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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 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
902 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
903 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
904 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
905 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
906 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
907 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
908 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
909 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
910 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
911 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
912 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
913 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
914 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
915 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
916 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
917 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
918 Create a printable Status Report #5821
919 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
920 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
921 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
922 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
923 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
924 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
925 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
926 Comment administration improvements #2919
927 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
928 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
929 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
930 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
931 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
932 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
933 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
934 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
935 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
936 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
937 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
938 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
939 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
940 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
941 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
942 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
943 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
944 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
945 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
946 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
947 Redirects write to json files? #4001
948 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
949 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
950 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
951 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
952 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
953 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
954 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
955 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
956 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
957 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
958 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
959 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
960 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
961 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
962 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
963 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
964 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
965 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
966 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
967 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
968 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
969 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
970 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
971 Allow regions titles #2647
972 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
973 Custom Block contextual link #4390
974 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
975 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
976 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
977 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
978 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
979 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
980 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
981 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
982 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
983 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
984 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
985 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
986 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897

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