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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 18
2 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 17
3 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 15
4 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 13
5 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
6 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
7 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
8 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
9 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
10 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
11 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 5
12 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 5
13 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
14 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
15 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
16 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
17 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
18 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
19 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
20 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
21 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
22 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
23 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
24 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
25 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
26 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
27 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
28 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
29 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
30 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
31 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
32 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 2
33 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
34 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
35 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
36 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
37 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
38 Required revision messages #4302 2
39 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
40 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
41 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
42 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
43 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
44 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
45 I don't want default content #5587 1
46 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
47 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
48 Make some block settings global #3805 1
49 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
50 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
51 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
52 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
53 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
54 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
55 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
56 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
57 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404 1
58 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
59 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
60 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
61 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
62 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
63 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
64 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
65 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
66 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
67 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
68 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
69 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
70 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
71 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
72 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
73 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
74 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
75 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
76 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
77 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
78 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
79 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
80 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
81 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
82 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
83 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
84 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
85 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
86 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
87 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
88 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
89 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
90 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
91 Create a printable Status Report #5821
92 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
93 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
94 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
95 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
96 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
97 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
98 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
99 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
100 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328

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