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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 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
902 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
903 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
904 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
905 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
906 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
907 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
908 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
909 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
910 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
911 [D8] Autosave content #3426
912 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
913 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
914 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
915 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
916 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
917 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
918 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
919 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
920 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
921 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
922 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
923 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
924 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
925 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
926 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
927 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
928 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
929 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
930 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
931 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
932 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
933 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
934 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
935 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
936 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
937 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
938 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
939 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
940 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
941 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
942 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
943 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
944 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
945 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
946 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
947 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
948 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
949 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
950 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
951 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
952 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
953 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
954 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
955 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
956 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
957 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
958 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
959 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
960 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
961 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
962 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
963 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
964 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
965 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
966 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
967 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
968 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
969 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
970 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
971 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
972 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
973 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
974 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
975 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
976 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
977 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
978 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
979 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
980 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
981 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
982 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
983 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
984 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
985 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
986 Create a printable Status Report #5821

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