loop on index navigation if site url is not all lower case | | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Canonical |
| #21666 | Customizer Revisions (previously reset/undo/revert) | melchoyce | feature request | normal | Future Release | Customize |
| #21790 | When set a static front page WP main query isn't set correctly | SergeyBiryukov | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Query |
| #22114 | Propagating password on change | chriscct7 | feature request | normal | 6.9 | Users |
| #22192 | update_option() strict checks can cause false negatives | joemcgill | defect (bug) | normal | Future Release | Options, Meta APIs |
| #22198 | Realigning the Discussions Settings page | chriscct7 | enhancement | normal | | Comments |
| #22249 | Add ability to set or remove attributes on enqueued scripts and styles. | | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Script Loader |
| #22277 | Admin (not just superadmin) should be able to add user without confirmation email in multisite | morganestes | enhancement | normal | | Users |
| #22845 | On 32-bit systems, with post IDs higher than PHP_INT_MAX (2147483647) wordpress does not run fine | | enhancement | normal | | Posts, Post Types |
| #22869 | Large Image Uploads Don't Error Well | | defect (bug) | normal | | Media |
| #22938 | Presentation of hierarchical taxonomy in Media modal should be checkboxes rather than comma-separated tag list | wonderboymusic | enhancement | normal | Future Release | Media |