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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] More info on field removal #3262
902 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
903 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
904 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
905 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
906 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
907 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
908 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
909 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
910 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
911 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
912 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
913 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
914 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
915 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
916 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
917 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
918 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
919 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
920 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
921 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
922 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
923 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
924 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
925 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
926 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
927 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
928 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
929 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
930 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
931 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
932 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
933 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
934 Add function that returns default config #3251
935 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
936 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
937 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
938 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
939 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
940 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
941 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
942 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
943 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
944 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
945 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
946 Add global site logo token #5871
947 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
948 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
949 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
950 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
951 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
952 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
953 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
954 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
955 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
956 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
957 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
958 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
959 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
960 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
961 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
962 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
963 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
964 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
965 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
966 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
967 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
968 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
969 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
970 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
971 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
972 Remove syslog module from core #1260
973 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
974 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
975 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
976 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
977 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
978 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
979 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
980 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
981 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
982 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
983 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
984 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
985 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
986 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588

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