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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 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
902 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
903 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
904 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
905 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
906 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
907 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
908 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
909 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
910 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
911 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
912 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
913 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
914 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
915 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
916 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
917 Create a printable Status Report #5821
918 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
919 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
920 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
921 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
922 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
923 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
924 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
925 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
926 Menu router refactoring #2400
927 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
928 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
929 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
930 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
931 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
932 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
933 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
934 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
935 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
936 [DX] Form API: Allow number fields to specify an array of suggested values (#options) #5285
937 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
938 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
939 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
940 [UX] Add a new pageless node above the "Promoted Content" block on Home page #4849
941 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
942 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
943 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
944 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
945 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
946 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
947 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
948 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
949 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
950 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
951 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
952 Rename default Contact form category #4703
953 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
954 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
955 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
956 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
957 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
958 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
959 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
960 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
961 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
962 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
963 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
964 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
965 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
966 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
967 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
968 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
969 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
970 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
971 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
972 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
973 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
974 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
975 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
976 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
977 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
978 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
979 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
980 Disable unused layout templates #5068
981 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
982 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
983 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
984 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
985 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
986 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878

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