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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] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
902 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
903 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
904 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
905 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
906 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
907 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
908 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
909 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
910 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
911 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
912 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
913 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
914 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
915 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
916 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
917 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
918 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
919 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
920 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
921 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
922 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
923 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
924 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
925 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
926 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
927 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
928 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
929 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
930 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
931 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
932 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
933 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
934 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
935 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
936 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
937 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
938 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
939 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
940 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
941 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
942 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
943 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
944 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
945 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
946 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
947 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
948 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
949 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
950 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
951 Seventy two theme #5928
952 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
953 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
954 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
955 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
956 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
957 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
958 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
959 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
960 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
961 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
962 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
963 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
964 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
965 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
966 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
967 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
968 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
969 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
970 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
971 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
972 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
973 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
974 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
975 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
976 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
977 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
978 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
979 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
980 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
981 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
982 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
983 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
984 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
985 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
986 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337

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