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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] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
902 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
903 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
904 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
905 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
906 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
907 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
908 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
909 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
910 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
911 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
912 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
913 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
914 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
915 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
916 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
917 Add global site logo token #5871
918 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
919 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
920 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
921 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
922 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
923 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
924 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
925 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
926 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
927 Custom Block contextual link #4390
928 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
929 Content creation page cleanup #202
930 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
931 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
932 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
933 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
934 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
935 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
936 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
937 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
938 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
939 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
940 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
941 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
942 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
943 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
944 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
945 Better Book navigation links #4879
946 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
947 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
948 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
949 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
950 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
951 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
952 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
953 More useful tags for views #6268
954 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
955 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
956 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
957 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
958 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
959 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
960 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
961 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
962 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
963 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
964 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
965 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
966 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
967 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
968 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
969 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
970 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
971 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
972 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
973 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
974 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
975 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
976 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
977 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
978 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
979 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
980 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
981 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
982 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
983 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297

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