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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 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
902 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
903 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
904 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
905 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
906 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
907 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
908 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
909 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
910 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
911 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
912 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
913 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
914 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
915 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
916 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
917 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
918 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
919 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
920 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
921 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
922 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
923 Add layouts into the search index #5128
924 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
925 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
926 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
927 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
928 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
929 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
930 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
931 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
932 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
933 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
934 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
935 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
936 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
937 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
938 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
939 Better Book navigation links #4879
940 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
941 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
942 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
943 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
944 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
945 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
946 Redirects write to json files? #4001
947 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
948 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
949 uuid and entity import / export #890
950 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
951 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
952 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
953 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
954 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
955 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
956 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
957 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
958 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
959 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
960 [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
961 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
962 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
963 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
964 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
965 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
966 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
967 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
968 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
969 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
970 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
971 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
972 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
973 Custom Block contextual link #4390
974 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
975 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
976 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
977 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
978 [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
979 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
980 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
981 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
982 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474

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