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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 the ability to order menus #3003
902 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
903 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
904 Use config for color module palettes #2554
905 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
906 More useful tags for views #6268
907 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
908 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
909 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
910 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
911 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
912 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
913 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
914 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
915 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
916 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
917 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
918 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
919 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
920 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
921 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
922 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
923 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
924 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
925 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
926 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
927 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
928 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
929 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
930 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
931 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
932 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
933 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
934 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
935 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
936 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
937 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
938 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
939 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
940 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
941 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
942 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
943 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
944 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
945 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
946 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
947 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
948 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
949 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
950 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
951 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
952 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
953 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
954 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
955 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
956 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
957 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
958 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
959 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
960 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
961 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
962 [UX] Decide when to add 'block' to the end of block admin titles, and do so consistently. #2255
963 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
964 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
965 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
966 Add an option (checkbox) in the layout settings for "Page title type" that enables/disables appending the " | [site-name]" part to the page <title>. #1790
967 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
968 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
969 Add layouts into the search index #5128
970 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
971 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
972 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
973 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
974 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
975 Evaluate the reasons for removal of the Trigger module from core. #2522
976 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
977 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
978 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
979 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993
980 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
981 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
982 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
983 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
984 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
985 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
986 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669

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