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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 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
7 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
8 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
9 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
10 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
11 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
12 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
13 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 5
14 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 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 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
18 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
19 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
20 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
21 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 2
22 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
23 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
24 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
25 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
26 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
27 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
28 Required revision messages #4302 2
29 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
30 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
31 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
32 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
33 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
34 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
35 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
36 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
37 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
38 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
39 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
40 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
41 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
42 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
43 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
44 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
45 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
46 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
47 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
48 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
49 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
50 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
51 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
52 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
53 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
54 I don't want default content #5587 1
55 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
56 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
57 Make some block settings global #3805 1
58 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
59 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
60 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
61 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
62 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
63 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
64 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
65 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
66 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404 1
67 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
68 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
69 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
70 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
71 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
72 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
73 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
74 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
75 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
76 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
77 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
78 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
79 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
80 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
81 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
82 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
83 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
84 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
85 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
86 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
87 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
88 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
89 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
90 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
91 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
92 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
93 Trim textfields? #6386
94 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
95 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
96 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
97 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
98 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
99 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
100 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108

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