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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] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 13
5 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 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 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
9 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 7
10 Add a site architecture report #4691 6
11 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
12 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 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 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
16 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
17 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 4
18 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 4
19 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
20 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
21 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
22 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
23 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 3
24 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
25 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
26 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
27 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
28 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 2
29 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 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 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 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
36 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
37 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
38 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
39 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
40 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
41 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
42 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
43 Make some block settings global #3805 1
44 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
45 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
46 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
47 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
48 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
49 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 1
50 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 1
51 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 1
52 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
53 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
54 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
55 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
56 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
57 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
58 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
59 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
60 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
61 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
62 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
63 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
64 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
65 I don't want default content #5587 1
66 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
67 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
68 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
69 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
70 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
71 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
72 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
73 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
74 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
75 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
76 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
77 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
78 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
79 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
80 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
81 Rename default Contact form category #4703
82 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
83 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
84 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
85 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
86 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
87 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
88 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
89 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
90 Telemetry: Collect Internet Status At Time Of Install #5222
91 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
92 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
93 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
94 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
95 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
96 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
97 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
98 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
99 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
100 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993

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