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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 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
902 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
903 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
904 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
905 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
906 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
907 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
908 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
909 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
910 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
911 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
912 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
913 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
914 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
915 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
916 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
917 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
918 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
919 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
920 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
921 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
922 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
923 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
924 Allow regions titles #2647
925 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
926 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
927 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
928 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
929 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
930 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
931 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
932 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
933 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
934 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
935 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
936 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
937 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
938 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
939 Seventy two theme #5928
940 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
941 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
942 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
943 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
944 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
945 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
946 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
947 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
948 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
949 Trim textfields? #6386
950 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
951 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
952 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
953 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
954 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
955 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
956 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
957 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
958 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
959 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
960 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
961 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
962 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
963 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
964 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
965 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
966 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
967 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
968 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
969 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
970 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
971 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
972 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
973 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
974 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
975 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
976 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
977 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
978 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
979 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
980 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
981 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
982 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
983 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
984 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
985 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
986 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996

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