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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] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
902 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
903 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
904 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
905 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
906 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
907 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
908 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
909 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
910 Create a printable Status Report #5821
911 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
912 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
913 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
914 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
915 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
916 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
917 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
918 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
919 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
920 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
921 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
922 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
923 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
924 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
925 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
926 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
927 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
928 Comment administration improvements #2919
929 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
930 Mobile first approach theme #4131
931 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
932 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
933 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
934 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
935 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
936 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
937 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
938 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
939 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
940 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
941 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
942 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
943 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
944 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
945 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
946 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
947 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
948 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
949 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
950 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
951 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
952 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
953 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
954 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
955 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
956 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
957 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
958 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
959 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
960 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
961 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
962 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
963 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
964 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
965 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
966 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
967 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
968 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
969 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
970 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
971 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
972 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
973 Allow regions titles #2647
974 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
975 [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
976 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
977 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
978 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
979 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
980 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
981 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
982 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
983 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
984 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
985 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
986 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501

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