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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 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
902 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
903 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
904 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
905 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
906 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
907 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
908 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
909 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
910 Allow regions titles #2647
911 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
912 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
913 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
914 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
915 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
916 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
917 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
918 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
919 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
920 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
921 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
922 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
923 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
924 uuid and entity import / export #890
925 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
926 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
927 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
928 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
929 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
930 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
931 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
932 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
933 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
934 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
935 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
936 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
937 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
938 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
939 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
940 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
941 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
942 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
943 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
944 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
945 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
946 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
947 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
948 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
949 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
950 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
951 Rename default Contact form category #4703
952 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
953 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
954 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
955 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
956 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
957 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
958 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
959 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
960 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
961 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
962 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
963 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
964 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
965 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
966 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
967 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
968 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
969 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
970 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
971 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
972 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
973 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
974 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
975 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
976 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
977 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
978 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
979 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
980 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
981 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
982 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
983 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
984 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
985 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
986 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875

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