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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 Rename default Contact form category #4703
902 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
903 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
904 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
905 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
906 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
907 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
908 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
909 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
910 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
911 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
912 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
913 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
914 Create a printable Status Report #5821
915 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
916 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
917 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
918 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
919 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
920 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
921 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
922 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
923 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
924 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
925 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
926 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
927 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
928 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
929 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
930 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
931 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
932 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
933 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
934 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
935 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
936 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
937 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
938 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
939 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
940 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
941 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
942 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
943 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
944 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
945 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
946 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
947 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
948 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
949 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
950 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
951 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
952 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
953 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
954 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
955 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
956 Add layouts into the search index #5128
957 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
958 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
959 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
960 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
961 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
962 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
963 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
964 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
965 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
966 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
967 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
968 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
969 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
970 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
971 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
972 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
973 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
974 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
975 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
976 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
977 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
978 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
979 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
980 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
981 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292

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