Since everyone else is posting their wish-list, here's mine. Use a database like SQLite so I can back-up a website into a ZIP without being concerned about kee

Since everyone else is posting their wish-list, here's mine. Use a database like SQLite so I can back-up a website into a ZIP without being concerned about keeping a separate MySQL database backup in sync. (I wrote about this three years ago: https://billpg.com/dear-wordpress-please-stop-using-mysql/ https://billpg.com/dear-wordpress-please-stop-using-mysql/ ) Include TOTP one-time-password login in the core. (I hate having to deal with plug-ins.) Full backup in the core. When triggered by cron, save a complete backup to some folder. The setup, once the DB is configured, would have a option to restore from a backup, including populating the database, themes, wp-content, etc. Skip doing a backup if nothing has changed since the last one. Make multi-site easier. There's so many steps where I have to paste stuff into config files. Instead, have all of it ready for me to create a new site and if I never stray into that section and create a new site, no problem. Lose the URL settings and work it out from the request. If a request (after URL rewriting) comes in looking like example.com/thing/index.php?abc=xyz, then you know what the base URL is. If I install wordpress as localhost:8080 and suddenly requests start coming in as example.com:443, I really don't want a redirect back to localhost:8080.