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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 15
2 Field group functionality in core #647 14
3 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 13
4 Add backup and migrate functionality to core. #2409 13
5 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 13
6 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 12
7 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 10
8 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 8
9 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 7
10 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
11 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
12 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 5
13 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 4
14 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 4
15 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" from log-in, register, and password reset pages. #3309 4
16 Add a site architecture report #4691 4
17 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 4
18 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 4
19 [UX][D7] Add a 'User account: compare' visibility rule #4029 3
20 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 3
21 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
22 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 3
23 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
24 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
25 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
26 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
27 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 2
28 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
29 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
30 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
31 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
32 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 2
33 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
34 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682 2
35 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 2
36 Required revision messages #4302 2
37 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
38 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
39 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 2
40 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
41 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
42 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
43 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
44 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520 1
45 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 1
46 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862 1
47 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
48 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
49 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
50 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146 1
51 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 1
52 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
53 Add support for supplemental CSS selectors #4782 1
54 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
55 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
56 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
57 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
58 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
59 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
60 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
61 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 1
62 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
63 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
64 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for specific content type from the content type add/edit area. #2894 1
65 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
66 [D8][PS] Make config storage swappable #2277 1
67 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 1
68 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 1
69 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
70 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
71 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
72 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225 1
73 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167 1
74 Make some block settings global #3805 1
75 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 0
76 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 0
77 I don't want default content #5587 0
78 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
79 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
80 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
81 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
82 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
83 Status page: Provide information about the security coverage of the currently-installed minor version #5759
84 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
85 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
86 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
87 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
88 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
89 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
90 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
91 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
92 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
93 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
94 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
95 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
96 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
97 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
98 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
99 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
100 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347

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