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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
1 Field group functionality in core #647 17
2 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 17
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 15
4 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 14
5 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 14
6 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 13
7 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 12
8 Add a site architecture report #4691 7
9 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
10 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
11 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
12 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
13 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
14 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
15 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
16 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 5
17 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
18 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
19 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
20 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
21 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
22 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
23 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
24 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
25 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
26 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
27 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
28 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
29 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
30 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
31 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
32 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
33 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
34 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
35 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
36 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
37 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
38 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
39 Required revision messages #4302 2
40 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
41 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
42 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
43 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
44 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
45 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
46 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
47 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
48 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
49 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
50 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
51 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
52 Make some block settings global #3805 1
53 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
54 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
55 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
56 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
57 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
58 I don't want default content #5587 1
59 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
60 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
61 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
62 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
63 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
64 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
65 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
66 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
67 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
68 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
69 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
70 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
71 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
72 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
73 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
74 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
75 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
76 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
77 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
78 Seventy two theme #5928
79 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
80 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
81 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
82 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
83 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
84 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
85 Trim textfields? #6386
86 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
87 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
88 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
89 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
90 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
91 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
92 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
93 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
94 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
95 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
96 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
97 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
98 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
99 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
100 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180

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