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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 16
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 14
4 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 13
5 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 13
6 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 12
7 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 10
8 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 7
9 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
10 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
11 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
12 Add a site architecture report #4691 6
13 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 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 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 4
17 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
18 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 4
19 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 4
20 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
21 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
22 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
23 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
24 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
25 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 2
26 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
27 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
28 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
29 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
30 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
31 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
32 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
33 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
34 Required revision messages #4302 2
35 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
36 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
37 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
38 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
39 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
40 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
41 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
42 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
43 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
44 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
45 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
46 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 1
47 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
48 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
49 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
50 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
51 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
52 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
53 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
54 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
55 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
56 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
57 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 1
58 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
59 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
60 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
61 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
62 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
63 I don't want default content #5587 1
64 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
65 Make some block settings global #3805 1
66 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
67 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
68 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
69 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
70 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
71 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
72 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
73 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
74 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
75 Add function that returns default config #3251
76 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
77 [UX] Add information about removed modules to the uninstall page #3779
78 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
79 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
80 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
81 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
82 [UX][D8] Allow 'Content: Link' views field to just output URL #3419
83 Add global site logo token #5871
84 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
85 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
86 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
87 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
88 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
89 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
90 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
91 [PS] Set cache lifetime to 1 year for static assets #3937
92 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
93 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
94 [WP][SR] Dedicated "Privacy & security" section under "Configuration" #3624
95 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
96 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
97 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
98 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
99 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
100 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983

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