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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 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 17
2 Field group functionality in core #647 17
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 15
4 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 14
5 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 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 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
11 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
12 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
13 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
14 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
15 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
16 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
17 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
18 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 4
19 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
20 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
21 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
22 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
23 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
24 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
25 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
26 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
27 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
28 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
29 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
30 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
31 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
32 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
33 Required revision messages #4302 2
34 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
35 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
36 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
37 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
38 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
39 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
40 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
41 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
42 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
43 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
44 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
45 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
46 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
47 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
48 Make some block settings global #3805 1
49 I don't want default content #5587 1
50 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
51 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
52 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
53 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
54 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
55 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
56 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
57 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
58 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
59 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
60 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
61 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
62 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
63 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
64 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
65 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
66 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
67 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
68 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
69 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
70 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
71 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
72 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
73 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
74 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
75 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
76 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
77 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
78 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
79 Consolidate user links on admin bar #4643
80 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
81 Basis: Update box-sizing method #4208
82 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
83 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
84 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
85 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
86 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
87 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
88 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
89 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
90 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
91 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
92 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
93 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
94 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Collapsible blocks #3995
95 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
96 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
97 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
98 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
99 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
100 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004

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