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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 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
902 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
903 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
904 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
905 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
906 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
907 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
908 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
909 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
910 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
911 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
912 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
913 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
914 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
915 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
916 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
917 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
918 Add layouts into the search index #5128
919 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
920 Allow regions titles #2647
921 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
922 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
923 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
924 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
925 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
926 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
927 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
928 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
929 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
930 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
931 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
932 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
933 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
934 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
935 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
936 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
937 Better Book navigation links #4879
938 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
939 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
940 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
941 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
942 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
943 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
944 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
945 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
946 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
947 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
948 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
949 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
950 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
951 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
952 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
953 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
954 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
955 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
956 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
957 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
958 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
959 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
960 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
961 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
962 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
963 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
964 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
965 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
966 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
967 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
968 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
969 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
970 [D8] Autosave content #3426
971 [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
972 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
973 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
974 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
975 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
976 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
977 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
978 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
979 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
980 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
981 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
982 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
983 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
984 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
985 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
986 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625

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